Management and Coordination of the Indigenous Forestry Initiative’s Expert Review Panel

By means of the RFP, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is seeking proposals from bidders for the objective to hire a Contractor whose main function will be to recruit, assign and supervise work, facilitate consensus-based decisions by convened Expert Review Panels for the IFI, and to document and report on their findings and recommendations on the merits and risks of each assessed application.  Specifically, the Contractor will:

Create and maintain a pool of SMEs with varying subject matter expertise and other criteria detailed below (Section 4.1 and Annexes 1 and 2); Coordinate the participation of SMEs in ERPs; Facilitate consensus discussions of SMEs in ERPs; Document and report on each ERP’s consensus findings and recommendations to NRCan Poll and report to NRCan lessons learned from each successive ERP.

There are security requirements associated with this requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security, Financial and Other Requirements, and Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses. For more information on personnel and organization security screening or security clauses, Bidders should refer to the Industrial Security Program (ISP) of Public Works and Government Services Canada (http://ssi-iss.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/index-eng.html) website. This bid solicitation is to establish a contract with task authorizations for the delivery of the requirement detailed in the bid solicitation to the Identified Users across Canada, excluding locations within Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, and Labrador that are subject to Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements (CLCAs). Any requirement for deliveries within CLCAs areas within Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, or Labrador will have to be treated as a separate procurement, outside the resulting contract. 1.3 Debriefings Bidders may request a debriefing on the results of the bid solicitation process. Bidders should make the request to the Contracting Authority within 15 working days from receipt of the results of the bid solicitation process. The debriefing will be done in writing, by email. 1.4 Set-aside under the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business This procurement is set aside under the federal government Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business. For more information on Aboriginal business requirements of the Set-aside Program for Aboriginal Business see Annex 9.4 of the Supply Manual. This procurement is set aside from the international trade agreements under the provision each has for measures with respect to Aboriginal peoples or for set-asides for small and minority businesses. Further to Article 800 of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), CFTA does not apply to this procurement.