Janitorial Services for the Pacific Environmental Science Centre (PESC)

BACKGROUND:

Environment and Climate Change Canada’s PESC is located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and has been in operation since November 1995. The Centre houses 4,000 square metres of analytical chemistry, environmental toxicology, microbiology and field laboratories and is comprised of the following five building blocks connected by way of links.

1. Block A – the Administrative Building (980 square metres)
2. Block B – the Field Operations Centre (1842 square metres)
3. Block C – the Aquatic Toxicity Lab (945 square metres)
4. Block D – the Inorganics Lab (945 square metres)
5. Block E – the Organics Lab (945 square metres)

   The Centre requires ongoing building cleaning and janitorial services while maintaining the integrity of laboratory operations.

SUMMARY OF WORK:

1. The Contractor must provide building cleaning and janitorial services at the PESC as detailed in Sections 3, 4 & 5 below and must supply sufficient and trained labour to perform the services in a satisfactory and complete manner The cleaning contract must include all of the PESC areas made up the five (5) building blocks and connecting links but must exclude following areas:

   1. Main Computer Room A110;

   2. Sample Storage Rooms A118, A119, A120 and A121;

   3. Storage Room B110;

   4. Inside Controlled Environment Chambers C106 to C117;

   5. Pumphouse;

   6. Cleaning of stationary and moveable equipment.

   Note: Within Block B (Field Operations Centre) there is a containment level 2 microbiology laboratory (Rooms B106, B107, B109, B111 and B112). The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Laboratory Bio-safety Guidelines require that unaccompanied janitorial staff entering Containment Level 2 laboratories be provided with adequate awareness training. This awareness training must include a 10 minute orientation session in the laboratory with a trained program Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) staff member and the requirement to read, understand and sign-off on an awareness training form that will be supplied by ECCC.

   A detailed Record of Scheduled Operations (Appendix 1 to Annex A) and Record of Requests/Complaints (Appendix 2 to Annex A) must be completed in order to maintain effective communication between the building cleaning and janitorial services provider and the PESC Technical Authority (TA).

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 Pacific Environmental Science Centre (PESC), 2645 Dollarton Hwy, North Vancouver, BC, on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. The site visit will begin at 9:00 am PST at the front doors.

Bidders must communicate with the Contracting Authority no later than Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 12:00 pm PST 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