Life cycle assessment for large and complex scientific equipment
Solicitation number 10077568
Publication date
Closing date and time 2024/02/13 14:00 EST
Last amendment date
Description
The Federal Sustainable Development Strategy outlines the Government of Canada’s sustainable development goals. These goals are supported by the Greening Government Strategy, which outlines a set of commitments toward net-zero carbon, climate-resilient, and green operations. In a 2008 research report , scientific laboratories were reported to typically use five to ten times more energy per square meter than office buildings. Thus, improving the sustainability of federal laboratories is critical to achieving the Government of Canada’s greening goals.
In Budget 2022, the Government announced Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) would develop new tools, guidelines and targets to support the adoption of green procurement across the federal government. This work will assist with the transition to a net-zero, circular economy through green procurement, which includes life cycle assessment principles and the adoption of clean technologies and green products and services. Within PSPC, it is the Laboratories Canada initiative (Labs Canada) which will facilitate the greening of laboratories.
Among other specific actions, Labs Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have committed to identify the categories within the existing federal inventory of large and complex scientific equipment that have the Highest environmental impacts (HICATs). Once the HICATs are identified, the products within those categories will be analyzed for product-specific environmental impacts. The results of this two-part study will inform the development of measures to address Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to the procurement of scientific equipment across federal science laboratories (e.g. the development of procurement criteria).
Contract duration
The estimated contract period will be 12 month(s).
Trade agreements
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Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA)
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Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA)
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Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA)
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Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
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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Public Services and Procurement Canada
- Address
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11 Rue Laurier
Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0H3Canada
- Contracting authority
- Eric Beadury
- Phone
- (873) 355-4728
- Email
- eric.beaudry@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca
- Address
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11 Rue Laurier
Gatineau, QC,Canada
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.
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Amendment 002 RFP Q&A 10077568.pdf | 001 |
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Amendment 001 RFP Q&A 10077568.pdf | 001 |
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APM 10077568.pdf | 001 |
French
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10077568 NPP.pdf | 001 |
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10077568 DDP GGF.pdf | 001 |
French
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9 | |
10077568 - RFP - GGF_1.pdf | 001 |
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