The National Capital Real Property Division (NCRPD) of Health Canada requires services to verify its chemical fume hoods. All verifications are to be carried out in accordance with the CSA Z316.5-15 Fume Hoods and Associated Exhaust Systems standard, which includes ASHRAE 110-1995 Method of Testing Performance of Laboratory Fume Hoods.
NCRPD also intends to certify it's Biological Safety Cabinets at Health Canada laboratories in the NCR in accordance with NSF/ANSI 49-2014 Biosafety Cabinetry: Design, Construction, Performance, and Field Certification -Annex F.
Health Canada will only accept a testing procedure that can be reproduced, and follows the methodology set forth in the standard.
The type of equipment that will be used as well as the procedure will be a requirement of the resulting contract. This information is to be included in the Bidder's Proposal.
CON-TEST has had the contract since September 2013.
