Reesor Forks Trail Construction, Rouge National Urban Park

5P201-19-0091/A Reesor Forks Trail Construction, Rouge National Urban Park

Requirement

The Parks Canada Agency has proposed to construct and maintain a new multiuse trail within Rouge National Urban Park. The final, permanent footprint size approximately a 5km trail near the corner of Elgin Mills Road and Reesor Road. The trail is primarily a 2.4m wide gravel trail surface. There are also sections of raised boardwalk on helical piles required for crossing wet terrain. Staging areas are limited and defined in the project drawings. The construction footprint, including machinery, must remain within the trail corridor footprint. 

To assist with bonding and insurance requirements, this project is estimated at a value between $500,001 > $ 1,000,000 Taxes extra.

Delivery Date

The Contractor must perform the work from contract award and complete it no later than April 30 2020.

Mandatory Site Visit 

It is mandatory that the Bidder or a representative of the Bidder visit the work site. Arrangements have been made for the site visit to be held at the Reesor Welcome Area at 10725 Reesor Road on September 11, 2019. The site visit will begin at 10:00 a.m. local time.

Bidders must communicate with the Contracting Authority no later than 5:00 p.m. on September 10 2019 to confirm attendance and provide the name(s) of the person(s) who will attend. Bidders will be required to sign an attendance sheet. Bidders should confirm in their bid that they have attended the site visit. Bidders who do not attend the mandatory site visit or do not send a representative will not be given an alternative appointment and their bid will be declared non-responsive. Any clarifications or changes to the bid solicitation resulting from the site visit will be included as an amendment to the bid solicitation

Enquiries

All enquiries of a technical and contractual nature are to be submitted to the Contracting Authority.

Enquiries regarding this bid must be submitted in writing and should be received no later than five (5) business days prior to the date set for solicitation closing to allow sufficient time to provide a response. Enquiries received after that time may result in an answer NOT being provided.

Information

National Parks Regulations require that all work is to be performed in accordance with the ordinances, laws, rules and regulations set out in the National Park Act.

Bidders that consider themselves qualified to provide this Work and intend to submit bids on this project should obtain documents from the Government Electronic Tendering Service through the Government of Canada tendering service at www.buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders . Addenda, when issued, will be available from the Government of Canada tendering service. Bidders that elect to base their bids on documents obtained from other sources do so at their own risk. Late submissions will not be considered.

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.