Decarbonizing Pathways for Canada’s Agriculture Sector
Solicitation number 5000082484
Publication date
Closing date and time 2024/12/09 14:00 EST
Last amendment date
Description
Environment and Climate Change Canada has a requirement for the Decarbonizing Pathways for Canada’s Agriculture Sector as detailed in the Statement of Work, Annex “A” to the bid solicitation. The period of the contract is from contract award to March 31, 2025, inclusively.
The objective of this project is to:
a. Identify current and possible pathways for decarbonization.
b. Identify the infrastructure needs for the decarbonized equipment, including an analysis of capital costs, electricity demand and capacity, typical grid connection type, carbon intensity of electricity sourced from utilities, and any necessary installation and maintenance of on-site power generation (i.e., solar, wind, hydrogen, etc.) and storage.
c. Identify challenges and market barriers to the adoption of zero-emission technologies and clean fuels for agricultural equipment in Canada.
d. Compare the cost, GHG emissions and air pollutant emissions of comparable fossil fueled combustion, clean fuels combustion and zero-emission agricultural equipment.
e. Identify the current market availability of technologies identified in the pathways for decarbonization (Canada, North America, Europe, Asia, etc.)
f. Identify equipment utilization/operation profiles, including operation site(s) location(s) and typical infrastructure availability, operation duty cycle(s), typical operation load(s).
Contract duration
The estimated contract period will be 4 month(s).
Trade agreements
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Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA)
Reason for limited tendering
A contracting officer can use limited tendering for specific reasons outlined in the applicable trade agreements. The reason for this contract is described below:
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None
Contact information
Contracting organization
- Organization
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Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Address
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351 Saint-Joseph Blvd
Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0H3Canada
- Contracting authority
- Marie Josée Lachance
- Phone
- (819) 307-2555
- Email
- marie-josee.lachance@ec.gc.ca
Bidding details
Full details regarding this tender opportunity are available in the documents below. Click on the document name to download the file. Contact the contracting officer if you have any questions regarding these documents.
Document title | Amendment no. | Language | Unique downloads | Date added |
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RFP# 5000082484_Amendment 1 (EN).pdf | 001 |
English
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19 | |
RFP# 5000082484_Amendment 1 (FR).pdf | 001 |
French
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4 | |
5000082484_APM.pdf | 001 |
French
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17 | |
5000082484_NPP.pdf | 001 |
English
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54 | |
5000082484_DDP_Voies de décarbonation pour le secteur agricole du Canada.pdf | 001 |
French
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9 | |
5000082484_RFP_Decarbonizing Pathways for Canada’s Agriculture Sector_0.pdf | 001 |
English
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75 |
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