Surface water drainage work around Building # 18 - Frelighsburg Experimental Farm.

Invitation to tender 01B46-20-045

Surface water drainage work around Building # 18 - Frelighsburg Experimental Farm.

Sealed tenders for the project indicated above, addressed to the attention of the Contract Officer, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, will be accepted at the following address, up to the tender closing date and time indicated below:

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Corporate Management Branch
Assets Management, Eastern Service Centre

TENDER RECEIVING UNIT
2001 Robert-Bourassa, suite 671-TEN
Montreal, QC, H3A 3N2
Scope of Work:

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Frelighsburg Experimental Farm plans to redo the drainage around building # 18 for the evacuation of the surface water. The works consist, but are not limited to:

• The construction survey
• Signalisation and traffic management
• Demolition of existing structures such as paving, existing storm sewers and aqueduct pipes, etc.
• Relocation of the water pumping station and reservoir
• The excavation and connection of a water main
• The excavation and installation of storm water pipes including the required catch basins
• Construction of a drainage trench
• The excavation, leveling and compaction of the stone foundation for light paving
• Installation and compaction of paving
• Pavement sawing
• Sodding
• Protection of existing services; aqueduct, gas and others
• Environmental measures and management of cut / fill

Site Visit:

It is recommended that firms intending to submit a proposal for this project visit the work site. A site visit will be held on September 11, 2020 at 10:30 AM local time at the Frelighsburg Experimental Farm, 57 chemin St-Armand, Frelighsburg (Québec) J0J 1C0. Participants to the visit will be requested to sign an attendance form. Participants shall present themselves ten minutes before the visit scheduled start time.

Before presenting themselves, interested bidders must confirm their presence by email to:

carol.rahal@canada.ca

Interested bidders to attend the site visit will need to confirm their presence by sending an email to carol.rahal@canada.ca.

Confirmation by email is mandatory before attending the site visit. During the site visit, wearing a mask is mandatory.

Attendance to this visit is NOT MANDATORY but Firms that do not attend will not be given an alternative appointment, although they will not be precluded from submitting an offer. Any clarifications or changes to the bid solicitation resulting from the site visit will be included as an amendment to the bid solicitation and will be posted on BuyandSell.gc.ca

Tender Period Closing Date and Time: September 25, 2020, at 02:00 pm (Local time).

Information requests and inquiries related to this tender process are to be directed, in writing, ONLY to the AAFC Contract Officer identified below. Bidders who contact anyone other than the AAFC Contract Officer to obtain such information during the solicitation period may, for that reason alone, be disqualified.

It is MANDATORY for the Firms intending to submit tenders on this project to obtain the related specifications, plans and drawings, and all other tender documents through the BuyandSell service provider’s platform. Addenda, when issued, will be available from the BuyandSell service provider platform.

AAFC reserves the right to accept any Proposal in whole or in part, without prior negotiation and reject any or all Proposals

received.

AAFC Contract Officer:

Carol Rahal

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
Corporate Management Branch
Assets Management, Eastern Service Centre

2001, Robert-Bourassa Street, suite 671-TEN
Montreal, QC, H3A 3N2
Email: carol.rahal@canada.ca