ESAFE REPLACEMENT RFI

Trade Agreement: NONE Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid Attachment: None Competitive Procurement Strategy: N/A - P&A/LOI Only Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Nature of Requirements: Background:

The currently deployed eSafe product provides content filtering, data control and data leak prevention (DLP) for traffic through a network boundary. This includes web (web security gateway) and email (mail security gateway) traffic. Since the product is end-of-life and will not be supported past December 2013, a replacement product must be found to provide content inspection for both web and email traffic.

The goal of the RFI is to determine what is available in the field of content inspection for web and mail security gateways. The goal is to find a product that can perform both web and mail filtering (like the eSafe product). However a solution whereby different products are chosen for the web security gateway and mail security gateway, may also be acceptable.

Expected Procurements

The procurements expected to follow from the Content Validation RFI are:

Once the client has established whether such technology exists or not, and it satisfies their requirements/needs, the client would like to proceed with a procurement strategy to acquire software for the purpose stated above. If the client cannot find a solution that can deliver on both requirements they are open to the idea of procuring two separate solutions: 1) Content Validation for Email and 2) Content Validation for Web.

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.