data processing, variable printing and mailing of T5007 tax slips

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods and/or services Competitive Procurement Strategy: Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Nature of Requirements:

data processing, variable printing and mailing of T5007 tax slips

B8142-170070/A Werk(cw), Janet Telephone No. - (613) 998-3968 ( ) janet.werk@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has a Resettlement Assistance Program which helps refugees once they arrive in Canada. Refugees receive a cheque once a month to help pay for food, incidentals, shelter and other miscellaneous expenses. These costs are taxable therefore; CIC has a requirement to print out and mail a T5007, Statement of Benefits to each refugee that received monthly income support during the calendar year. These T5007 forms must be printed and mailed out by the 3rd week of February.

The Contract will be in effect for a period of one year (1) from the date of award of Contract with the irrevocable option to extend the Contract by three (3) additional one (1) year periods.

There are security requirements associated with this requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security, 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.

The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).

This procurement is subject to the Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement(s) Basis of Selection: A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price will be recommended for award of a contract.

M.1 CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

The Bidder must demonstrate that it has been contractually bound to an external client (outside of the Bidder's own company) or to external clients* for two (2) contracts to provide data processing and variable printing with insertion into envelopes and delivery to the closest Canada Post outlet.

The Contracts must have been started or completed after April 01, 2012.

*During the evaluation no corporate experience gained through internal clients will be accepted or reviewed.

The Bidder must demonstrate that it has contracted or has been contractually bound to an external client or to external clients (outside of the Bidder's own company) for two (2) contracts to provide the services described in the Statement of Work. These two (2) contracts must have been undertaken within the last four (4) years prior to the closing date of this RFP. When combined, these two (2) contracts must, at a minimum, include all of the following services (M.1.a - M.1.e):

M.1.a Data Processing - Preparation of data sets for a minimum of 18,500 records for variable printing consisting of multiple outputs requiring the merging of static and variable information; M.1.b Preparation of data sets containing a minimum of 18,500 records for mailing including sortation for incentive lettermail presort and matching of multiple variable items; M.1.c Variable printing - Printing of multiple outputs requiring printing of variable information; M.1.d Mailing preparation with sortation and handling in accordance with Canada Post requirements for incentive lettermail presort, matching and insertion of variable print items, selective insertion of multiple additional inserts and delivery to Canada Post; M.1.e At least one (1) of the two (2) contracts must have included a requirement for the Contractor to receive supplied components for printing electronically to the Contractor’s secure FTP site as well as uploading final PDFs to said FTP for the Client to retrieve material i.e. PDFs).

Reponses format The Bidder must provide the following detailed information for each contract as it relates to M.1.a, M.1.b, M.1.c, M.1.d, and M.1.e to demonstrate that the Bidder meets M.1

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.