Opportunity
CanadaBuys #ESC-2627-118
AAFC SaaS collection management system for living biological collections
Posted
November 03, 2026
Respond By
December 02, 2026
Identifier
ESC-2627-118
NAICS
513210, 541511, 541512, 518210
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is seeking a hosted collection management system for its national living biological collections. - Government buyer: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Eastern Service Centre. Contact: Claudia Lauzier. - Procurement: Commercial SaaS Collection Management System (CMS), including implementation and ongoing support. No OEM, software publisher, reseller, or product brand is named. - Scope: Manage collection and specimen data, transactions, and protocols for living microbial, fungal, and viral collections, including viruses and fungi hosted in living plants. Migrate existing records from AAFC’s MySQL database through analysis, mapping, and loading. - Required capabilities and delivery: Provide production, staging/pre-production, and development/testing instances; configure at least 5 Admin, 50 Regular, and 100 Read-Only users; and provide installation, activation, user configuration, remote training, and technical support. Requirements include applicable Spectrum standards, English/French access, Canadian data residency and processing, and stringent security and privacy protections. - Named vendors/OEMs: None identified. Claudia Lauzier is the named government contact, not a vendor. - Term: Three-year initial period with one optional two-year extension. Key delivery milestones include initial setup within 8 weeks of award, three instances within 30 days, and migration and training within 12 months.
Description
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) is seeking a software-as-a-service Collection Management System developed to manage and support biological living collections. The system must support capturing and managing data, transactions, and protocols across multiple organism collection types, including living microbial collections and viruses and fungi hosted in living plants. The initial contract period is three years, with an option for an additional two years.