Trade Agreement: CETA / WTO-AGP / CPTPP / CFTA / FTAs with Peru / Colombia / Panama / Korea
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited to bid
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Interchangeable Parts
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address:
Lotek Wireless Inc.
115 Pony Drive
Newmarket Ontario
Canada
L3Y7B5
Nature of Requirements:
1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN)
An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier.
2. Definition of the requirement
The Department of Environment and Climate Change has a requirement to track the movements and behaviour birds across North America.
Many bird populations are declining across North America but these declines vary in magnitude across the various parts of the breeding, migration and wintering range. Information on the migratory connectivity and stopover ecology of these birds is needed to understand and address the causes of decline. Environment and Climate Change Canada has been working with Canadian and International partners to establish effective monitoring programs and recovery strategies for these populations.
The resulting coordinated hemispheric network of receivers, known as the MOTUS Wildlife Tracking Network, allows the tracking of all migratory bird species and is among world's most ambitious bird tracking initiatives. Key to the success of the MOTUS tracking network is that all radio receivers in the network are scanning on the same radio frequency and are using radio receiving antennas specifically sized/tuned to the shared scanning frequency, so that individuals flying by a receiving station are not missed.
Environment and Climate Change Canada has several projects that have made use and are currently making use of this MOTUS network, and we operate a large number of receiver stations throughout Canada. In the years to come, VHF tags compatible with this network will be deployed on several shorebird and land bird species. Results will provide rigorous estimates of length of stay, required for effective monitoring at these sites, as well as enhanced knowledge of migratory behaviour, including migration routes, flight altitudes, migratory connectivity (i.e., the degree to which individuals of the same species are using the same migration sites) and determine how range and migration behaviour influences population trends.
GPS based units will also be deployed. They can acquire location fixes with an accuracy of m. This is important for identifying habitats used during breeding, but more importantly, during the migration and wintering periods, as well as helping to delineate migration routes and wintering areas. The smallest units archive information and are referred to as data archiving units. Data archiving GPS tags must be retrieved for data download. Alternatively, new GPS tracking devises that transmit data to Argos satellites are now available powered by traditional batteries as well as small solar cells.
3. Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities (Minimum Essential Requirements)
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that its product/equipment meets the following requirements:
a) We require that the supplier has more than 10 years of experience manufacturing coded VHF telemetry and GPS technologies.
b) Given the small body size of many bird species of conservation concern
(e.g.,
