Bidder s
Guide
Responding
to a
Request for Proposal
December 2005
Responding to a Request for Proposal 1
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................... 1
INTRODUCTION......................................................... 2
NORTH WARNING SYSTEM....................................... 2
THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL PROCESS.................... 3
PROPOSAL PREPARATION.......................................... 5
PROPOSAL PRESENTATION AND SUBMISSION.......... 10
EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS .................................. 12
INFORMATION AVAILABLE..................................... 13
IN CLOSING . . . ....................................................... 13
NWS SITE MAP
Typical LRR and SRR Site Pictures
Responding to a Request for Proposal 2
Introduction
his guide is designed to answer questions commonly
asked by potential contractors about responding to a
Request for Proposal. It covers only those Requests for
Proposal issued by the Nasittuq North Warning System (NWS)
Contracts department.
The intent of this document is to provide guidance to bidders for
submission of successful proposals. Nothing in here is intended
to relieve bidders from forming their own opinions and
conclusions about the best way to respond to our Request for
Proposal.
North Warning System
The mission of the North Warning System (NWS) is to detect
airborne objects within the NWS surveillance area, provide
attack warning and assessment data on these objects to the
Region Operations Control Centre (ROCC) and to provide radar
surveillance and a command and control capability for the Air
Defence Identification Zone.
The NWS in Canada consists of eleven (11) unattended Long
Range Radar (LRR) sites and thirty-six (36) unattended Short
Range Radar (SRR) sites from the north shore of the Yukon to
the southeast shore of Labrador. Sites are maintained and
supported by five Logistic Support Sites (LSS) situated in Inuvik,
Cambridge Bay, Hall Beach, Iqalui