Procurement Vehicles

QMR is a named supplier on the following standing offers, supply arrangements and contracting vehicles to the federal government. Beyond these procurement vehicles we have alliance relationships in place to provide qualified resources under other professional services procurement vehicles, such as PASS and individual departmental offers and arrangements.

Procurement Vehicle	Description	Roles/functions available through QMR	Value
Temporary Help Services (THS)	Shorter duration engagements attained through standing offer (SO) or supply arrangement (SA)	Finance/ audit Communications Policy and advisory Procurement Human resources Policy and advisory services	Up to $400,000 for SO. Duration of 48 weeks for SA; 24-week extension possible with justification through PWGCS
Task and Solutions Professional Services (TSPS)	Task- and solution- based professional services (non-IT). Includes SO and SA components	Human resources services Business consulting/change management Project management services	From $76.6k up to $2m (Tier 1) and above $2m (Tier 2). SO has set per diem rates. SA’s involve proposals.
Professional Services Online (PS Online)	Electronic government-wide procurement system open to all departments	Professional services	Up to $76.6k (NAFTA limit)
Task-Based Informatics Professional Services (TBIPS)	SO and SA to address supply of Information Technology (IT) needs, which are usually associated with a specified set of responsibilities	Business services Project management services	$250k per call up (SO), SA – up to $2m (Tier 1) and above $2m (Tier 2)
Solutions-Based Informatics Professional Services (SBIPS)	SA to source supplier of IT services where the supplier defines and provides a complete operational solution to a requirement, manages the complete project and accepts responsibility for results	*Applying for all 11 streams Business Transformation ERP/CRM Electronic Services Delivery Geospatial Informatics Services (GIS) Information Management/Business Intelligence IT Systems Management Legacy Support and Transition Managed Services Network Services Security Management Systems Integration Contact us for further information.	Tier 1 – up to $2 million; Tier 2 – $2m+
Professional Audit Support Services – Supply Arrangement (PASS-SA)	Federal government-wide mandatory SA for the provision of professional services required to meet obligations set by two Treasury Board policies: the Internal Audit Policy and the Internal Control Policy	Delivered through partnership Internal audit services Practice inspections Information technology and systems audits Forensic audits External audits Financial accounting services Internal control training Recipient/contribution agreement audit	< $25k can be sole sourced; $25k< $100k can be tendered. Duration from date of agreement until March 31, 2012

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