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Samson & Associates was engaged as an FM to observe the competitive selection process for the Cyber Security Engineering Support Contract for the Land C4ISR System and to attest to the fairness, openness and transparency of this monitored activity. The Contractor must establish, operate and maintain a Security Operation Center in order to provide an active cyber defence capability, in close to real time (normally less than a day), of the core and deployed Land C4ISR systems.

Technical Investigation and Engineering Support.

Additional and New Security Assessment & Authorization support.

Episodic Cyber Security Monitoring Capability.

Security Assessment and Authorization Support.

Security Architecture and Safeguard Development.

The principle role of CSESC is to provide: The Department of National Defence (DND) has a requirement for CSESC for the Land C4ISR program.Īs cyber security elements of Land C4ISR are part of a continuously evolving system, it is expected the items and tasks required will change throughout the contract.

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It is our professional opinion that the activities we observed were carried out in a fair, open, and transparent manner. The Fairness Monitor hereby provides the following unqualified assurance statement concerning the competitive selection process for the Land C4ISR Cyber Security Engineering Support Contract up to the Request for Proposal Evaluation phase. This report includes our attestation of assurance, a summary of the scope and objectives of our assignment, the methodologies applied and relevant observations from the activities undertaken.

We hereby submit the final report, covering the activities of the FM, commencing with the issuance of the Letter of Interest (LOI) through to the close of the Request for Proposal (RFP) Evaluation phase of the competitive selection process.

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We had full access to all aspects of the procurement process and co-operation from all stakeholders. We reviewed all of the information provided and observed all relevant activities from the time of our involvement starting August 10, 2017. Samson & Associates is an independent third party with respect to this activity. Samson & Associates was engaged as a Fairness Monitor (FM) on August 10, 2017 to observe the competitive selection process for the Cyber Security Engineering Support Contract (CSESC) for the Land Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance System (Land C4ISR System), undertaken by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) on behalf of the Department of National Defence (DND) and issued as solicitation W8486-184083. Addendum to final report, August 12, 2019