Secure shredding services for Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) intends to enter into a contract with a single contractor for the provision of scheduled and ad-hoc secure shredding services, on an ‘’as and when requested’’ basis, for its large volumes of sensitive paper material. The CRA has approximately fifty locations across Canada that require secure shredding services. The type of service required, volumes of sensitive material and the frequency of service varies from location to location. The contractor will not have access inside CRA premises. The Contractor must collect the containers from the loading dock or other loading area approved by the CRA for all locations listed under Appendix 1 to Annex A: CRA Locations of the bid solicitation document. The period of any resulting contract will be for two years with five irrevocable options to extend the contract of one-year each. A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive bids meeting all mandatory evaluation will be evaluated and scored in accordance with the point-rated criteria. Prices submitted will be evaluated to determine the bid evaluation price. The responsive bid with the highest combined rating of technical merit and price will proceed with the conditions precedent to contract award. The Bidder with the highest ranked responsive bid and meeting all the requirements will be recommended for award of a contract. Questions must be directed in writing to the contracting authority via email: marie-claude.lepage@cra-arc.gc.ca. 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. There are security requirements associated with this requirement. For additional information, consult the bid solicitation document. The Federal Contractors Program (FCP) for employment equity applies to this procurement. These trade agreements do not apply to this commodity: Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) - Annex Kbis-01.1-1 and Annex Kbis-01.1-2 Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement(CCoFTA) - Annex 1401-4 Services Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement (CHFTA) - Annex 17.4: Services Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA) - Annex 14-C Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA) - Notes to Annex 11-A.4, section 2 (a) Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement (CPaFTA) - Annex 5: Services, Section B Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA) - Annex 1401.1-4, Part 1 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) - Chapter 15 (a). Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement (Canada-UKTCA) – Annex 19-7 - General notes (g) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)- Annex 19-7 - General notes (g) World Trade Organization – Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP) - Annex 5, note 3 (a)