APN- BASE PROGRAM – NORTHERN CANADA

***Amendment no 8: To modify notice description and to add new Contract MPYK0013_79906***

***Amendment no 7: To modify notice description ***

***Amendment no 6: To modify notice description***

***Amendment No5: To reintegrate projects: MPYK0012_76829, MPYK0013_ 76830, RPOP021_ 73238***

***Amendment no 4: To extend this APN from September 29,2022 - March 29,2022 and update solicitations***

***Amendment no 3: To modify title/description***

***Amendment no 2: To modify notice description and to add new Contracts***

***Amendment no 1: To extend this APN from May 24,2022 - September 29,2022***

APN- BASE PROGRAM – Northern Canada

(with Security Requirements)

Purpose of this Advance Procurement Notice

This is not a bid solicitation. This is an advance notice of the potential contracts with anticipated security requirements to provide interested consultants and contractors an opportunity to begin the sponsorship request process for potentially obtaining the required security clearance(s) that are anticipated. Note that there is no guarantee that these contracts will proceed or that any security clearance(s) will be granted under the sponsorship process in a timely fashion or otherwise.

Description of the Program and Services

Contracts may include, but are not limited to:

• Architectural and Engineering Services
• Mechanical Services;
• General Structural Works;
• Electrical Services;
• Fire Alarm, Detection, Suppression and Protection Systems
• General Contractor Services.
• High Expansion Foam System (Hi-Ex) and Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) piping to the hangar space;
• Wet sprinkler system to Office, workshop, storage, general use and other space within the facility;
• Holding tanks and associated works;
• Minor civil development;
• Structural steel upgrades;
• Minor interior finishes repairs / replacements;
• Demolishing of buildings and fuel tanks;
• Civil engineering;
• Earth work ;
• Landscape;
• Grading and backfilling;
• Minor interior finishes repairs / replacements;
• Alarm, and fuel Detection Systems;
• Fuel Storge Tank system (STS);
• Environmental: contamination abatement, and treatment;
• Programmable Logic Controllers;
• The PGS system and Fuel pumps;
• Remote PGS fuel transfer;
• General Contractor Services
• Commissioning;
• Land survey; and
• Cost estimate

It is anticipated that the following solicitations will proceed as noted in the table below. This is conditional on the contract receiving approval to proceed from DND.

Contract Number: MPYK0013_ 79906
Title/ description: 440 Sqn Roof Replacement, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Approximate Estimate: $2 750 000 $
Anticipated Posting: 2022-03-28

Contract Number: MPYK0009_76736
Title/description: Replacement of Sprinkler System, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Anticipated Posting Date: 2022-11-01
Estimate: $2,750,000.00

Contract Number: MPNWS007
Title/ description: Base Operations Long range Radar Replace POL (Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants) Storage Ranks, North Warning System
Approximate Estimate: $ 2,100,000.00
Anticipated Posting: 2023-01-03

Contract Number: MPNWS010
Title/ description: Base Operations Short Range Radar Replace POL (Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants) Storage Ranks, North Warning System
Approximate Estimate: $ 1,000,000.00
Anticipated Posting: 2023-01-03

Contract Award and Anticipated Security Requirements

In order to be eligible for contract award, a consultant or contractor will be required to, among other things, actively hold all required security clearance(s) at the time of closing, as further detailed in the solicitation tender documents.

As of the date of posting of this Advance Procurement Notice, the required security clearance(s) are anticipated to be:

• for consultants or contractors: a valid and active DESIGNATED ORGANIZATION SCREENING (DOS) granted or approved by the Contract Security Program (CSP), Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC)

Industrial Security Program (ISP) Sponsorship

Defence Construction Canada (DCC) is providing consultants or contractors early access to the security clearance application process through sponsorship under its Industrial Security Program (ISP). Accordingly, consultants or contractors that are interested in submitting or participating in a proposal/bid for these procurements that fall under this program and that do not actively hold the above identified security clearance(s) should begin the security clearance application process by applying through DCC’s ISP.

Under this program, DCC may provide preliminary assistance with the security clearance sponsorship process.

To begin the security clearance sponsorship process, please submit a sponsorship request application to DCC by following the steps identified on DCC’s website at: https://www.dcc-cdc.gc.ca/industry/security-requirements.

In their sponsorship request application to DCC, consultants or contractors are asked to quote the following information, among other things:

• Contract number as referenced in the table above; and
• Level of clearance requested to be sponsored for.

  Sponsorship Process

  Upon receipt, DCC will review the sponsorship request application and will communicate directly with the consultant or contractor to complete a sponsorship request package. Once DCC has determined that the consultant or contractor has substantially completed the sponsorship request package, DCC will forward the package to the CSP, PWGSC on behalf of the consultant or contractor based on the following timelines:

• 30 calendar days prior to planned solicitation/tender closing, for DESIGNATED ORGANIZATION SCREENING (DOS).

  Following receipt of the sponsorship request package, the CSP, PWGSC will communicate directly with the consultant or contractor regarding any further steps or actions to be undertaken or the status of the sponsorship request package processing. At such time, the consultant or contractor will need to cooperate with the CSP, PWGSC in a timely fashion to further the process.

  Questions

  Any questions pertaining to the sponsoring process through the ISP can be addressed to:

  Telephone Number: (613) 998-8974; or

  Email address: ISP.Sponsorship@dcc-cdc.gc.ca

Any questions relating to this Advance Procurement Notice can be addressed to:

Antoine am Rhyn

Program Leader, Contract Services

Defence Construction Canada

Antoine.amRhyn@dcc-cdc.gc.ca

Disclaimer

DCC does not provide any assurances or guarantees that a sponsorship request package or a security clearance application forwarded by DCC to the CSP, PWGSC on behalf of a consultant or contractor will be successful or result in the granting of the requested security clearance(s) by the CSP, PWGSC, in a timely fashion. At all times, the processing of a sponsorship request package or a security clearance application is subject to the respective terms, conditions, and timelines of DCC’s ISP sponsorship process and the CSP, PWGSC’s security clearance granting process. By applying to either of the aforementioned processes, the consultant or contractor accepts and agrees to bear any risks associated with: (i) the completeness or accuracy, or lack thereof, of its application or related documents submitted under or in connection with either said processes, and (ii) the timeliness, or lack thereof, of any processing or granting of security clearance(s) under or in connection with either said processes.