RISO: OPTICAL SERVICES

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AMENDMENT NO. 4 The Request for Regional Individual Standing Offer (RISO) has been amended. This amendment is essentially raised to update the annexes in the RISO with some information that was given to offerors in Amendment no. 2. The Notice of proposed procurement has not been amended.

AMENDMENT NO. 3 The Request for Regional Individual Standing Offer (RISO) document has been amended. The Notice of proposed procurement has not been amended. Amendment no. 4 will be forthcoming to essentially update the annexes in the RISO with some information that was given to offerors in Amendment no. 2.

AMENDMENT NO.2 This Request for Regional Individual Standing Offer has been extended until December 11, 2015 at 14h00.

The Request for Regional Individual Standing Offer document has been changed.

AMENDMENT NO.1 This Request for Regional Individual Standing Offer has been extended until December 4, 2015 at 14h00.

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Reissue of Bid Solicitation This bid solicitation cancels and supersedes previous bid solicitation number W3380-14K029/B dated September 22,2015 with a closing of October 19,2015 at14h00.A debriefing or feedback session will beprovided upon requestto offerors who bid on the previous solicitation.

Required Optical services for the Department of National Defence(DND), St Jean Garrison at St Jean-sur-Richelieu Qc, the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School and for the Canadian Forces authorized personnel and civilian eligible personnel.

These services must include a wide variety of evyewear and optical services such as prescription glasses, maintaining, adjusting andrepairing glasses among other services. Details in the Request for Individual Standing Offer.

The period of the Standing Offer is from the date of issue until 1 year . Moreover, the Standing Offer will allow Canada the right toextend its use for two additional periods of 12 months each, for the same conditionsstipulated in this Request for Standing Offer.

The Crown reserves the right to issue one Standing Offer for this requirement.

The provision of eyewear and optical services must be available 'on-site' and/or 'off-site'.

'On-site' service means a location within the DND base site that the Offeror can or will use for displaying frames and providing services. Service hours may vary from 07:00 in the morning toup to 22:00 at night from Monday to Friday. On weekends, 07:00 to 16:00 could be required.

'Off-site' means a location where services are provided outside the Department of National Defence base, St-JeanGarrison, 41 Canadian Forces Health Services Center (Medical clinic) from which the Offeror must use to display frames and provide services, and which must be within 20 minutes by car, calculated from the gate at the main entrance of the base whilst obeying all traffic signals and speed limits during the trip, except in adverse weather conditions. The daysand hours of service will be normal business hours at that location. The facility must be a recognizable point of service like any other optician's store.

Quantity: Various Delivery: On and if andwhenneeded basis 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.