Tlicho Government Traditional Knowledge on Climate and Environmental Change in the Northwest Territories

ADVANCE CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE (ACAN) 1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier. 2. Definition of Requirements The project deliverable (March 31st, 2016) will be a report detailing information on past climate and environmental change in the North West Territories (NWT) extracted from one or more publicly available historical sources that are relevant to the Tlicho community by one or more Tlicho community members. The contractor is to collect, interpret, and synthesize traditional knowledge on land-use, environmental, and climate change in the Northwest Territories specific to the experiences of the Tlicho First Nation. This contractor may use a variety of data collection methods including interviews with community members that have had direct experience with land-use, environmental, and climate change in their cultural lands. These community members may include elders, youth, and other land-users. The contractor may also use materials such as published and non-published journals, photographs, and other materials, to direct conversation with community members and collect traditional information. 3. Criteria for Assessment of the Statement of Capabilities Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that it meets the following requirements:

The supplier must have direct and specific experience working andcommunicating with the Tlicho First Nation. This experience must be at least 1 year and involve the following: working with Tlicho First Nation community members to discuss, extract, and interpret their traditional knowledge. This working experience could include, for example, holding workshops of Tlicho First Nation community members and facilitating round-table discussions and documenting their communicated (orally, written) traditional accounts, extraction and interpretation of knowledge from publically available and/or private journals that are relevant to the traditional land-use of the Tlicho First Nation, and/or, use of other materials (e.g., photos, news articles) to facilitate discussions among community members and documenting their communications relevant to their traditions.

The supplier must be authorized by the Tlicho First Nation, tocollect information from the community.

4. Trade Agreements This procurement is subject to the Tlicho Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement. 5. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier The supplier mentioned in section 10 below is the only known supplier that meets the mandatory criteria set out in section 3 above. The Contractor is the First Nation community organization: Tlicho First Nation. This First Nation organization is best suited to complete the contract through direct and specific experiences with the Tlicho First Nation’s traditional knowledge collection and interpretation. On Thursday, August 4, 2005, the Tlicho Agreement went into full effect, "The first official day of the Tlicho Government and the Tlicho community governments" (Tlicho Effective Date). On August 25, 2003, they signed a land claims agreement, also called Tlicho, as the Tlicho Government, with the Government of Canada. The agreement is comprised of a 39,000 square kilometres (15,100 sq mi) area between Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake in the NWT and is under Tlicho ownership. The territory includes the communities of Behchoko, Gamèti, Wekweeti and Whatì (along with Diavik Diamond Mine and Ekati Diamond Mine). The four bands, Dogrib Rae Band, Whatí First Nation, Gaméti First Nation and Dechi Laot’i First Nation and the Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, ceased to exist on August 4, 2005 and have been succeeded by the Tlicho Government (or Tåîchô Government). Should Canada receive a statement of capabilities from a supplier that contains sufficient information to indicate that it meets the requirements set forth in this ACAN, a competitive process will be triggered with a technical and financial evaluation methodology of the bids proposed by the potential bidders 6. Exception to the Government Contracts Regulations and applicable trade agreements The following exception(s) to the Government Contracts Regulations is (are) invoked for this procurement under subsection 6(d) – “only one person is capable of performing the work”. The identified provider, The Tlicho First Nation, is the only one able to meet all of the criteria identified in paragraph 3 above. 7. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons N/A 8. Title to Intellectual property Ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of the proposed contract will vest in the Contractor 9. Contract Period The contract period will be from Contract Award date to March 31, 2016 10. Estimated Cost The estimated maximum value of the contract is $47,250.00 CAD (GST inclusive). 11. Name and Address of the Proposed Contractor Primary contact: Wendy Mantla Manager, Research Operations and Training Dedats’eetsaa: Tlicho Research and Training Institute Department of Culture and Lands Protection Tlicho Government PO Box 412 Behchoko`, NWT Tel: 867-392-6381 ext 1310 Email: wendymantla@tlicho.com 12. Suppliers’ right to submit a statement of capabilities “Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a Statement of Capabilities in writing, preferably by e-mail, to the contact person identified in this Notice on or before the closing date and time of this Notice. The Statement of Capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.” 13. Closing Date The closing date for a submission of a Statement of Capabilities is March 18, 2016 at 14:00 Pacific Standard Time. 14. Contract Authority Gerald Baran Senior Procurement Officer 506 West Burnside Road Victoria, BC V8Z 1M5 Telephone: 250-298-2502 Email: gerald.baran@canada.ca