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Beers 2011
Product Line: Beer - Specialty
Expiration Date: 2010/09/30   (YYYY/MM/DD) Time Left Expired
 
Notes: The Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) invites you to submit tenders for "Beers" to be sold in its network of outlets, for the Summer 2011 Campaign. Your tenders fulfilled online, including the non-refundable payment of CA$ 128.75, by credit card must be submitted BY THURSDAY, September 30, 2010, at 11:59 pm, Montreal local time - Québec (Canada) AT THE LATEST.

In order to fulfill the specific needs for the above mentioned category, the SAQ intends to offer to its customers the following specialty products:

APROXIMATELY TEN (10) beers

 

Family of product:

low fermentation beer (lager variety)
high fermentation beer (ale variety)
spontaneous fermentation beer (lambic variety)

Country of origin: any provenance INCLUDING:

TWO (2) beers from Québec AND
ONE (1) beer from Russia
ONE (1) beer, gluten free


All formats

All types of containers

If the container is an Alternative Packaging, refer to the related text in the General criteria and other conditions section.

The packing must be mounted in order to ensure the inviolability of the container.

Assets:
- any country not represented (or little representation) at the SAQ
- artisan beer from microbrewery
- format: 500 ml can
- types: trappist beer, monastery brewery, imperial stout, Indian pale, porter


SELECTION CRITERIA

The offers will be segmented and analyzed according to the family of product, their type (e.g. imperial stout, pilsner, gueuze) and their country of origin.

Some products could be selected to be marketed within the framework of a specific event, e.g. in the « Cellier » magazine.

Quality
Quality price/ratio
Notoriety
Financial performance
Variety of tender

SAQ will make the final selection in order to optimize the variety offered to our consumers and to consider the trends of its market, the relative importance of the various categories and to optimize the variety offered to our consumers.

General criteria and other conditions

You may submit your product tender directly online through the online gateway you are subscribed to, under the Call for tenders tab or My products tab, in the SAQ Catalog of offers section. To generate an "Alcoholic Product Submission Form", go to the end of the Call for tenders description and click on the "Add an offer" or ‘' Add an offer from an existing'' button. Be careful to fill in all requested information in the cells and to proceed to the online payment of your file-opening fees by credit card.

If you are not subscribed to one of our transactional websites, you can create an account, free of charge, in order to be allowed to submit tenders. Please follow the following stages:

- Access www.saq-b2b.com
- Click on the Subscribe tab to create an account
- Fill in the subscription form with the requested information
- When completed, click on the button Register now!
- A confirmation will appear on-screen: Congratulations! You successfully subscribed for a Membership.
- Do not take into account the statement: Your new Account Manager will be contacting you shortly, indicated in the Saq-b2b.com's subscription confirmation, which was sent to you by email.
- Access the online gateway and log in with your user name and enter your password.
- Follow the access instructions above.


Products of certified biological cultures:

WARNING: The products submitted in the "Agrobiological" category will be analyzed within their own category.

The products resulted from biological cultures must be certified by an Organic Certification Body. The Certification Body has to be accredited or recognized (biological productions) by one of the following bodies:

Products from Québec:
• CARTV Accredited Certifying Bodies

You can access those bodies from the CARTV Web site: http://www.cartvquebec.com/organismes-certification-biologique

Imported products:
• CFIA Accredited Certifying Bodies (products certified according Canada Standards) (www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/orgbio/cbliste.shtml)
• USDA Accredited Certifying Bodies (products certified according NOP Standards)

For more information, please consult the following Web sites: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/francais/fssa/orgbio/orgbiof.shtml and
http://www.cartvquebec.com/organismes-certification-biologique

The name of the Certification Body must be registered in the «Additional Information» cell under the «Notoriety» tab. Proof of certification will be required later on.

The lifetime of the products will be reasonably long in order to perform the sale of the products in reasonable delays. Estimated product lifetime: at least one (1) year from the pick up of the orders.

‘‘Fairtrade'' certified alcoholic products

The producer submitting his ‘‘Fairtrade'' products must be in possession of an appropriate licence allowing him to sale his products under the "Fairtrade" certification.

A ‘'FAIRTRADE'' logo must be put on the bottles of product.

The name of the certification body (Transfair or Fairtrade) must be registered in the «Additional Information» cell from the «Other» section, under the «Notoriety» tab.

Proof of certification and/or accreditation will be required later on.

Alternative Packaging

WARNING: The products submitted in the "Eco-Pratic" category will be analyzed within this new category.

The Alternative Packaging will have to be certified with a Letter of No Objection issued by the Health Products and Food Branch of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (www.inspection.gc.ca).

An approval delivered by FDA (USA) or the EFSA (Europe) could be accepted temporarily, if the approval process of the packaging is completed within 10 months after the acceptance of the products, within the framework of this call for tenders.

Moreover, after having received the information that his offer qualified for the second stage of the selection process, and also before the commercialization of the product, the supplier has to fulfill the "Special requirements for the alternative packaging" form.

The lifetime of the products will be reasonably long in order to perform the sale of the products in reasonable delays. The supplier is responsible to provide the information as for the lifespan of their product and will be, thereafter, ascribable to it. All the fees concerning the collect or the destruction of the out-of-date inventory will be at supplier's expense.

The SAQ reserves the right to carry out tests (in collaboration with the Food Research and Development Centre (FRDC), for approving the packaging in order to be marketed at the SAQ.

Environmental Claims:

The product submitted with an environmental claim will have to meet the standards of the Guide for Industry and Advertisers of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) available at www.csa.ca/cm/plus-14021-guide-for-industry-and-advertisers

If the new product is selected, the supplier will have to fill up Environmental claims form available on our online gateway: www.saq-b2b.com and forward it to the e-mail address written on the form.

Sales Forecast:

The amounts of reference to be used for the calculation of the annual sales target are the Minimum sales quotas by universe, into force on March 29, 2009, published on January 20, 2009

Exchange rates

The exchange rates applicable for this call for tenders are the latest published by the SAQ on the www.saq-b2b.com , in effect on September 15th, 2010. We kindly request that you always mention this information when contacting the Société des alcools du Québec, regarding the present call for tenders.


Code   Country           Currency   Exchange

CAD   Canada            Dollar        1.0000
USD   United States   Dollar        1.0436
AUD   Australia          Dollar        0.9343
NZD   New Zealand     Dollar        0.7332
XEU   Europe             Euro         1.3487

Other conditions

The SAQ reserves the right to not accept any of the received tenders, as well as to cancel this present call for tenders and reject all tenders with no compensation to the submitters and without the SAQ being held liable for any costs or losses incurred by the submitters.

The SAQ will consider that any omission, abstention, inaccurate or nonconforming elements with one or other of the provisions of this call for tenders will make unacceptable the tender and subsequently will cancel the offer.

For more precision, the SAQ is not held to accept a tender of a product even if it corresponds to a specific need listed in this call for tenders.

The SAQ will not assume any expense incurred by the recipient, concerning the preparation and the submission of its offer.

All the received offers, all the documents and other items received during the treatment of the tender become the exclusive property of the SAQ.

If, at the end of the evaluation of the offers, the product is selected, the supplier must commit to observe the applicable conditions of the Purchasing and Merchandising Policy.

In order to avoid any confusion, please wait for SAQ's answer and instructions before sending the required labels and samples.

Only the French version of this call for tenders is officially considered. If differences arise between the French version and the English version, please note that the French version prevails.

For more details concerning SAQ Procurement and Merchandising Policy and Standards, please visit our online portal at www.saq-b2b.com, under the "Policy and Standards" tab.

For more information about how to fill out the form, please contact our Business Relations Assistance Service (Service d'Assistance aux Relations d'Affaires - SARA) by phone, at 514-254-2711 or by email at: sara@saq.qc.ca.

 


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