Advanced Contract Award Notice (ACAN) for Independent Proof of Proposal Testing as a part of the Evaluation of Competitive Procurement Processes for Cyber and IT Security (CITS) at Shared Services Canada (SSC)

***Amendment 001 Issued to revise the title of the ACAN to better capture the requirement*** The Infrastructure Security (IS) Division of Cyber and IT Security (CITS) at Shared Services Canada (SSC) is responsible for the engineering, integration and ongoing in-service support of security solutions and capabilities. This includes modernizing existing solutions and implementing new capabilities in support of safeguarding the business operations of the Government of Canada (GC). The Government of Canada (GC) is in the process of procuring various cyber security solutions that will meet future security needs as well as other related projects for safeguarding the GC enterprise. The GC requires testing in order to verify and validate solutions that are proposed as part of bid submissions against various Requests for Proposal (RFP). The purpose of this Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) is to signal the government's intention to award a contract for these services Cytelligence Inc. Before awarding a contract, however, the government would like to provide other suppliers with the opportunity to demonstrate that they are capable of satisfying the requirements set out in this Notice, by submitting a statement of capabilities during the 7 calendar day posting period.