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Create free accountTrade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid Attachment: None Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Nature of Requirements: This bid solicitation cancels and supersedes previous bid solicitation number 47104-136855/A dated April 2, 2014, with a closing of May 6, 2014 at 2:00 PM EDT. A debriefing or feedback session will be provided upon request to bidders/offerors/suppliers who bid on the previous solicitation.
ONLINE RESEARCH DATABASE
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has an ongoing and evident need to obtain accurate and up-to-date factual data, and historical information pertaining to entities (Canadian, foreign, public, private, organizational and individual) and their functional, financial and relational activities. CBSA also requires information regarding international events, and local news from around the world in relation to security and public safety, public records, legal proceedings, business activities and financial data.
Such information is for use in decision making or support in decision-making by CBSA staff. Information used may be subject for review in legal proceedings and must therefore be obtained from reputable and reliable sources. Accurate, comprehensive and trusted data is required to minimize risks when decision-making in a 'real-time' environment with short response deadlines.
This requirement is subject to the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).
To be considered responsive, a bid must meet all of the following mandatory evaluation criteria. Bids not meeting all of these mandatory requirements will be given no further consideration. Consequently, Bidders are encouraged to supply as much information as necessary to demonstrate clearly that the mandatory requirements have been met.
The Bidder must provide a free trial period for one (1) month access to three (3) concurrent users in order for evaluators to validate the claims of the bidder. The trial accounts must be provided with the bid and be operational at the closing date of this Request for proposal. M1. The database must allow users to change passwords as required. M2. The database must allow users to retrieve forgotten passwords.
M3. The database must include a feature allowing users to set display language (English or French). M4. 90% of the content of the articles must be "full content", rather than "abstracts". M5. The contents available in the database must include Canadian and foreign content (both archived and current articles and reports)
M6. The contents available in the database must include vernacular material from foreign sources, along with translation tools to make all the material automatically available in either French or English.
M7. The database's search engine must be able to conduct a search within at least 40,000 online documents and a minimum of 34 years of archival information.
M8. The proposed database must provide full-text content from the following news sources:
Xinhua News Fars News Agency African Press Organization
M9. In addition to the news sources outlined in M8, the proposed database must provide full-text content from 25 of the following 30 news sources:
Africa News Agency France Presse Al-Ahram Weekly Al Arabiya.net All Africa Web Publications BBC Monitoring Bloomberg China Daily European Edition CQ Congressional Press Releases Deutsche Presses - Agentur Hindustan Times IHS Global Insight Intelligence Online Interfax News Agency ITAR-TASS Jane's Defence Weekly Mehr News Agency (MNA) RIA Novosti South Asian Times South China Morning Post States News Service The Christian Science Monitor The Guardian The Independent The Japan News The Jerusalem Post The New York Times The Times of India The Washington Post United Press International
M10. The proposed database must have the capability to conduct advanced searches in Boolean language.
M11. The proposed database must have the capability to use a variety of "filters" to limit the search criteria or the search results, such as date filters or country filters.
M12. The Bidder must provide a free trial period for one (1) month access to three (3) concurrent users in order for evaluators to validate the claims of the bidder. If Canada determines that the Bidder has not provided operational trial accounts at bid closing, Canada will allow the Bidder the opportunity to submit username and passwords to access the free trial. Failure to provide such access and associated information within the time frame provided, will result in the bid being declared non-responsive.
M13. The bidder must be able to provide group training to its database users on a yearly basis for up to 38 database users.
Point-Rated Evaluation Criteria are included in Annex D of the bid solicitation.
To be declared responsive, a bid must: (a) comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation; (b) meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; (c) obtain a minimum overall score of seventy (70%) percent of the points value allocated for the rated criteria. The rating is performed on a scale of 33 points value. Proposals not meeting a) or b) or c) above will be given no further consideration. The lowest compliant cost-per-point proposal will be recommended for award of a contract. Where two or more responsive proposals achieve an identical score, the proposal achieving the highest number of rated points (by calculating the sum of all the awarded points) will be recommended for award of a contract.
Rosella Rinaldo Supply Specialist
Public Works and Government Services Canada Acquisitions Branch Commercial and Consumer Products Directorate - PR Division Place du Portage, Phase III, 6A2 11 Laurier Street Gatineau, Québec K1A OS5
Telephone: (819) 956-0001 E-mail: rosella.rinaldo@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
Not stated in the notice: procurement type, procurement method, selection criteria, region of delivery, region of opportunity, expected contract period, end user
No amendments observed.
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