PROSERVICES

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ProServices 2013

The purpose of this notice is to advise suppliers that the ProServices Request for Supply Arrangement closing date has been extended to 15 July 2013 to provide additional time to respond to Suppliers' concerns raised at the May 30th Bidders' Conferences.

We are revising the Request for Supply Arrangement - under Part 3 Arrangement Preparation Instructions, under Section 1: Technical Arrangements, in end of paragraph "For existing TSPS and TSBIPS Suppliers (i.e. grandfathering), insert after the last sentence the following changes:

A. A proposal submitted for the recent Task Based Informatics Professional Services (TBIPS) and/or Task and Solutions Professional Services - task based only (TSPS) re-competitions [aka refresh], may include additional categories that are not yet in the Centralized Professional Services System (CPSS). Bidders responding to ProServices are to reflect this information in ProServices under "Grandfathered", . As part of the evaluations for ProServices, verification of all information (certification and categories) for "grandfathering" will be carried out based on the ongoing review of information in CPSS.

B. A "Grandfathered" Bidder for ProServices, is a Bidder who has completed the "Grandfather" certification and identified the categories to be grandfathered and submitted the required documentation to the Bid Receiving Unit by the closing date/time. The categories reflected by a "Grandfathered" Bidder for ProServices are the categories which are contained in the Bidder's response (through the Data Collection Component [DCC]) to TBIPS and/or TSPS. A "Grandfathered" Bidder for ProServices can also identify a new category or new categories; to do so, the "Grandfathered" Bidder must select the necessary certifications in the DCC and provide the category substantiation for each new category. The "Grandfathered" Bidder is not required to re-submit certifications previously provided to the recent TBIPS and/or TSPS re-competition, as this information will be part of the verification of all information (certification and categories) for "grandfathering" carried out for ProServices.

C. In addition to completing the required information in the DCC under Category Substantiation, a reference letter can be submitted, and indicated in the Cross Reference Field that it is being submitted by hard copy. Suppliers still need to complete the "Category References" section. It is noted this alters the instructions under Categories Summaries, item 1.

Instructions for the use of the DCC are available on the CPSS web site at: http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/spc-cps/spc-cps-eng.html .

Security Requirement There is a security requirement associated with the requirements of the Supply Arrangement. The Supplier must hold, at minimum, a valid Designated Organization Screening (DOS) issued by the Canadian Industrial Security Directorate (CISD), by issuance of the Supply Arrangement. The Supply Arrangement Authority may verify the Supplier's security clearance with the CISD of PWGSC at any time during the period of the Supply Arrangement.

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.