MA021-23-0152 - IT Security Engineer Services (MA021-23-0152)

NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROCUREMENT (NPP)

IT Security Engineer Services

Solicitation No.: MA021-23-0152

Contracting Authority: Marine Atlantic Inc.

Telephone No.: 902-794-5375

E-mail Address: aoliver@marine-atlantic.ca

This RFP is only for pre-qualified Suppliers for Stream 6.6 IT Security Engineer against Supply Arrangement E60ZT-180027.

DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT:

The required services may include, but are not limited to the following:

Initial meeting to review objectives and expectations.

Review, analyze and/or apply:

Directory Standards such as X.400, X.500, and SMTP

Operating Systems such as MS, Unix, Linux, and Novell

Networking Protocols such as HTTP, FTP, and Telnet

Secure IT architectures fundamentals, standards, communications and security protocols such as IPSec, IPv6, SSL, and SSH

IT Security protocols at all layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and Transmission Control

Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stacks

Domain Name Services (DNS) and Network Time Protocols (NTP)

Network routers, multiplexers and switches

Application, host and/or Network hardening and security best practices such as shell scripting, service identification, and access control

Intrusion detection/prevention systems, malicious code defence, file integrity, Enterprise Security Management and/or firewalls

Wireless technology

Cryptographic Algorithms

DURATION OF CONTRACT

The period of the Contract is from upon contract award to October 31, 2023.

EVALUATION PROCESS AND SELECTION METHODOLOGY

Mandatory Technical Criteria

Provide previous work experience for the proposed resource to demonstrate the 10+ years experience required.

Financial Evaluation

Pricing will be scored based on a relative pricing formula using the rates set out in the Basis of Payment. Each bidder will receive a percentage of the total possible points allocated to price for the particular category it has bid on, which will be calculated in accordance with the following formula:

Lowest price ÷ proponents price x weighting = proponent’s pricing points.

Basis of Selection

SACC Manual Clause (A0027T) (2012-07-16) ,

Basis of Selection - Highest Combined Rating of Technical Merit and Price

To be declared responsive, a bid must:

Comply with all the requirements of the bid solicitation

Meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria;

Bids not meeting (a) or (b) will be declared non-responsive.

The selection will be based on the highest responsive rating of price. The ratio will be 100 % for the price.

To establish the pricing score, each responsive bid will be prorated against the lowest evaluated price and the ratio of 100 %.

For each responsive bid, the pricing score will determine its rating.

Neither the responsive bid obtaining the lowest evaluated price will necessarily be accepted. The responsive bid with the highest rating will be recommended for award of a contract.

SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

DOS-Reliability / Protected C-DOS