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The art of System Thinking lies in being able to recognize dynamically complex and subtle structures amid the wealth of details, pressures, and cross currents that attend all real management settings.

We approach everything in business and management from the system viewpoint. System thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes.

The essence of mastering systems as a management discipline lies in seeng patterns where others see only events and forces to react to. It is a means for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static “snapshots”.

We specialize in procurement of government contracts, resource placing, business advisory, business process transformation.

OpenFrame Procurement is the acquisition of goods and/or services at the best possible total cost of ownership, in the right quality and quantity, at the right time, in the right place and from the right source for the direct benefit or use of corporations or governments.

Few forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision. It is a force that drives a group of people to advance not only quantitatively but also qualitatively.

In a corporation, a shared vision changes people’s relationship with the company. It is no longer “their company”, it becomes “our company”. When there is a genuine vision, people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.

Our Milestones

2009

OpenFrame Technologies is awared several direct services, Supply Arrangement, and Standing Offer contracts with Federal Government.

March 2009

OpenFrame Technologies receives a NATO Commercial and Government Entity Certification.

August 2008

OpenFrame Technologies receives a Certificate of Defense Logistics Agency for Militarily Critical Data Processing.

June 2008

OpenFrame Technologies becomes an authorized supplier to the U.S. Government.

April 2008

OpenFrame Technologies becomes an authorized supplier for the Government of Canada.

June, 2004

OpenFrame Technologies is registered as a federal corporation and signs its first contract with Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat.

Welcome to OpenFrame Procurement Site

OpenFrame Technologies Procurement branch provides internal divisions, partners, and subcontractors (individual and incorporated) with expert assistance at each stage of the supply cycle and offers tools that simplify and accelerate the acquisition of goods and services. It ensures that the partners exercise due diligence and maintain the integrity of the procurement process. OpenFrame Technologies provides customers with comprehensive services for acquiring complex and commercial goods and services. Purchases range from office supplies to military ships to security systems and everything in between. OpenFrame Technologies assists with identifying requirements and will carry out all steps in the procurement quickly and easily. These include: identifying the goods or services to be supplied; selecting the most effective procurement approach; developing appropriate evaluation criteria; preparing and submitting bids/proposals; negotiating contracts; debriefing for unsuccessful bids; and administering contracts and projects.

A specific mandate of OpenFrame Technologies is to establish and expand partnership relationships with many other industry associations involved with government procurement.

Contract Security

Each federal goverment contract has a specific level of confidentiality to protect interests of the government or citizens. Classified/Protected contracts are any contracts or formal agreements, which contains security clauses or which require or will require access to classified or protected information or assets by those associated with it.

It may include pre-contractual inquiries and negotiations. A contract may have a security requirement even though the contractual documents are not themselves protected or classified.

Protection levels are: Protected A, Protected B, Protected C, Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret, with several sub-levels, such as NATO, NATO Secret, Top Secret SIGINT, and Cosmic Top Secret.
Any consultant is required to undergo government security screening to be granted a specific level of clearance before commencing contractual work.

The security requirements associated with a Protected/Classified contract are identified on a Security Requirements Check List (SRCL) form, issued with government bid solicitation documents, and may be amplified by security clause(s) included in the contract document. The SRCL, Security and Protection of the Work clause, contained in the Industrial Security Section (Section 4) of the PWGSC Supply Manual and any accompanying amplifying remarks and security clauses in the contract, each form a legally binding part of the contract.

Prime contractors must ensure the security of all Protected/Classified information and assets placed with subcontractors. Contractors shall subcontract work only to companies holding a valid government Designated Organization Screening (DOS) or government Facility Security Clearance (FSC) of the type and at the level appropriate to the work to be performed under the contract.
A subcontractor must obtain Canadian Industrial Security Status Approval prior to being awarded a subcontract.
It is the responsibility of contractors to ensure the security of information and assets placed with subcontractors.

If you are not sure about this type of information you may consult our Security page.