Space Weather Socioeconomic Impact Study on Canadian Infrastructure
Solicitation number 9F045-17-0348
Publication date
Closing date and time 2017/10/10 14:00 EDT
Last amendment date
Description
A ‘’Canadian business’’ means any commercial or industrial business located and operating in Canada that is incorporated, registered or recognized as such in accordance with applicable Federal or Provincial laws, that owns assets in Canada and which carries its commercial or industrial activities in Canada. This includes industrial research institutes jointly operated by a group of such Canadian businesses. A ‘’Canadian business’’ means an entity part of the Canadian Industry.
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With this Request for Proposals (RFP), the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) plans to study aspects of Space Weather Socio-Economic impacts in Canada and to compare with best practices internationally. The detailed analyses will be used to support the development of a comprehensive Canadian Space Weather program.
The activity has the following general objectives:
- Assess and quantify the socio-economic impact of various threats from space such that CSA and its partners can identify short-term and long term priorities.
- Identify priority areas for future technology roadmaps.
- Organize workshops where stakeholders (Canadian government, industry and Academia) gather and exchange on the findings
More specifically, the study has the following objectives:
- Assess current efforts to detect, warn and mitigate space weather events on Canada’s infrastructure.
- Assess the current resilience of Canadian critical infrastructure to different levels of space weather disturbances
- Evaluate the cost of space weather as reliance on technology increases
Contract duration
Refer to the description above for full details.
Trade agreements
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Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
Contact information
Contracting organization
- Organization
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Canadian Space Agency
- Address
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6767 Route de l'AéroportSaint-Hubert, Quebec, J3Y 8Y9Canada
- Contracting authority
- Doray, Isabelle
- Phone
- 450-926-4873
- Email
- Isabelle.Doray@canada.ca
- Address
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6767, Route de l'AeroportSt-Hubert, QC, J3Y 8Y9CA
Buying organization(s)
- Organization
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Canadian Space Agency
- Address
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6767 Route de l'AéroportSaint-Hubert, Quebec, J3Y 8Y9Canada
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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9f045-17-0348_-_modification_1.pdf |
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9f045-17-0348_-_modification_1.pdf |
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ddp_9f045-17-0348.pdf | 000 |
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annexe_a_edt_9f045-17-0348.pdf |
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sow_9f045-17-0348.pdf |
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rfp_9f045-17-0348.pdf | 000 |
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