Architectural and Engineering Services - New Building - Water Treatment Plant

201701493/A – Architectural and Engineering Design and Construction Services for the Norway House Water Treatment Plant Project

NOTE TO BIDDERS: This is a re-tender of a PSAB set-aside requirement that did not receive any bids in response. As a result, this requirement is now being opened up the entire industry.

REQUIREMENT: The purpose of this project is to design and construct a new Water Treatment Plant to meet the RCMP’s program requirements. This new facility will be constructed on a site owned by the RCMP in Norway House, Manitoba.

The original water treatment plant was constructed in 1973, with systems upgraded over time. The system consists of both sand and carbon filters to remove particulate matter and a UV treatment process for elimination of bacteria and virus contamination.

A space review has been completed for this water treatment plant per the industry standards. The space analysis indicates that the new treatment plant will be approximately 60 m2 in size.

DELIVERY DATE: Tender ready documents must be complete on or before August 1^st, 2017 and post construction work to be completed by March 31^st 2019

INQUIRIES: All enquiries of a technical nature and all questions of a contractual nature, are to be submitted to the Contracting Authority: Jordan McKenna, by email at Jordan.mckenna@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

Inquiries are to be made in writing and should be received not less than ten (10) calendar days prior to the closing date to allow sufficient time to respond.

TENDER DOCUMENTS: Standard terms and conditions for this procurement are incorporated by reference into, and form part of, the tender and contract documents and are available at the following Website: https://buyandsell.gc.ca/policy-and-guidelines/standard-acquisition-clauses-and-conditions-manual Bidders that consider themselves qualified to provide this Work and intend to submit bids on this project should obtain tender documents through the Government Electronic Tendering Service (GETS) web site at https://buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders. Addenda, when issued, will be available on the GETS web site. Firms that elect to base their bids on tender documents obtained from other sources do so at their own risk.

The Crown reserves the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement. Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.

BID RECEIVING: Emailed or Facsimiled submissions will not be accepted. Sealed tenders will be received in English or French at the following address: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Bid Receiving, Procurement and contracting Services, 73 Leikin Drive, Visitor Center – Building M1 Mailstop #15, Ottawa ON K1A 0R2

CLOSING DATE: April 25^th, 2017 at 2:00 PM EDT

The RCMP has published its National Procurement Plan for 2016/17. For further information please see link: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/rcmp-national-procurement-plan

RCMP has adopted the Integrity Regime administered by PSPC. As a result, the integrity provisions are being applied in RCMP contracting activities as outlined in this solicitation