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Department of Employment and Social Development (ESDC)

Request for Information (RFI) Mail courier services for Service Canada Centres in Marathon and Geraldton Ontario

Name: Request for Information (RFI) Mail courier services for Service Canada Centres in Marathon and Geraldton Ontario
Creator: Department of Employment and Social Development (ESDC)

Other

Estimated value

Not disclosed

Deadline

September 18, 2026

Published

August 18, 2026

Type

Services

Full description

Amendment #2 is raised to include questions from the industry and provide responses from the project authority. Please see document 100032247_1_Q&A.pdf in documents.

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Amendment #1 is raised to change the Inquiries deadline, addenda deadline and submission deadline.

Submission Deadline: September 18, 2026, at 2:00 pm EDT
Enquiry Deadline: September 2, 2026, at 2:00 pm EDT
Addenda (Answers Provided) Deadline: September 11, 2026, at 2:00 pm EDT

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The Strategic Operational Services Directorate of Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Ontario Region is seeking information on the feasibility of providing courier services from two Service Canada Centres (SCC) in Ontario to four delivery locations—three in Ontario (Chatham, North York, Timmins) and Surrey, British Columbia. Deliveries must be completed within one to three business days, depending on the destination.

The objective is to solicit input and options variety of potential vendors in the industry to determine the feasibility of performing the delivery of mail and mail items from Ontario to specified locations.

Selection criteria

Not applicable

AI Summary

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Basic information

Reference

cb-269-7609194

Solicitation no.

100032247

Buyer

Department of Employment and Social Development (ESDC)

Notice type

Request for Information

Method

Competitive - Open bidding

Procurement category

*SRV

Trade agreements

*None

Estimated value

Not disclosed

Source

canadabuys

Classification & terms

UNSPSC

UNSPSC 78000000 — Transportation and Storage and Mail Services

Delivery & regions

Regions of opportunity

*Ontario (except NCR)

Regions of delivery

*Canada *Ontario (except NCR)

Key dates

Published

August 18, 2026

Closes

September 18, 2026

Amendment no.

003

Amendment date

August 26, 2026

Contact

Contact

S•••••••• L•••••

Email

n••••••••@••••••••.••.ca

Phone

(999) •••-••••

Address

••• •••••••• •• •••••••, ••••••••, ••, ••• •••, ••••••

Documents

(1)

↓ 100032247_1_rfi_e_0.pdf

Complete source record(33)

Title

Request for Information (RFI) Mail courier services for Service Canada Centres in Marathon and Geraldton Ontario

Reference number

cb-269-7609194

Amendment number

003

Solicitation number

100032247

Publication date

2026-08-18

Tender closing date

2026-09-18T14:00:00

Amendment date

2026-08-26

Tender status

Open

Unspsc

*78100000 *78102200

Unspsc description

*Mail and cargo transport *Postal and small parcel and courier services

Procurement category

*SRV

Notice type

Request for Information

Procurement method

Competitive - Open bidding

Selection criteria

Not applicable

Trade agreements

*None

Regions of opportunity

*Ontario (except NCR)

Regions of delivery

*Canada *Ontario (except NCR)

Contracting entity name

Department of Employment and Social Development (ESDC)

Contracting entity address line

140 Promenade du portage

Contracting entity address city

Gatineau

Contracting entity address province

Contracting entity address postal code

K1A 0J9

Contracting entity address country

Canada

Contact info name

S•••••••• L•••••

Contact info email

n••••••••@••••••••.••.ca

Contact info phone

(999) •••-••••

Contact info address line

••• •••••••• •• •••••••

Contact info city

••••••••

Contact info province

••

Contact info postalcode

••• •••

Contact info country

••••••

Attachment

https://canadabuys.canada.ca/sites/default/files/webform/tender_notice/103977/100032247_rfi_e.pdf,https://canadabuys.canada.ca/sites/default/files/webform/tender_notice/103977/100032247_1_rfi_e.pdf,https://canadabuys.canada.ca/sites/default/files/webform/tender_notice/103977/100032247_1_rfi_e_0.pdf

Tender description

Amendment #2 is raised to include questions from the industry and provide responses from the project authority. Please see document 100032247_1_Q&A.pdf in documents. ******************************************************************************************************************** Amendment #1 is raised to change the Inquiries deadline, addenda deadline and submission deadline. Submission Deadline: September 18, 2026, at 2:00 pm EDT Enquiry Deadline: September 2, 2026, at 2:00 pm EDT Addenda (Answers Provided) Deadline: September 11, 2026, at 2:00 pm EDT ******************************************************************************************************************* The Strategic Operational Services Directorate of Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Ontario Region is seeking information on the feasibility of providing courier services from two Service Canada Centres (SCC) in Ontario to four delivery locations—three in Ontario (Chatham, North York, Timmins) and Surrey, British Columbia. Deliveries must be completed within one to three business days, depending on the destination. The objective is to solicit input and options variety of potential vendors in the industry to determine the feasibility of performing the delivery of mail and mail items from Ontario to specified locations.