Standing offer: Office supplies
Goods and Services Identification Number (GSIN): N7510
Multiple Regional Master Standing Offer
Procurement officer
Sonia Lahaie
343-550-1642
sonia.lahaie@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca
What do we buy
Office and desk supplies including but not limited to: writing instruments, ink and lead refills, binders, folders, stationery, organizers, binding and cutting tools etc. This standing offer does not include: office paper, office equipment or toner and imaging consumables.
How do we buy
- This standing offers is used to buy office supplies
- Solicitations are posted to CanadaBuys for this requirement
- One solicitation is open to all suppliers and the other is a set aside for aboriginal owned businesses
- Suppliers are typically office supplies and stationery retailers
- Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) has analyzed three (3) years of usage data and is in the process of developing a core list of approximately 3,000 items for the upcoming renewal of the standing offer
- The core list represents a selection of high usage items which meet qualifying criteria, including environmental sustainability requirements
- Suppliers will compete by offering prices for all 3,000 items in the core list. Prices will be evaluated on an item by item basis and every supplier is given a score based on the result of the evaluation methodology
- Suppliers must obtain an average score above the minimum pass mark of 75% to be qualified
- Standing offers will be issued to qualified suppliers on a region by region (11 regions) basis. There can be more than one qualified supplier by region
- Users may then place their order with the supplier that best meets their immediate requirement
Socio-economic aspects
The standing offers (SO) for office supplies are solicited nationally yet issued (awarded) on a regional and multiple award basis. This ensures that the Government of Canada, the single largest buyer of office supplies in the country, meets its socio-economic objectives with respect to the reduction of barriers to small and medium enterprise as well as the requirements of the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Businesses.
In addition to regional and multiple award, the SO is also established on the basis of sustainable pricing whereby offerors must submit pricing that is above their net landed cost, before subsidies (volume rebates, cooperative advertising programs and the like). Sustainable pricing prevents anti-competitive practices such as “lost leader” pricing and it ensures that all suppliers regardless of size have a fair chance at being awarded a standing offer in a competitive environment.
Value / Savings / Considerations
A large percentage of office supplies are green. There is an aboriginal set aside for office supply companies.
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