Developer Scrum Team

Request for Proposals (RFP) – Public Notice – RFP 2021-NB-004 Developer Scrum Team  About Farm Credit Canada (FCC): FCC is Canada’s leading agriculture and food lender, with a healthy loan portfolio of more than $41 billion. Our employees are dedicated to the future of Canadian agriculture and food. We provide flexible, competitively priced financing, management software, information and knowledge specifically designed for the agriculture and food industry. As a self-sustaining Crown corporation, we provide an appropriate return to our shareholder, and reinvest our profits back into the industry and communities we serve. For more information, visit fcc.ca.  RFP Scope:  FCC’s Information Technology (IT) team is accountable to enable and deliver IT Services to FCC’s community and enterprise leaders to enable execution excellence. To effectively meet its business objectives, FCC occasionally augments its internal staff. FCC requires a strong Developer Scrum Team to work collaboratively with internal FCC resources as part of the larger plan to modernize our applications. The successful Proponent will provide an intact, existing Scrum Team to work collaboratively with, and as part of, a larger team within FCC.  FCC has a suite of applications that are either used internally by FCC employees and contractors or externally by customers. FCC intends to modernize those applications using a phased approach with initial work scheduled to begin in June 2021. Currently, the majority of the applications are Thin Client based and FCC intends to make them Web based.  RFP Schedule:

RFP issue date: Apr 1, 2021  Vendor questions accepted until: Apr 8, 2021 at 2:00PM*  RFP closing date and time: May 3, 2021 at 2:00 PM*

*Central Standard Time (CST)- Saskatchewan, Canada Time zone  RFP Process Considerations:   Vendors should note that:

this opportunity notice references a non-binding, competitive RFP, not a call for tenders. FCC is not obligated to proceed with the work described in the RFP scope, and may cancel the RFP at any time.  FCC’s procurement process allows for negotiation between FCC and one or more vendors, prior to awarding a contract.

Requesting the RFP Document: Capable vendors who are interested in receiving a copy of the RFP document are to contact: Nichole Bourgeois  Procurement and Vendor Manager  Farm Credit Canada procurement@fcc.ca  Note: Vendors do not receive the RFP document by registering for the list of interested suppliers (“LIS”) on buyandsell.ca. Vendors must request the RFP document through FCC’s designated RFP contact.