Supply chain verifiable digital credentials

Supply chain verifiable digital credentials is now accepting an application. Shared Services Canada (SSC) and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) are seeking a solution that will provide the supply chain with verified digital credentials and digital product passports to achieve full end-to-end product digital transparency, reduce costs, and help prevent supply chain fraud.

The challenge is to provide the supply chain with verified digital credentials and digital product passports to achieve full end-to-end transparency of goods and reduce costs across the entire supply chain from production all the way to the customer. With end-to-end digital processes, Verified Digital Credentials will completely revamp the entire supply chain process and help prevent supply chain fraud, through traceability, document digitization and authenticity, greater data security, and accuracy.

Eligibility

The proposed solution must:

• Digitize supply chain documents with tamper-proof verified credentials
• Offer Identification, authentication, and authorization for supply chain contents
• Fully support Universal Bill of lading (BoL), e-BoL
• Fully support Universal Certificate of Origin (C/O), e-C/O, or Declaration of Origin (DOO), e-DOO
• Fully support Universal Air Waybill (AWB), e-AWB
• Operate across a minimum of two different problem domains (domains may be related or within the same industry)
• Host multi-tenant mobile and web platforms
• Be a fully Digital Data Sharing that provides End-to-End visibility on shipments contents to all stakeholders
• Plug and play integration independently of the supply chain contents
• Incorporate emerging and/or mature specifications for interoperability that have been funded, tested and/or championed by the United States of America Department of Homeland Security, such as: Decentralized Identifiers (Standards Development Organizations: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) or Decentralized Identity Foundation); Verifiable Credentials (Standards Development Organization-W3C); JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data/JSON-LD (Standards Development Organization-W3C); and ISO/IEC 18013-5 based verifiable digital credentials
• Demonstrate the feasibility of the specifications described above in support of creating, transmitting, and storing verifiable digital credentials using wallet or agent reference implementations. These reference implementations may include but not are limited to: Blockcerts, Hyperledger Indy Aries, etc.

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Benefits

Verified Digital Credential supply chain documents need to be accessible to non-experts in various industries and domains. For example, verifiable digital credentials should be ubiquitously accessible and usable by anyone in the supply chain system to:

• Easily manage and interface with supply chain documentation and determine if tampering has occurred during shipment
• Corroborate any claims made about the packaging or contents therein

Although accommodating all possible domains is unrealistic, solutions entered in this Challenge will be required to interoperate across a minimum of two different problem domains (see Background and Context section).

Application Process

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