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Create free accountTrade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada-Peru FTA/Canada-Colombia FTA Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid Attachment: None Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Nature of Requirements: BID SOLICITATION FOR SOFTWARE SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE STUDIES
1. Description of the requirement This bid solicitation is being issued to satisfy the requirement of Defence Research and Development Canada, Valcartier (the "Client") for Software support and development services for electro-optical system performance studies. The objectives of the work carried out under this contract are as follows: Ensure availability and operability of software used for studies and field testing. Provide technical support for software applications during field testing. Perform improvement, maintenance, upgrading and documentation work on existing software applications. Develop and document new software applications for interfacing and controlling electronic and electro-optical systems, acquiring and recording data, and processing and analyzing information. Integrate software components into current and future equipment. Plan and coordinate software development project management activities. Develop the digital models required for simulation of the systems studied. The period of the resulting contract is from the date of the contract award to June 30, 2017. The estimated amount of funding available for this contract (GST/HST extra) is 800,000.00$ CAD. Any intellectual property rights arising from the performance of the Work under the resulting contract will belong to Canada. There is a security requirement associated with this requirement. The requirement is subject to the provisions of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), the Canada-Peru Free trade Agreement, the Canada-Colombia Free trade Agreement and the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).
This requirement is subject to the Controlled Goods Program.
2. Work location
Given the nature of the equipment in use (military systems, controlled goods, fixed and mobile laboratories and shared equipment), the main part of the work must be carried out on-site at DRDC Valcartier. However, the parts of the software development work not requiring constant use of equipment may be performed off the DRDC Valcartier site. If the nature of the work allows it to be performed off-site, these aspects will be set out in the task authorization. For the work of task 2 (software support during field testing), the test site may be outside Quebec or even Canada. This information will be set out in the task authorization. 3. List of the mandatory technical criteria
1. Labour category «Software Architect» 1.1 All the proposed resources in the «Software Architect » labour category must, at a minimum, hold a bachelor's degree in software engineering or computer engineering or electrical engineering.
1.2 All of the proposed resources in the « Software Architect » labour category must, at a minimum, have the equivalent of 12 months of full-time experience over the last five years exclusively dedicated to designing software application architecture or using UML modeling language or applying a software development process that is recognized in the industry. 1.3 The bidder must propose a minimum of two resources in the labour category «Software Architect».
2. Labour Labour category « Software Developer » 2.1 All of the proposed resources in the « Software Developer » labour category must, at a minimum, hold a bachelor's degree in computer engineering or in electrical engineering or in computer science or software engineering. 2.2 All of the proposed resources in the « Software Developer » labour category must, at a minimum, have the equivalent of 12 months of full-time experience over the last five years exclusively dedicated to developing software applications using C++ programming language. 2.3 The bidder must propose a minimum of three resources in the labour category «Software Developer ».
3. Labour category «Project Manager» 3.1 All of the proposed resources in the «Project Manager» labour category must, at a minimum, hold a bachelor's degree in pure or applied science or administration, or a bachelor's degree in another discipline combined with a complementary degree (e.g. undergraduated certificate or graduate certificate or master's degree) in administration or project management. 3.2 All of the proposed resources in the «Project Manager» labour category must have had a minimum of 35 hours of formal training in project management (such training could be a part of a university program or be given by a private company). 3.3 All of the proposed resources in the «Project Manager» labour category must, at a minimum, have the equivalent of 12 months of full-time experience over the last five years exclusively dedicated to managing software development projects. 3.4 The bidder must propose a minimum of two resources in the labour category «Project Manager».
1. TECHNICAL PROPOSAL 2. MANAGEMENT 3. RESOURCE'S EXPERIENCE 4. COMPANY'S EXPERIENCE
5. Basis of Selection - Lowest Evaluated Price Per Point
(a) comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation; (b) meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria; (c) obtain the required minimum points for each criterion and each group of criteria with a pass mark; (d) obtain the required minimum points overall for the technical evaluation criteria which are subject to point rating.
Bids not meeting (a) or (b) or (c) or (d) 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 bid with the lowest evaluated price per point will be recommended for award of a contract. The evaluated price per point will be determined by dividing the evaluated price of the bid by the number of points obtained for the point rated technical evaluation criteria.
In the event that two or more responsive bids have the same lowest evaluated price per point, the responsive bid which obtained the highest number of points overall for the point rated technical evaluation criteria will be recommended for award of a contract.
This PWGSC office provide procurement services in French and English / Ce bureau de TPSGC fournit des services d'achat en français et en anglais 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.
Not stated in the notice: procurement type, procurement method, selection criteria, region of delivery, region of opportunity, expected contract period, end user
The source reports 3 amendments. CanPursue observed 1 of them with dates.
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