Printing/Warehousing, & Distribution Service

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: Yes Nature of Requirements:

M7594-161345/A - Printing/Warehousing, & Distribution Services

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has a requirement for a Contractor to provide complete logistics services for the supply of a variety of RCMP-BPAS forms and RCMP-NCS publications, stationery items and specialty items to RCMP Clients.

The Contractor is responsible for the complete supply chain process of printing, warehousing, inventory control, order processing, order fulfillment, distribution, tracking, invoicing and reporting of activity.

The Contractor is solely responsible for the costs of purchasing the inventory from the previous contractor. The Contractor must recover their costs, in accordance with Annex B: Basis of Payment, upon sale of printed items to RCMP Clients across Canada. The selling price for these items is based on the net purchase price approved by the RCMP plus the Total Percentage Over the Production Cost as specified in the Annex ?B? Basis of Payment.

The Contractor is solely responsible for the costs of replenishing the inventory and may only recover their costs upon sale of printed items to RCMP Clients across Canada.

The Contract is in effect for a period of from the date of award to December 31, 2017 inclusively with seven (7) option periods of one (1) year each and the option to extend the contract by an additional four (4) months for transition.

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.

The Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), applies to this procurement.

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

Any resulting contract may be used for delivery requirements to locations across Canada, including those within Comprehensive Land Claims Settlement Areas.

Evaluation Procedures

(a) Bids will be assessed in accordance with the entire requirement of the bid solicitation including the technical and financial evaluation criteria.

(b) An evaluation team composed of representatives of Canada will evaluate the bids.

The Mandatory Requirements are

M.1 Bidders must provide the following information indicating where the following printing functions are carried out:

Print Production of

M.1.1 multi-part forms; M.1.2 communications and stationery products such as single sheet products, multi-colour foldout brochures and publications; M.1.3 printed promotional items such as tattoos; and M.1.4envelopes

Bidders must indicate which of the listed (M.1.1 - M.1.4) printing functions are completed by sub-contractors and which are completed in the bidder’s facility(ies).

For work completed in the Bidder’s facility (facility[ies] that are ownedby same legal entity as the bidder and/or joint venture partner[s]), bidders must provide:

1. the facility name(s); 2. facility location(s); and 3. the relationship to the bidder.

Failure by the Bidder to provide any of the required informationinthe proposal will be considered as not meeting the mandatory criterion.

M.2 Bidders must provide the following information indicating where the warehousing and order fulfillment functions are carried out:

1. the facility name(s); 2. facility location(s); and 3. the relationship to the Bidder.

M.3 The Bidder must identify an individual, and their position within the firm, who will act as the Contractor Project Manager assigned tothis contract and the single point of contact to manage the implementation and on-going provision of the required services during the period of the Contract.

This designated Project Manager must have recently (within the last five [5] years prior to the closing date of the RFP) worked as the Project Manager fora contract requiring all of the following:

1. Warehousing and inventory management of a variety of printed items; 2. Contractor managed inventory replenishment of the printed items completed using both internal resources and sub-contractors; 3. Orderingby multiple ordering authorities; 4. Providing inventory management information to a designated or designated client authorities; and 5. Custom order fulfillment with delivery by Canada Post and other carriers.

Point Rated Technical Criteria

Only those proposals which first meet the Mandatory Requirements will be considered in the second stage of the evaluation, the Technical Evaluation.

Bidders are instructed to address eachrequirement in sufficient depth to permit a complete analysis andassessment by the Evaluation Team. Simply repeating the statement contained in the bid solicitation is not sufficient.

The point rated technical evaluation criteria are included in Annex ?E?.

Basis of Selection

To be declared responsive, a bidmust

(a) comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation; and (b) meet all mandatory technicalevaluation criteria; and (c) obtain the required minimum of 75 percent overallof the points for the technical evaluation criteria which are subjectto point rating.

Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) will be declared non-responsive. Neither the responsive bid that receives the highest number of points nor the one that proposed the lowest price will necessarily be accepted. The responsive bidwith the lowest evaluated price per point will be recommended for award of a contract.

Delivery Date: 09/07/2016

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.