Extension of the Central CO2 Dosing System at the Harrow Research and Development Centre

Invitation to tender 01B46-19-171

Extension of the Central CO2 Dosing System at the Harrow Research and Development Centre

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:

Harrow Research and Development Centre is a research facility of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and it is the location of one of the largest greenhouse research complex facilities in North America.

Currently the glass Venlo- and the double poly greenhouses situated on the North side of the property are equipped with a central CO2 dosing system. This system utilizes exhaust flue gasses from the on-site hot water boiler to increase CO2 concentration levels inside the growing compartments to research the effects of CO2 on plant growth and crop yields.

The Centre is planning to expand the central CO2 dosing system into the glass Venlo greenhouse situated on the South side of the property

Mandatory Site Visit:

 Firms intending to submit a proposal for this project MUST visit the work site. A MANDATORY site visit will be held on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 10:00AM EST at the Harrow Research and Development Centre located at 2585 County Road, Harrow, ON.

Attendance to this visit is MANDATORY. Participants shall present themselves ten minutes before the visit scheduled start time. The representative of the bidder will be required to sign the Site Visit Attendance Sheet at the site visit. Bids submitted by Bidders who have not signed the attendance sheet will not be accepted.

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: February 13, 2020 at 02:00 pm (EST).

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 service provider’s platform. Addenda, when issued, will be available from the BuyandSell service provider platform.

AAFC reserves the right to accept any Proposal in whole or in part, without prior negotiation and reject any or all Proposals

received.

AAFC Contract Officer:

Carol Rahal

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Corporate Management Branch
Assets Management, Eastern Service Centre

2001, Robert-Bourassa Street, suite 671-TEN
Montreal, QC, H3A 3N2
Email: carol.rahal@canada.ca