EO-090817-1 - NPP/RFI for Secure Ballot Printing Services

Project Description:
To help meet its statutory requirements, Election Ontario is issuing this NPP/RFI for the purposes of informing the Vendor community and gathering information about the marketplace in order to assist in the determination of future purchasing options or requirements. Proponents are asked to carefully review and respond to Elections Ontario and provide the information requested below.
Prior to October 2017, Elections Ontario intends to conduct an open procurement and issue a Request for Supplier Qualifications (RFSQ) for the purpose of creating a Vendor of Record (VOR) and entering into Master Services Agreement (MSA) with multiple Vendors on a Regional basis, to provide Secure Ballot Printing Services.
To ensure Elections Ontario will have the capacity to print enough Ballots for the 2018 General Election, Elections Ontario has divided the province into eight (8) Regions. Each Region has been assigned a varying number of Electoral Districts based on their geographical location. It is Elections Ontario’s intention to qualify multiple Vendors in order to service all of the province’s 122 Electoral Districts in a timely manner during an Election Event.
 
The scope of the required Deliverables may include, but is not limited to:

1. Secure Ballot Printing and Packaging
2. Secure Shipping Services
3. Secure Destruction of scrap Ballot Paper
4. Secure Warehousing Services (Ballot Paper/Printed Ballots)

1. Ballot Paper (to be provided by Elections Ontario)