Search Notification - details

The Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) invites you to submit spontaneous offers for "Ready-to-drink - including coolers, sangrias, flavoured still and sparkling wines, and premixed cocktails" to be sold in its outlets for the 2014 summer campaign.

In order to fulfill the specific needs for the summer campaign 2014, the SAQ intends to select approximately SEVEN (7) products in the framework of this search notification within the different types of products (non-exhaustive list):

- Coolers

- Sangrias

- Flavoured still and sparkling wines

- Premixed cocktails

The products must meet the following criteria:

Availability: Minimum availability of 1,000 standard cases (9 litres)

Format: All formats

All Ready-to-drink, in format smaller than 473 ml, must be sold in packaging of 4 or 6 units.

The unit and/or the packaging must be designed to insure the inviolability of the container.

Promotional budget

A promotional budget is required to cover displays and promotion fees of 6.25% off the supplier price for all products selected for the summer campaign 2014 and must be registered in the section "Budget and others" of the submission form. If the product is selected, this budget will be invoiced directly to the supplier according to the number of cases bought by the SAQ.

IMPORTANT:

At the end of the summer campaign, if the SAQ finds it appropriate, one or more products of the campaign will be transferred to the regular product catalogue. As a result, the less performing products of this category, based on the evaluation period starting May 17 to July 26 2014, will be withdrawn from the catalogue and will be replaced by products that have performed the best during the summer campaign 2014. At the end of this exercise, the number of regular products in the category will remain the same.

Some products could be selected to be commercialised for specific events such as Cellier and others.

Order

For the selected products, the purchase order will be issued at the beginning of December 2013. Suppliers will have 30 days to be prepared to ship the order after the release of the purchase order. If the product is not ready to be shipped within the 30 days, it could have an impact on maintaining the product in the summer campaign and/or the commercialisation date in outlets.

The SAQ reserves the right to issue an additional order for certain products that have distinguished themselves from the group. All additional order to the initial purchase order does not confirm, at any moment, that the product will be transferred to the regular product catalogue.

Action plan

The products retained for the final selection must submit an action plan with a budget to liquidate all surplus inventories at the email address sara@saq.qc.ca. If the SAQ determines that certain products have surplus inventory during the campaign and that our sales previsions indicate that the stock will not be sold by August 24 2014, this action plan will automatically become effective in the outlets that were judged as having surplus inventory for the product on August 4 2014,

In the framework of this search notification, the SAQ reserves the right to select one or more products among the not selected offers in order to fill the needs of the SAQ Dépôt. In order to be considered for SAQ Dépôt, the offer will have to include a discount of at least 15% off the supplier price. This discount will result in the participation in the "scale reduction" offered to the customer.

General conditions

The SAQ will carry out the final selection in order to ensure the diversity and the complementary of the offer.

Offers submitted to the SAQ Catalogue of offers will be analysed starting June 14 2013.

The code CLR14 will have to be written in the cell "Sales Leaflet" of the section "Others" of the page "Notoriety". ATTENTION: Only offers with the code CLR14 will be considered within this search notification.

Only spontaneous offers duly completed and submitted online including a non-refundable payment of CA$198.60 by credit card will be considered.

For more details concerning how to complete the form, please do not hesitate to communicate with our Business Relations Assistance Service (SARA), either by mail at sara@saq.qc.ca or by phone at 514 254-2711.