Volcanic Situations Duty Officer to Respond to Enquiries/Provide Advice on an ‘As Required’ Basis for Volcanic Situations Affecting Canada

By means of this RFP, NRCan is seeking proposals from bidders to maintain its ability to respondto emergency and urgent volcanic situations when the GSC volcanologist is unavailable. TheCanadian Hazards Information Service (CHIS) of NRCan (CHIS) wants to retain an on-callvolcanologist to provide this service as required.

"There are security requirements associated with this requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security, Financial and Other Requirements, and Part 7 - Resulting Contract Clauses. For more information on personnel and organization security screening or security clauses, bidders should refer to the Industrial Security Program (ISP) of Public Works and Government Services Canada (http://ssi-iss.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/index-eng.html) website”.

"The requirement is subject to the provisions of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement, the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA), and the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)”.

The period of the contract shall be for twelve (12) months with the option to extend the period of the contract for up to five (5) additional twelve (12) month periods.