CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, a corporation duly incorporated by the Concordia University Act, S.Q. 1948, c. 91, as amended by S.Q. 1959-60, c. 191 and S.Q. 2006, c. 69, having its head office at 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite GM-801, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 (“Concordia”), wishes to inform all suppliers for software supporting the Finance, Procurement and Human Resources (including payroll) functionalities that it should launch a public call for tenders in the week of April 18th, 2017 on the Government of Quebec electronic website for public tenders ("seao" - https://www.seao.ca/).
The above call for tenders will aim at the acquisition of an integrated solution for the mentioned functional areas and which meets the needs of a large size university. The proposed solution could be a "hosted" solution (on-premise) or cloud. The tender will not select a solution integrator.
The process of acquiring the integrated solution will be conducted in two steps using the competitive dialog public tendering approach. In the first stage, suppliers should have four (4) weeks to propose a solution that meets specific functional and technical requirements, without having to offer a price at this point (no price should be given in the first step).
This notice is for information purposes only and is not binding on Concordia University. The purpose of this notice is to inform suppliers in advance, in order to be well prepared to respond to the upcoming public call for tenders, that will be launched on www.seao.ca, within the prescribed timeframe and in accordance with the terms and conditions provided with the public tender documents. Only the documents, information and notices posted on www.seao.ca will be binding on suppliers and Concordia University.
