Bids Are Invited For Armoured Vehicle Services Rcsa

The Province Invites Interested Suppliers To Submit Responses For The Provision Of Armoured Vehicle Services To Be Provided To Individual Purchasers On An As, If, And When Requested Basis. The Services Will Be Accessed Through A Corporate Supply Arrangement - Closed Framework (“Csa”) Established With The Province, On Substantially The Terms And Conditions Set Out In Schedule A. The Csa With The Province, Establishes, Among Other Things, Purchasers’ Access To Services, As Described In Section 4 Of This Rcsa.The Term Of A Resulting Csa Is To Be Three (3) Years, With Three (3) One-Year Options To Extend.The Purchasers Will Require Any Or All Of The Following: Regularly Scheduled And On-Demand Pickup Of Deposits To Then Be Delivered To Designated Consigneesregularly Scheduled And On-Demand Pickup Of Currency Orders From Designated Consignees To Then Be Delivered To The Purchasersregularly Scheduled And On-Demand Transport Of A Purchaser’S Items Between Two Premises Of The Purchaserthere Are 7 Geographic Areas Requiring The Services, As Described In Schedule D [Geographic Areas]. Each Geographic Area Contains Required Communities That Must Be Provided The Services For Regularly Scheduled Pickup/Delivery By The Contractor, Along With Optional Communities That Respondents May Also Propose To Provide The Services For One, Some Or All Optional Communities. There Will Be A Separate Qualitative And Price Evaluation For Each Geographic Area. A Respondent May Propose To Provide The Services Within One, Some Or All Of The 7 Geographic Areas Listed Within Appendix 1 To Schedule D [Geographic Areas Response Form]. For Each Given Geographic Area, Only One Csa Will Be Awarded To One Csa Holder. If More Than One Geographic Area Is Awarded To The Same Respondent, Those Geographic Areas Will Be Covered Under One Combined Csa.The Names Of The 7 Geographic Areas Are As Follows But Refer To Appendix 1 To Schedule D [Geographic Areas Response Form] For The Complete Listing Of All Of The Required Communities And Optional Communities Within Each Geographic Area:Metro Vancouver – Including Powell River & Secheltvancouver Island - Northvancouver Island - Centralvancouver Island – Southnorth Eastern Interiornorth Western Interiorcentral Interiorpurchasers Of The Services Offered Through Csas Are Anticipated To Include Several Individual Offices Within Various Ministries And Agencies Of The Province And May Include Public Sector Entities. While The Province, Represented By Procurement Services Branch, Will Manage The Resulting Csas, The Csa Holder(S) Will Contract Directly With Each Purchaser And Provide Unique And Separate Accounts To Each Purchaser For Each Service Request Issued To A Csa Holder. As Required By Each Purchaser, And The Contractor (Once Established As A Result Of A Csa Holder Accepting And Signing A Service Request That Is Also Signed By A Purchaser) Will Then Invoice Each Purchaser For Each Account Separately And Directly. For Clarity, The Province Will Not Hold An Account With A Csa Holder Or The Contractor And Is Not Responsible For The Individual Purchasers’ Accounts Or Payment Of Their Invoices; The Contractor/Csa Holder Will Set Up Each Purchaser With A Unique Account And As Required By The Purchaser. The Individual Orders Resulting From A Csa Holder Accepting A Service Request Will Be Between The Contractor And The Purchaser Issuing The Service Request. The Form Of Contract Between The Contractor And A Purchaser Will Be Appendix C [Order Terms And Conditions] To Schedule A [Corporate Supply Arrangement – Closed Framework]. This Applies To Purchasers And Service Requests Issued By Ministries (And Numerous Individual Departments Within Each Ministry) And Core Provincial Government Agencies, As Well As Public Sector Entities.While Respondents Should Review All Of The New Opportunity And All Documents That Form The Rcsa In Their Entirety, The Province Wishes To Highlight The Following Excerpts From The Rcsa For All Respondents:“3.12 Csa Finalization Delayby Submitting A Response, The Respondent Agrees That Should Its Response Be Successful The Respondent Will Enter Into A Csa With The Province On Substantially The Same Terms And Conditions Set Out In Schedule A [Corporate Supply Arrangement – Closed Framework] And Such Other Terms And Conditions To Be Finalized To The Satisfaction Of The Province, If Applicable. It Is Not The Intent Of The Province To Negotiate The Terms And Conditions Of The Csa.”“7.2.3 Price Rated Criteriapricing Proposed Must Be Provided Separately For Each Geographic Area In Which With Respondent Is Interested In Delivering The Services And Must Not Be Contingent On The Respondent Being Successful In More Than One Geographic Area.”“Schedule C – Primary Response Form3. Submission Declarationby Submitting A Response, The Respondent: Ii) Agrees To All Of The Terms, Conditions, And Process Rules Of The Rcsa”“Schedule E – Pricing, Item (H): All Pricing Bid Is Required To Be Unconditional And Unqualified. If Any Pricing Bid Does Not Meet This Requirement, The Respondent’S Response May Be Rejected Resulting In The Respondent Being Eliminated From The Rcsa Competition.”