Request for Expression of Interest
Date Issued: Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Request from: Infrastructure Health and Safety Association
21 Voyager Court South
Etobicoke, ON, M9W 5M7
Contact: Alan Hansen
Type of Service Required: WEB External Consultant
Request for Expression of This should be considered a formal procurement
Interest: document for the purpose of setting up a WEB External Consultant.
Date Response Required:
RFEI 2019 - #010
Key response dates:
Release date: Wednesday, October 10, 2019
Final date for questions: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 @ 2:00 p.m.
Final Submission date: Monday, October 28, 2019 @ 2:00 pm.
Request for Expression of Interest Checklist
Infrastructure Health & Safety Association recommend that Proponents use the following checklist when completing the RFEI to help ensure that all the key components to your organization’s proposal are submitted on time. Documents must be delivered to the Project Representative by the dates and times set out below.
Courier, E-Mail or Deliver By:
Monday, October 28, 2019 2:00 pm EDT
TO:
Alan Hansen
Submissions that are received after the closing time will be returned unopened.
Include all RFEI materials, in one (1) package.
The package should contain:
- One (1) envelope prominently marked “Original” signed by an authorized representative in your organization and containing
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- one (1) printed original of all documents and exhibits in response to the RFEI
- One (1) envelope marked “Copies” and containing
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- three (3) copies of all documents and exhibits in response to the RFEI
or
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- PDF Copy by e-mail ahansen@ihsa.ca
Proposals are to be prominently marked Confidential with the RFEI title and number (see RFEI cover), with the full legal name and return address of the Proponent, and with the Proposal Submission Deadline date and time.
Proposals submitted in any other manner may be disqualified.
Introduction
- Confidentiality
All information included in this RFEI is confidential and only for the recipient knowledge. No information included in this document or in discussions connected to it may be disclosed to any other party.
- Background
The Infrastructure Health & Safety Association (IHSA) works with employers and workers in Ontario to eliminate occupational injury and illness. The membership of IHSA includes seven major industries: construction, transportation, electrical, utilities, aggregates, natural gas pipelines, and ready-mix concrete.
Office Locations:
Mississauga
5345 Creekbank Road
Mississauga, Ontario L4W 5L5
Etobicoke
21 Voyager Court South
Etobicoke ON M9W 5M7
Purpose and Intent of RFEI
The purpose of this RFEI is to solicit interest in providing IHSA with external consultation on our WEB site.
IHSA would be looking for a 3 year contract, plus up to 2 more additional years at IHSA discretion.
- Proposed Services
- Proposed Work/Deliverables
As part of this solicitation, the following items should be included in the proposal for discussion and consideration by IHSA:
The consulting firm should have a strong knowledge in:
- Content Management System with ecommerce platform (currently using Kentico Version 7)
- Solution to be based on C# .Net platform/Microsoft SQL server
Demonstrated skills and application of a CMS/ecommerce including:
- 3 years + demonstrated experience in implementing the above CMS/ecommerce platform. Demonstrated work to include analysis, design and development (UI, UX, creatives, workflow)
- 3 years + demonstrated experience in building customized components within the above CMS/ecommerce platform. Include tools utilized and challenges overcome.
- 3 years + experience building integration components via API and webhook
Experience in implementing ecommerce platforms that include:
- products that have multiple price levels based on customer types
- order workflow to include product availability/inventory management - (stock outs, quantity on hand)
- check out model leveraging a reservation model (course seat reserved until payment processed to ensure no double booking)
- sales orders with multiple types (physical item to be shipped, course registration)
IHSA to provide a REST API for CMS/ecommerce consumption within proposed platform
- General Requirements
Provide the following information for the interview component of the Rated Criteria:
- Company experience
- Company size
- Scope and size of previous projects
- References
Rated Criteria
The criteria will consist of scoring by the Evaluation Team on each qualified proposal based on the rated criteria.
The IHSA evaluation team will base selection decisions on responses received and the best outcome for the IHSA. Each response will be carefully evaluated and scored by the evaluation team. Proponents will be contacted and provided a date for the interview portion of the rated criteria.
Each response will be scored in accordance with the relative importance weighting indicated in the table below.
- Review Representative
All contact and questions with regard to this RFEI must be made through the Project Representative selected for this initiative, by e-mail. For the purposes of this RFEI, the Project Representative is:
Name: Alan Hansen
Email: ahansen@ihsa.ca
Any questions received and responses will be provided to all Proponents. Questions will be accepted up to and including Wednesday, October 23, 2019 @ 2:00 p.m. EDT.
- Additional Information
The IHSA may request additional data, discussions, presentations or on-site visits in support of the response to this RFEI, all without obligation to provide other RFEI recipients with similar information or notice of such communication. Additionally, the IHSA reserve the right to implement the appropriate due diligence processes to organize or clarify any information provided, or to collect more evidence of managerial, financial and technical abilities, including but not limited to, meetings and visits with current customers served by the Proponent.
- The deadline for submission of an Offer is Monday, October 28, 2019 @ 2:00 pm EDT.
- The successful Proponent will do everything possible to exceed delivery expectations.
- Notification to Other Proponents of Outcome of Procurement Process
Once the successful Proponent executes a contract, the others will be notified in writing of the outcome of the procurement process.
#Rated CriteriaWeighting
(Points)
1Project Plan/Proposal30
2Experience30
3Interview40
Total Points100
