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Call for Tenders - details
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| Appel d’offres«Produit courant – Février 2009» / Call for tenders "Regular product - February 2009" |
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| Product Line: | All Categories | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Expiration Date: | 2008/11/27 (YYYY/MM/DD) | Time Left: | Expired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) invites you to submit tenders for REGULAR PRODUCTS – FEBRUARY 2009 analysis period to be sold in its network of outlets. Your tenders filled in online including the non-refundable payment of CA$128.75 by credit card, must be submitted BY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Montreal local time - Québec (Canada) AT THE LATEST. WARNING Please note of the NEW General criteria and other conditions mentioned after the specific needs. The SAQ intends to retain approximately 20 products for this call for tenders. Among these products, it wishes to fulfill the following specific needs: CANADA – ONE (1) red or white wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price: CA $ 11.95 or more Producer non represented in the General Catalogue VQA mention, limited to the provinces of Ontario and British Colombia CHILE – WHITE - ONE (1) wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 12.50 and CA $ 13.50 CHILE – RED - ONE (1) wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail: more than CA $ 13.25 Varietal: Carmenère VARIOUS COUNTRIES WHITE – ONE (1) wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Origin: Eastern Europe Suggested retail price between CA $ 9.75 and CA $ 11.95 UNITED STATES WHITE – ONE (1) wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price: CA $ 14.50 and more Single varietal: non represented in the category in the General Catalogue FRANCE – OTHER REGION – ONE (1) wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 12.75 and CA $ 17.95 Origin: Provence and Corsica FRANCE – BEAUJOLAIS – ONE (1) wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 15.50 and CA $ 19.95 Appellations: Morgon, Moulin-à-vent, Chénas, Chiroubles, Fleurie, Juliénas and Saint-amour FRANCE – BOURGOGNE – WHITE - ONE (1) wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 16.95 and CA $ 22.75 FRANCE - BOURGOGNE – RED - ONE (1) wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 15.95 and CA $ 24.95 FRANCE - BORDEAUX - RED - ONE (1) wine accompanying meal ONE (1) wine of château or domain Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 19.45 and CA $ 22.45 FRANCE - SOUTH-WEST - ONE (1) red wine accompanying meal Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 15.95 and CA $ 24.95 Appellation: Madiran, Gaillac PORTUGAL – TWO (2) wines accompanying meal distributed as follows: ONE (1) white wine Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 10.45 and CA $ 12.45 Appellation: Douro ONE (1) red wine Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 12.95 and CA $ 15.95 LIQUOR AND CREAM ONE (1) maple flavoured alcoholic beverage cream (Between 7 and 22,9 % alc./vol.) Format: 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 24.95 and CA $ 29.95 WHISKY SCOTLAND – TWO (2) whiskies distributed as follows: ONE (1) blend type Format: 750 ml or Suggested retail price between CA $ 22.95 and CA $ 27.95 for the equivalent of a 750 ml format ONE (1) single malt type Format: 700 ml or 750 ml Suggested retail price between CA $ 45.00 and CA $ 70.00 Selection criteria Financial performance Notoriety Sustainable development Quality aspects Variety of proposals SAQ will make the final selection in order to optimize the variety offered to our consumers and to consider the trends of its market as well as the relative importance of the various categories. General criteria and other conditions Please note that your tender may also be considered for the SAQ Dépôt banner. To be so, it is requested to indicate the authorized discount (minimum 15%) in the Supplier’s Price section from the Product and Offer tab of the Alcoholic Product Submission Form. You may submit a product proposal directly online through the web portal you are subscribed to, under the “Call for tenders” tab. 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. Product of certified biological cultures The products must be resulted from biological cultures certified by an Organic Certification Body. The Certification Body has to be recognized by the Conseil des appellations et des termes valorisants (CARTV). The list of the authorized Certifying Bodies is available on the CARTV site, at: www.cartvquebec.com. The products have to meet the labelling specific standards of the CARTV available on the CARTV web site: www.cartvquebec.com. The name of the Certification Body must be written into Section E of the form. Proof of certification will be required later on. The lifetime of the products will be reasonably long in order to perform the marketing of the products in reasonable delays. Estimated product lifetime: at least one (1) year from the pick up of the orders. Alternative Packaging 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, the suppliers will have to fill the Special requirements for the alternative packaging form, when their offer is retained by the final selection process and also before the commercialization of the product. The lifetime of the products will be reasonably long in order to perform the marketing of the products in reasonable delays. The supplier will be responsible to provide the information as for the lifespan of their product and will be, thereafter, ascribable to it. All the expenses concerning the collect or the destruction of the out-of-date inventory will be 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. Sales Target The amounts of reference to be used for the calculation of the annual sales goals are the Minimum of sales by universe, into force on March 29, 2009, published on September 30, 2008. 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 November 12, 2008. We kindly request that you always mention this information when contacting the Société des alcools du Québec, regarding the present call for tenders.
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 proposals 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 proposal of a product even if it corresponds to a specific need listed in this call for tenders. The SAQ will not assume any expenditure incurred by the recipient, concerning the preparation and the submission its offer. All the received offers, all the documents and other items received during the treatment of the proposal 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. For more information about how to fill out the form, please contact our Business Relations Assistance Department (Service d’Assistance aux Relations d’Affaires - SARA) by phone, at: 514-254-2711 or by email at: sara@saq.qc.ca. In order to avoid any confusion, please wait for SAQ’s answer and instructions before sending the required labels and samples. For more details concerning SAQ Procurement and Merchandising Policy and Standards, please visit our website, at www.saq-b2b.com/, under the Policy and Standards tab. |
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