Government-wide Communications Standing Offers – We Qualified!
Posted by Keelan on August 11th, 2008
About a year and a half ago I blogged that the Government of Canada had posted on Merx a draft standing offer for communications services for industry to provide feedback on.
The actual RFPs for Strategic Communications, Public Relations, Communications Project Management, and English and French Writing were released on Merx in November 2007 with proposal submissions due in mid December.
We (Thornley Fallis) submitted and qualified for the following standing offers:
Strategic Communications Services (EN578-060191/026/CW)
- We ranked 3rd out of the 8 bidders that qualified
Public Relations Services (EN578-060191/026/CW)
- We ranked 2nd out of the 3 bidders that qualified
English Writing Services (EN578-060191/011/CW)
- We ranked 3rd out of the 10 bidders that qualified
We also qualified for the Strategic Communications Services Supply Arrangement (the 8 standing offer holders plus 8 additional bidders made this list) and Public Relations Services Supply Arrangement (the 3 standing offer holders plus 5 additional bidders made this list).
Government of Canada departments and agencies are now able (and will be encouraged) to access these Standing Offers and Supply Arrangements to procure communications services.
As a firm that has (a) responded to countless Federal Government RFPs, RFSOs and RFSAs over the years and (b) qualified for the standing offers listed above, this is a very welcome change that I hope will eliminate the need to be continuously responding to RFPs, RFSOs and RFSAs from virtually every Federal Government organization.
