Trade Agreement: CETA / CFTA
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements:
PROJECT NO. R.095968.002
TITLE: St. Clair and Detroit Rivers Navigational Dredging
Southeast Bend Cutoff
Channel Maintenance Dredging 2018
Public Services and Procurement Canada, on behalf of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian Coast Guard has a requirement for navigational dredging at the Southeast Bend Cutoff Channel, St. Clair River, Ontario.
The scope of work includes navigational dredging at the South East Bend Cutoff Channel, St. Clair River, Ontario and disposal of dredged material. The site of the dredging work is south of Seaway Island on St. Clair River and the disposal site for the dredged material is at the Dickinson Island West Confined Disposal Facility in Michigan, USA. All work shall be in accordance with Project No. R095968.002 Contract Drawings and Specifications.
Work of this contract comprises of (Dredging and disposal quantities are approximately):
- Scenario A (Dredge Area E4A) 6,002 cubic meters placement measurement (CMPM)
- Scenario B (Dredge Areas E4A and E4B) 10,001 cubic meters placement measurement (CMPM)
- Scenario C (Dredge Areas E4A, E4B and E4C) 14,002 cubic meters placement measurement (CMPM)
Note: A decision to award a contract for the Required Services shall be on Scenario ?A?, ?B? or ?C? and shall be at the Crown’s discretion and subject to funding availability.
The dredging locations are detailed in the attached Detailed Design drawings (Drawings MA-00 to MA-04). The material is to be placed in the USACE Dickinson Island West CDF as outlined in the Detailed Design drawings (Drawing MA-05).
Dredge samples will be collected from the dredge transport vessels throughout the duration of the construction period as well as continuous real-time turbidity monitoring for dredging in daylight hours. The Contractor is to provide a suitable boat, crew and monitoring equipment to execute this additional monitoring. Monitoring set-up shall be such that site instructions can be issued to the Contractor to stop work or change dredging methods within two (2) minutes of turbidity exceedances by the Contractor.
The dredging site is an open navigation area. Any work at and around the dredging site is subject to ongoing commercial and recreational navigation. The contractor shall be responsible for health and safety for all of its team members on site, and for protection of the general public and government employees adjacent to the site to the extent that they may be affected by conduct of the field work. The standards, codes and regulations for the dredging and disposal work shall be the latest edition of the following (including all amendments, supplements and revisions thereto):
a. National Building Code of Canada
b. Current dredging and disposal best practices.
c. Federal and Provincial Environmental Regulations
d. Canada and Provincial Occupational Health and Safety Regulations
e. Canada Labour Code (including latest revisions of all regulations)
f. Provincial and Municipal Traffic Acts and Regulations
SITE VISIT
There is no scheduled site visit for this project.
COMPLETION TIME
The Contractor shall perform and complete the work within 10 weeks from the date of notification of acceptance of the offer.
REGISTRY AND PRE-QUALIFICATIONS OF FLOATING PLANT
In order to comply with clause GI06, Registry and Pre-qualification of Floating Plant, of the General Instructions to bidders R2710T:
Dredges or other floating plant to be used in the performance of the Work must be on Canadian or European Union member state registry, having in the latter case been granted a temporary license under the Coasting Trade Act. For dredges or other floating plant that are not of Canadian or European Union member state make or manufacture, the Bidder must obtain a certificate of qualification from Industry Canada as described in the Floating Plant Appendix of the Bid and Acceptance Form, and this certificate must accompany the bid. Plant so qualified by Industry Canada may be accepted on this project.
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS
Bidders must meet all the mandatory requirements specified in the tender document. Failure to comply with any or all the mandatory requirements will render the bid non-compliant and no other consideration will be given to the bid.
QUESTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS AND CHANGES
Any clarifications or changes to the bid solicitation resulting from the site visit will be included as an amendment to the bid solicitation.
ENQUIRIES
All enquiries of a technical and contractual nature, are to be submitted to the Contracting Officer, Mary Caporusso m••••••••@••••••••.••.ca.
Telephone: (416) 512-5859, Facsimile: (416) 512-5862
Delivery Date: 10/09/2018
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
