CARM Solution

Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with Peru/Colombia/Panama Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid Competitive Procurement Strategy: N/A - P&A/LOI Only Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Nature of Requirements: Letter of Interest (LOI) for the CBSA Assessment and Revenue Management (CARM) Project CBSA is the second largest revenue collector for the Government of Canada, next to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Due to obsolete and not-integrated accounting systems, the CBSA has difficulty obtaining accurate, timely, complete and reliable financial information to fulfill its reporting responsibilities to key stakeholders. There exists, accordingly, an overwhelming need for the CBSA to manage and account for its revenues more efficiently and effectively, as well to modernize its systems and processes to meet the financial processing needs of its clients and stakeholders. To fill this need, the CBSA Assessment and Revenue Management (CARM) Project was put in place. It will modernize the systems and processes that support the assessment and collection of revenue from importers, and for reporting on revenue information and trade data. The CARM Project initiative will support a number of business improvements needed to address inefficiencies with current systems and processes and also meet key Government of Canada (GoC) objectives for "red tape" reduction and regulatory reform. The CBSA will be seeking a Supplier to provide a solution to modernize the above-mentioned systems and processes and support the required business improvements. More information regarding the CARM Project requirements are provided under Annex A of this LOI. The outcomes of this sourcing process is to establish that an industry vendor can do the work requested and has a value proposition consistent with the CARM project expectations. It is expected that the Supplier will: · Design, build and deploy the CARM solution across people, process and technology with quality, cost and schedule certainty; Pending evaluation by CBSA and through consultative input from Industry during this procurement process, the Supplier may: · Manage and support the CARM solution with a Service Level Agreement (SLA) based, multi-year services arrangement with clearly defined exit capability; and · Provide ongoing transformation/innovation capability. The CBSA will: · Retain ownership of strategic direction, business requirements and architecture control; and · Implement a service delivery model supported by the required capabilities and organization to achieve the intended value. This LOI is to initiate engagement with industry and seek interest from potential suppliers in participating in an information session (Industry Day) and subsequent one-on-one industry meetings. The content of this LOI is intended to provide industry with initial context and details pertaining to the CBSA 's requirement. For the purposes of this LOI, the target audience is potential suppliers of the solution. The completed Annex F (Questions to Industry) must be submitted to the Contracting Authority at marc.a.aubin@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca, no later than the 25th of June 2015, as specified in the LOI amendment 006. Furthermore, registration to the One-on-One meetings must also be requested through the Contract Authority no later than the 25th of June 2015 at marc.a.aubin@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca, as specified in the LOI amendment 006. Note to Interested Suppliers, this is not a bid solicitation and a contract will not result from this request. PWGSC Contracting Authority Marc Aubin Supply Team Leader Public Works and Government Services Canada Acquisitions Branch 11 Laurier Street, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0S5 Phone number: 819-934-1436 E-mail = marc.a.aubin@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

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