Refurbishment of Wall Panels

Notice of Proposed Procurement (NPP)

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) requires services to dismantle, remove, refurbish, and reinstall 2,186 Teknion Transit wall panels located at 55 Bay Street Hamilton, ON L8R 3P7.

It is mandatory that the Bidder or a representative of the Bidder visit the work site. Bidders who do not attend the mandatory site visit or do not send a representative will not be given an alternative appointment and their bid will be declared non-responsive.

Evaluation and Selection A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria to be declared responsive.

The responsive bid with the lowest evaluated price will be recommended for award of a contract for that region.

Conditional Set-aside under the Federal Government Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB) This procurement may be conditionally set aside under the federal government Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business.

In order to be considered for the set-aside, the Bidder must certify that it qualifies as an Indigenous business as defined under PSIB and that it will comply with all requirements of PSIB. If bids from two (2) or more Indigenous businesses are compliant with the terms of the Request for Proposal, the contracting authority will limit the competition to those Indigenous businesses and will not consider bids from any non-Indigenous businesses that may have been submitted.

For more information on Indigenous business requirements of the Set-aside Program for Indigenous Business, refer to Eligibility for Indigenous procurement set aside and Procurement information for Indigenous business owners

If the bids from the Indigenous businesses are found to be non-compliant or non-responsive or are withdrawn, such that fewer than two compliant bids from Indigenous businesses remain, bids from all of the non-Indigenous businesses that had submitted bids will then be considered by the contracting authority.

Submission of Proposals Proposal documents and supporting information must be submitted in either English or French. Bids must be submitted by using the Connect service provided by the Canada Post Corporation. When responding, the proposal MUST be delivered to: Canada Revenue Agency Bid Receiving Unit BRUg@cra-arc.gc.ca

Bids will not be accepted if emailed directly to this email address. This email address must be used to request that CRA open a Connect conversation, as detailed in Standard Instructions 2003. Bidders must not use their own licensing agreement for Connect to initiate a Connect conversation with CRA.

The CRA reserves the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

This solicitation is open only to Canadian suppliers and to Suppliers of an applicable trading partner. For additional information, consult the bid solicitation document.

Communications - Solicitation Period

Questions must be directed in writing to the contracting authority via email Samuel.Snow@cra-arc.gc.ca Bidders are encouraged to submit all enquiries to the Contracting Authority as early as possible before the bid closing date.