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Questions and answers
The questions a firm asks before writing, answered the way the rest of this site answers them.
What does Duly Qualified do?
Two things. It gets IT and professional services firms onto the federal supply arrangements that gate their work - TBIPS, SBIPS, TSPS, ProServices and THS - as a fixed-scope project. Then, for firms that are qualified, it sends a short weekly list of opportunities marked bid, do not bid or watch, each with a reason, each kept. How a qualification project runs
Do you write bids?
No. Qualification gets you into the pool; the bids inside it are yours. A firm that outsources its own proposals stops learning what its buyers want.
Can you guarantee we will be qualified?
No, and no one honest can. PSPC evaluates against a published grid and decides. What we control is that the submission answers the grid in its own words, that the deficiency cycle is worked to the end, and that you know before starting which vehicle your record can actually evidence.
Where does the information about our firm come from?
Published federal procurement data: CanadaBuys tender and award notices, federal contract history, and the PSPC standing-offer and supply-arrangement holder list, used as published. Every line in a report can be checked against its source.
The report says we are absent from a vehicle we hold. What now?
Then the report is wrong, and we want to know. PSPC does not publish holder lists for the professional-services vehicles, so “absent” means no award under that vehicle names your firm in the public record - evidence of absence, not proof. Tell us and the record is corrected.
How is a weekly verdict decided?
Deterministic rules against your profile - categories, regions, value bands, certifications, clearance, the things that rule you out - draft the list. An advisor reviews it and decides, and every verdict is written to a ledger that cannot be edited. What a week looks like
What does it cost?
The gap report, the digest and the tracker are free. Weekly judgment is $450 a month, before taxes, and that is the whole figure. A qualification project is a fixed fee agreed after the gap report, billed in three milestones; write to us and you get a number, not a call. Pricing
Is the free digest the same as the subscription?
No. The digest is free and covers the market as a whole: the notices that mattered this week and why. The subscription is the same reasoning aimed at your firm, with a verdict on each notice and a record kept. The digest is the fair way to see how the reasoning reads before paying for it. The digest archive
How are our documents handled?
Résumés, corporate records and security forms are encrypted before storage, served only to your own account, and deleted automatically when their retention clock runs out - two years for résumés and security forms, seven for corporate records - with a record of the deletion. They are seen only by the people doing the work. The privacy policy has the whole table
Do you work in French?
Yes, structurally. Every page of this site, every report and every verdict exists in both languages, and a page missing its French does not publish.
How many clients do you take?
A limited number at a time, so each submission gets the attention it needs. If the honest answer is that there is no capacity until a given month, that is the answer you get. The weekly subscription scales further than projects do, because the software drafts and advisors decide.
Who is behind it?
Duly Qualified was founded in Toronto by Edison Sinani, who built the product and operates it. About the practice