Software Licensing Supply Arrangement (SLSA) RFSA
Contract Overview
Solicitation details, issuing organization, response deadlines, documents, and interested companies for this government contract opportunity.
AI Contract Overview
The Government of Canada is seeking offers for a Software Licensing Supply Arrangement to procure off-the-shelf software licenses along with associated maintenance and support services. This arrangement is designed to streamline future software licensing acquisitions across federal departments and agencies, but it explicitly excludes IT professional services, hardware, appliances, hosted solutions, and any cloud-based models such as SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS. The resulting supply arrangements are non-binding and serve only as a procurement mechanism; actual contracts will be issued only when specific requirements are formally solicited and awarded under this framework. The previous supply arrangement under reference EN578-100808 expired on September 30, 2023, and this new solicitation replaces it with an updated vehicle valid until September 29, 2028. Interested suppliers must submit their proposals to the designated email address and can access the full request document through the provided discovery portal. The point of contact for inquiries is John Rankin from Public Works and Government Services Canada.
General Info
Agency
NAICS
Place of Performance
*Canada, CANSet-Aside
Documents
(0)AI Contract Breakdown
Uniform Contract FormatNo contract breakdown available.
Cannot generate Contract Breakdown because no documents were found from this contract's source.
Timeline
Response Deadline
Organization & Contact Information
Full Description
SUMMARY Canada is seeking offers from Offerors for a Software Licensing Supply Arrangement (SLSA) for the delivery of various Off-the-shelf software licenses and related software maintenance and support services. The SLSA procurement vehicle will not be used to procure IT professional services, hardware, appliance solutions, hosted solutions, or cloud-based solutions such as software as a service, infrastructure as a service and platform as a service.
This document is a request for supply arrangements. Resulting supply arrangements are non-binding agreements between Canada and suppliers to facilitate the procurement process and are not contracts. Future requirements solicited through a supply arrangement may result in contracts, but a contract will only exist if and when a contract is awarded.
The current SLSA RFSA (EN578-100808) and existing SA’s will expire September 30, 2023.
RFSA document can be found on the following link: http://discovery.ariba.com/rfx/16043971
Similar Contracts
Same NAICS industry code
More opportunities from Government of Canada → Department of Public Works and Government Services
Same awarding agency