Visitor Experience Planning, Design, Fabrication and Installation for the New Rouge Gateway

5P300-20-0005/A Title – National Park

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REQUIREMENT

Parks Canada requires a visitor experience design firm to provide turnkey design-build services for the new Rouge Gateway — the flagship visitor, learning and community centre for Rouge National Urban Park (RNUP) in Toronto, ON.

The Rouge Gateway project is being accomplished via a two-pronged parallel approach that involves both a) architectural and engineering (A+E) design-bid-build services and b) visitor experience turnkey design-build services. This RFP is for the turnkey planning, concept development, content development, design, fabrication, shipping, installation, training and warranty of the visitor experience elements that will be offered within and around the visitor centre, including a range of associated outdoor experiential elements.

Period of Contract / DELIVERY DATE

The period of the Contract is from date of Contract to May 31, 2025.

BIDDERS’ CONFERENCE

A bidders’ conference will be held at via Google Meets on August 17, 2020. The conference will begin at 1:00 pm EDT. The scope of the requirement outlined in the bid solicitation will be reviewed during the conference and questions will be answered. It is recommended that bidders who intend to submit a bid attend or send a representative.

Bidders are requested to communicate with the Pat Alguire at pat.alguire@canada.ca before the conference to confirm attendance and receive the Google Meets meeting details. Bidders should provide, in writing the name(s) of the person(s) who will be attending and a list of issues they wish to table no later than August 14, 2020 at 2 pm EDT.

Any clarifications or changes to the bid solicitation resulting from the bidders’ conference will be included as an amendment to the bid solicitation. Bidders who do not attend will not be precluded from submitting a bid.

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 ten (10) calendar 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.