Basic Information

Reference Number

PW-20-00907268

Issuing Organization

Shared Services Canada

Owner Organization

Shared Services Canada

Solicitation Type

NPP - Notice of Proposed Procurement (Formal)

Solicitation Number

BPM009024/A

Title

Invitation to Qualify (ITQ) – Government PSTN Access Services (GPAS) (BPM009024/A)

Source ID

PWGSC

Details

Location

All of Canada

Dates

Publication

2020/02/19 12:00:00 AM EST

Closing Date

2020/05/01 02:00:00 PM EDT

Contact Information

James Graves

873-355-4946

james.graves2@canada.ca

Description

This Invitation to Qualify (ITQ) is the first phase of a procurement process by Shared Services Canada (SSC) for Government Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Access Services (GPAS). Suppliers are invited to pre-qualify in accordance with the terms and conditions of this ITQ in order to become “Qualified Respondents” for any later phases of the procurement process. Only Qualified Respondents will be permitted to respond on any subsequent solicitation issued as part of the procurement process.

This ITQ is neither a request for proposal nor a solicitation of bids or tenders and is intended only to pre-qualify respondents.

P2P Submission

In order to submit a response to this ITQ, respondents must follow the instructions in the Invitation to Qualify (ITQ) which would be accessible as detailed below. The respondents may contact the contracting authority if they have any issues in the accessibility of the ITQ document at the following email address:

James.graves2@canada.ca

Respondents can view ITQ documents within the P2P tool in the following solicitation:

BPM009024

https://sscp2pspc.ssc-spc.gc.ca/page.aspx/en/bpm/process_manage_extranet/10140

Respondents must be registered and logged into P2P in order to submit a response.

To register, please go to

https://sscp2pspc.ssc-spc.gc.ca

and click “Register Now”.

NATIONAL SECURITY EXCEPTION

Canada has invoked the National Security Exception for all purposes with respect of this requirement and, as a result, none of disciplines of the trade agreements apply to this procurement.

SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

There is a security requirement associated with this requirement.

COMPREHENSIVE LAND CLAIM AGREEMENTS (CLCA):

This procurement will consider contracting obligations that exist in the Comprehensive Land Claim Agreements across Canada.

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