DESCRIPTION:The National Capital Commission (NCC) is seeking a contractor to perform all Maintenance services pertaining to the bridge systems of the Hog’s Back Swing Bridge with the objective of maintaining consistent quality standards.The bridge systems need to be maintained in a safe and reliable operational condition and continually be available for operation during its mandated Navigational operating season. Any systems failures or malfunctions shall receive immediate repair.TERM:The term of the resulting Contract will be for a period of five (5) consecutive years commencing on May 15 and ending October 30 from 2023 to 2027.The Contractor grants to the NCC the irrevocable option to extend the term of the Contract by up to one (1) additional one-year period under the same terms and conditions.MANDATORY SITE VISIT:A MANDATORY site visit will be held on February 28, 2023 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST). Bidders must confirm their attendance by email to the Contracting Authority at m••••••••@•••••••.ca no later than February 24, 2023 at noon.All costs incurred by the Bidder to attend the site visit will be at their expense. The NCC will not reimburse any Bidder for expenses related to the site visit.BID DEADLINE:No later than 3 p.m. DST on March 29, 2023 by email at B••••••••@•••••••.ca with a reference to tender file #MA064.INQUIRIES:To ensure the integrity of this Contract/RFSO process, all enquiries and other communications must be directed only to Micheline Al-Koutsi, Senior Contract Officer by email at m••••••••@•••••••.ca no later than March 7, 2023 in order to be considered by the NCC.Throughout the Invitation to tender/Contract process bidding process, the NCC shall endeavour to provide responses to inquiries (by the issuance of addenda) deemed relevant by the NCC and received in writing by the Contracting Authority. Only information provided in addenda shall be an integral part of the Contract and any resulting standing offer.All addenda will be posted on canadabuys.canada.ca.Interested proponents must not contact any other employee of the NCC, or other persons involved in this solicitation to discuss questions regarding the Contract process. Non-compliance with this requirement during the solicitation period may, for that reason alone, result in disqualification of a proponent.Note: The bid email has a maximum capacity of 30 megabytes.Faxed and hard copy (submitted in person or via mail/courier) bids will not be accepted for the subject bid solicitation.There is no public opening scheduled.BASIS OF SELECTION:An offer must comply with all the requirements of the tender and meet the mandatory requirements to be declared responsive.The Responsive offer with the lowest total evaluated price will be recommended for issuance of a contract.The official Government Electronic Tendering Service website is canadabuys.canada.ca.Please ensure that you download your document from this site, in order to obtain all information related to the tender. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have received all the posted tender information to ensure tender compliance and not be disqualified.TRADE AGREEMENTS:The procurement process of this contract is subject to trade agreements listed below.
