Offre à commandes – Services d'affrètement d'aéronefs à voilure tournante

Background
Fisheries & Oceans Canada (DFO) conducts multiple aerial inspections of salmon streams in the interior of British Columbia (BC) to estimate spawning population sizes for Chinook, Sockeye and Coho salmon. DFO also conducts multiple enforcement patrols and aerial inspections for creel and catch monitoring counts. Flying for these purposes is very specialized. Therefore, DFO requires the use of rotary-wing aircraft that meet specific performance and configuration requirements and requires that the pilots have related flying experience.

Bases of Operation (points of flight origin):
1) Prince George, BC
2) Kamloops, BC
3) Lillooet, BC

Summary
One Standing Offer may be issued for each Base of Operation listed in the Statement of Work.

The period of the Standing Offer will be from April 1st, 2014 to March 31st, 2015 with possibility of two additional one year option periods at the discretion of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. It should be noted that a Standing Offer to provide rotary-wing aircraft charter services shall be on an as and when required basis. Standing offers are not a guarantee of business and Fisheries and Oceans Canada is not obligated to use these services.

The Contractor must perform the Work in accordance with the Statement of Work.

Tender documents MUST be downloaded from www.buyandsell.gc.ca . Those who submit a bid agree to be bound by the instructions, clauses and conditions of the bid solicitation and accept the clauses and conditions of any resulting standing offer or contract.

For further information, please contact the Contracting Authority, Trudy Scott by email at D••••••••@•••••••.••.ca .