Call for Tenders - details

Specific needs:

In our constant search for strategies that will enable us to optimize our product offer and our marketing activities, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) Procurement and Merchandising Division is introducing a new type of business opportunity: the mode of acquisition by private agreements for spirits sold as Regular products.

This mode of acquisition will complement the call for tenders process, which can hinder the SAQ under certain circumstances in the context of a competitive market and increased demand from our clientele. In light of this, and with a view to increasing our performance, enhancing our ability to take advantage of business opportunities more quickly, and improving our business practices, we are amending the rules for selecting spirits sold as Regular products in certain cases.

Within this new framework, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) invites you to submit tenders of spirits for its REGULAR PRODUCTS Catalogue to be sold in its network of outlets. In order to be retained, the products must satisfy the following requirements:

• Product intended to be launched on a national or international scale
• Product in extension of a range or of a performing brand at the SAQ
• Product having an enormous success in terms of sales in all the other provinces of Canada, in United States and elsewhere in the world

Procedural requirements

• All suppliers will have the opportunity to offer spirits in any time through the Web catalogue, outside the call for tenders process.
• The tenders must be filled in online. Registration fees will be the same as those that apply to Regular Product Call for tenders, i.e. CA$131.15 and are non-refundable.
• Suppliers will be contacted only if SAQ is interested in their offers.
• A product selected through the ‘'private agreements'' process can be the subject of negotiations between the SAQ and the supplier. If an agreement is reached, the product will be particularly subject to the rules of merchandising of the SAQ Procurement and Merchandising Policy applicable to a new regular product.
• 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.

To submit a product,

You must access the web portal you are subscribed to,

"Call for tenders" or ‘'My products'' tab

Section ‘'SAQ Catalog of offers''

Go to the end of the Call for tenders' description

Click on the "Add an offer" or ‘'Add an offer from an existing'' button in order to gnerate Alcoholic Product Submission Form

If you are not member of one of the transactional gateways, you can create an account, without fees, allowing you to submit your product. Please follow these steps:

• Access the www.saq-b2b.com online gateway
• Select the "Subscribe" tab
• Fill in all the required information about your company
• Check all required declaration and "Subscribe now"

Do not take in consideration the note: ''You will be contacted shortly by your Account Manager.''

Exchange rates

Please find hereafter the exchange rates applicable for this call for tenders when depositad online :

Other conditions

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

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.

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.