INVITATION TO TENDER
Section #100 Manure Pit Repair
Sealed tenders for the project indicated above, addressed to the attention of the Contract Officer, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, will be accepted at the following address, up to the tender closing date and time indicated below:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Corporate Management Branch
Assets Management, Eastern Service Centre
TENDER RECEIVING UNIT
2001 Robert-Bourassa, suite 671-TEN
Montreal, QC, H3A 3N2
Scope of Work:
Perform corrective work to a foundation wall of a manure pit to stabilize it. This work includes excavation outside the wall, the construction of a new reinforced concrete wall (against the existing one), the installation of a foundation drain and rigid insulation, backfilling with granular material and profiling the ground surface for water evacuation. The new wall will have a thickness ranging from 100 mm at the base to about 200 mm at the top of the central portion and should be dowelled to the existing foundation slab and wall. The contractor shall provide temporary retaining structure support while moving the bases of columns and plan adding anchors.
Site Visit:
A site visit will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 9:30AM at the Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre at 2000 College, Sherbrooke, QC, J1M 0C8. Offerors who do not attend or send a representative will not be given an alternative appointment but they will not be precluded from submitting a bid. Any clarifications or changes to the bid solicitation resulting from the site visit will be included as an amendment to the bid solicitation and will be posted on buyandsell.gc.ca.
Tender Period Closing Date and Time: October 2, 2015 at 02:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time).
AAFC will not necessarily accept the lowest or any tender.
Information requests and inquiries related to this tender process are to be directed, in writing, ONLY to the AAFC Contract Officer identified below. Bidders who contact anyone other than the AAFC Contract Officer to obtain such information during the solicitation period may, for that reason alone, be disqualified.
It is MANDATORY for the Firms intending to submit tenders on this project to obtain the related specifications, plans and drawings, and all other tender documents through the buyandsell.gc.ca service provider. Addenda, when issued, will be available from the buyandsell.gc.ca service provider.
AAFC Contract Officer:
Gabrielle Raina Plouffe
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Corporate Management Branch
Assets Management, Eastern Service Centre
2001, Robert-Bourassa, suite 671-TEN
Montreal, QC, H3A 3N2
Email: g••••••••@•••.••.ca
