Parks Canada Visitor Experience Strategy – Request for Supply Arrangement

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Parks Canada Visitor Experience Strategy – Request for Supply Arrangement

REQUIREMENT

Provide planning, facilitation, and writing services for site-specific Visitor Experience Strategies (VES) at National Parks, National Historic Sites, National Marine Conservation Areas or National Urban Parks either in part or in full. The VES planning, facilitation, and writing service will:

Help the client create a compelling visitor experience offer for its target markets. Enable the client to meet revenue targets, attendance targets, and measurable performance outcomes. Be based on Parks Canada’s established VES methodology. Contracts resulting from the SA will typically range anywhere between $1,000.00 up to a maximum of $500,000.00 (HST included).

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).

The Request for Supply Arrangements (RFSA) is to establish supply arrangements for the delivery of the requirement detailed in the RFSA 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 to locations within CLCAs areas within Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, or Labrador will have to be treated as a separate procurement, outside of the resulting supply arrangements.

On-going Opportunity for Qualification - *** OPEN TENDER WILL BE CLOSING AS OF JANUARY 1, 2026 ***

A Notice will be posted for the duration of the arrangement on the Government Electronic Tendering Service (GETS) to allow new Suppliers to become qualified. Existing qualified Suppliers, who have been issued a supply arrangement, will not be required to submit a new arrangement.

Arrangements may be submitted at any time, however, due to the resources required to evaluate the arrangements, Canada has reserved the right to conduct the evaluation of arrangements in cycles, no less than quarterly. The schedule below outlines the closing dates for each quarterly evaluation.

RFSA Evaluation Schedule - Quarterly Evaluation Periods

March 30 at 02:00 pm Eastern Time June 30 at 02:00 pm Eastern Time September 30 at 02:00 pm Eastern Time December 30 at 02:00 pm Eastern Time

Bids must be submitted on or before the quarterly refresh dates.

ENQUIRIES

All enquiries of a technical and contractual nature are to be submitted to the Contracting Authority.

Enquiries regarding this bid must be submitted in writing and should be received no later than seven (7) calendar days prior to the date set for the closing to allow sufficient time to provide a response. Enquiries received after that time may result in an answer NOT being provided.

INFORMATION

National Parks Regulations require that all work is to be performed in accordance with the ordinances, laws, rules and regulations set out in the National Park Act.

Bidders that consider themselves qualified to provide this Work and intend to submit bids on this project should obtain documents from the Government Electronic Tendering Service through the Government of Canada tendering service at https://canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-opportunities. Addenda, when issued, will be available from the Government of Canada tendering service. Bidders that elect to base their bids on documents obtained from other sources do so at their own risk. Late submissions will not be considered.

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement. Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.