COMMUNITY NETWORK CASEWORKER TRAINING

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This requirement is for: The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) – Quebec Home

Trade agreement: This procurement is not subject to any trade agreement.

Tendering procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid.

Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest priced compliant bid.

Set-aside under the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business: This procurement is not subject to any set-asides for Aboriginal Suppliers.

Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: This procurement is not subject to a Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement.

Security Requirements: This contract includes security requirements.

Nature of Requirements: The following is a summary of the statement of work for this requirement.

The role of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is to administer sentences of a term of two (2) years or more imposed by the courts. In connection with this role and to enhance public safety, the CSC has six (6) strategic priorities, in particular, the safe transition and management of eligible offenders in the community, the safety of staff and offenders in our institutions and in the community and maintaining productive relationships with various partners, caseworkers and other parties concerned with public safety.

Thus, our organization must enlist the participation of the community through community partners and organizations concerned with public safety. By offering programs and support services, partners and organizations will allow caseworkers to help offenders so that they can maintain their life choices as law-abiding citizens. The complexity and diversity of clientele require CSC to offer ongoing training to various partners and to ensure that these partners, who are working for public safety, maintain a common and structured approach.

Objectives

In light of the above, this call for tenders will have coordination, planning and provision of training for caseworkers from organizations involved in the criminal justice process with clientele under a federal sentence of incarceration in the Quebec region. The call for tenders must also include administrative costs.

Scope

The work will be carried out from contract award to September 30th, 2015 inclusively, with the possibility of renewal of three (3) periods of twelve (12) months each.

Deliverables

Every three months, the Contractor must provide the list of training sessions scheduled for the next three-(3) month period, including the date, the title of the training session, the names of the instructors, and the location where the training will be offered. The Contractor must ensure the coordination and administrative services regarding the basic training requested and required by the primary workers involved with clientele under a federal warrant to meet the CSC's needs and expectations. Thus, it will have to be able to offer the following training to the caseworkers identified: • Intervention in a crisis situation; • Interventions related to social reintegration; • Media spokesperson; • The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA) • Mental health intervention; • Reality therapy; • Intervention with non-voluntary individuals; • Attachment intervention; • Dealing with manipulation; • Short, solution-based therapy sessions; • Crisis prevention. • And all other training judged necessary by the contractor.

File Number: 21301-14-1939722

Contracting Authority: Manon Paulin, Contracting and Procurement Regional Officer Telephone number: 450-661-9550, ext.: 3912 Facsimile number: 450-664-6626 E-mail: Manon.Paulin@csc-scc.gc.ca

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