Work Alone Protection Services – (WAPS) for the Northern AB & NWT Area Parole District

Staff Safety System – Work Alone Protection services (WAPS) for the Northern Alberta/North West Territories Parole District. This requirement is for: The Correctional Service of Canada, Northern Alberta, and North-west Territories Parole District. Trade agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)/Canada-Peru, Canada-Colombia and/or Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreements. Tendering procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid. Competitive Procurement Strategy: compliant bid with the lowest price per point. 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. There is a requirement to have an effective system in place to monitor parole staff completing community visits. An automated system has proven the most effective means of doing this. Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) AB/NT District intends to establish a contract for the provision of Work Alone Protection System services (WAPS) for the benefit of individuals employed by CSC in locations across the Alberta District. Objectives: The AB/NT District requires a Work Alone Protection Service (WAPS) for approximately 100 employees of CSC who conduct community visits with conditionally released offenders and/or their families, employers, friends, acquaintances. The WAPS system must be compatible with the current government blackberry devices in use without requiring modifications. The system must be easy to use and is required 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Deliverables: Provide a WAPS system that allows CSC employees to leave a message as to their location when they conduct community visits with conditionally released offenders and/or their families, employers, friends and acquaintances. This system will produce an alarm if a community visit is not ended in the system within a specified time period.  Expected Delivery Date: April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2020 File Number: 57101-17-2397211 Contracting Authority: Claudette Chabot 3247 Faithfull Avenue Saskatoon SK, S7K 8H6 Telephone number: 306-659-9255 Facsimile number: 306-659-9317 E-mail: 501Contracts@csc-scc.gc.ca NOTE TO BIDDERS: Bidders can obtain the complete statement of work and evaluation criteria by ordering the solicitation document and associated documents from Buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders. The Crown reserves the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement. Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada (English or French). Given the nature of the requirements, proposals submitted by such means as facsimile or electronic mail will not be accepted. After contract award, bidders may request a debriefing on the results of the bid solicitation process. Bidders should make the request to the Contracting Authority within fifteen (15) working days of receipt of the results of the bid solicitation process. The debriefing may be in writing, by telephone or in person. The Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME) offers seminars to businesses interested in learning how to sell goods and services to the Government of Canada. The seminars are FREE. Topics include: ? Overview of the federal government contracting process; ? Searching for opportunities on the Buy and Sell - Tenders website; ? Bidding on opportunities; ? Registering in supplier databases. The full schedule of seminars can be found on the Buyandsell.gc.ca website, under Event Calendar (https://buyandsell.gc.ca/event-calendar).