Placing, lifting / removal, maintaining and the servicing of Buoys in the Province of New Brunswick.

1. PURPOSE

Placing, lifting / removal, maintaining and the servicing of Buoys in the Province of New Brunswick.

2. INTRODUCTION

Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) sector requires services related to the provision of placing, lifting/removal, maintaining and servicing of buoys through local contractors. 

3. OBJECTIVES OF THE REQUIREMENT

The Canadian Coast Guard, Marine Navigation Services establishes aids to navigation that assist vessels to navigate safely through our waterways. The program benefits pleasure craft, fishing and commercial vessels, and ensures the public's right to navigate. Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) Marine Services (MS) is mandated to keep waters accessible by providing aids to navigation, developing waterways, and protecting navigable waters.

The Canadian Coast Guard is contracting out for the provision of placing, lifting/removal; maintaining and servicing of the following buoys as per the attached documents.

4. SCOPE OF WORK:

The Contractor will be require to:

1. Provide their own vessel to complete this requirement.
2. Place buoys on position in accordance with navigational requirements using DGPS when required (seasonal or year-round);
3. Maintain buoys on position and in operation;
4. Change lanterns as required
5. Lift, remove, or change buoys as required.

5. TASKS, ACTIVITIES, DELIVERABLES AND MILESTONES

Upon contract award, the contractor is required to complete the contractor profile document that will be provided by the Project Authority.

Upon contract award the contractor is required to inspect all buoys and equipment listed in the Annex B and report any discrepancies/defects to the Aids to Navigation Operations Office/Project Authority.

Following initial inspection, the Contractor shall respond to all discrepancies/outages regarding buoys once notified of the outage and report a plan to respond to the Aids to Navigation Operations Office/Project Authority.

The Contractor shall inspect all buoys after periods of abnormally bad weather, ice conditions, etc., if the Contractor has reason to believe the buoys in his/her area may have been adversely affected, to determine that they are in their correct positions and that the lights etc. are functioning. 

Buoy positions shall be checked using the methods provided on the Buoy Data Sheets.

The Contractor shall change components as necessary to maintain the operation of the lights and buoys including removing old and replacing with new components such as lanterns, moorings and reflective material.

Should a buoy be removed from a contract area permanently an amendment will be issued to the contractor reducing the amount of the Contract. Likewise, should a buoy be added to the contract area an amendment will be issued increasing the amount of the Contract. Amounts will be based on prices indicated in Annex B – Basis of Payment.

In the 2^nd option year or fourth year of the Contract, if exercised, the contractor is responsible for checking all buoys in their area for position and operation and will be required to provide reports to the Aids to Navigation Operations Officer. These checks will have to be done in the last 30 days of the end of the Contract.

NOTE: Canada reserves the right to award multiple contracts resulting from this RFP. No more than one contract will be issued per location. Contractors could be issued a contract for provision of services for one or multiple locations. Each location will be evaluated individually.