VIA Rail Canada – Maintenance Facilities Modernization Project
Notice of Request for Qualifications
Name of Procuring Entity
VIA Rail Canada Inc.
Contact Person and Contract Person Coordinates
Oriane Pacic, Procurement Agent VIA Rail Canada Inc.
3 Place Ville Marie, Suite 500 Montréal, Québec, H3B 2C9
Email : maintenancefacilitiesprocurement@viarail.ca
Description of Procurement
The purpose of the Maintenance Facilities Modernization Project is to modernize VIA Rail’s existing Toronto Maintenance Centre (the “TMC”) and Montreal Maintenance Centre (the “MMC”) (the “Facilities”) in order to provide enhanced modern servicing to support the arrival of VIA Rail’s new fleet (scheduled to be delivered progressively between 2022 and 2024).
VIA Rail Canada Inc. is conducting a request for qualifications (“RFQ”) process for the subsequent procurement of design build services for each of the MMC and TMC. Applicants may seek to be prequalified through this RFQ process in respect of either the MMC or the TMC or in respect of both facilities.
The RFQ process will not involve negotiation or an electronic auction.
Procurement Documents
The RFQ documents are available on MERX.
Prospective suppliers who are interested in participating in the RFQ process are required to execute and return the confidentiality agreement attached to the RFQ as “Appendix G” by e-mail to maintenancefacilitiesprocurement@viarail.ca in order to obtain access to the data site that VIA Rail will use for the RFQ process.
Prospective suppliers should note that an Applicant’s Meeting will be held on February 11, 2020 via webinar and information related to attending this meeting will only be available to prospective suppliers that have executed and submitted the confidentiality agreement.
Address and Final Date for Submissions
Prequalification submissions must be submitted no later than March 31, 2020 at 2:00:00 PM Eastern to the following address:
VIA Rail Canada Inc.
3 Place Ville Marie, Suite 500 Montréal, Québec H3B 2C9
Attention: Oriane Pacic, Procurement Agent
The prequalification submissions will not be opened publicly.
Timeframe for Delivery
The Project will need to ensure the seamless transition from continuously servicing the existing fleet of VIA Rail trainsets to accommodate and service the first delivery of 10 new trainsets in 2022 (as well as the next 22 trainsets which will have a staged delivery up to 2024), and subsequently achieve completion whereby only the new trainsets are serviced.
Prequalification
VIA Rail intends to select up to four prequalified suppliers in respect of each Facility to be invited to participate in the subsequent procurement process.
VIA Rail will base its selection of prequalified suppliers on the following criteria:
- Financial Capacity
- Applicant and Prime Team Member Organization
- Prime Team Members’ Experience – Project Examples
- Prime Team Members’ Experience – Key Individuals
- Project Approach
- Safety Certification
To demonstrate financial capacity, prospective suppliers will be required to provide certain financial information, including details regarding parent company guarantees. The evaluation criteria are described in more detail in the RFQ documents.
Language of Submission
Prequalification submissions can be submitted in English or French.
Applicable Trade Agreements
This procurement is subject to the following trade agreements:
The Canadian Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 5
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Chapter 15
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, Chapter 19 The North American Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 10
The World Trade Organization Revised Agreement on Government Procurement The Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 14
The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 14 The Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 16 The Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 17 The Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 10
Notes
Prospective suppliers should note that information contained within this notice is subject to change. Prospective suppliers are encouraged to consult the RFQ documents on the data site which contain the most current information. If there is a conflict between the RFQ documents and this notice, the RFQ documents will take precedence.
Note that only prospective suppliers prequalified in the RFQ process will receive further notices of procurement related to the subsequent procurement process.
