Light Construction Equipment Rental

Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada-Peru
FTA/Canada-Colombia FTA
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Attachment: None
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Rotational Sourcing
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: Yes
Nature of Requirements: 
Light Construction Equipment Rental

E6TOR-12RM18/A
Choquette, Herb
Telephone No. - (613) 536-4874 
Fax No. - (613) 545-8067
E-mail - Herb.Choquette@pwgsc.gc.ca

Request for Supply Arrangements (SA) for Rental of light
equipment, on behalf of  Federal Government Departments located
in the Ontario Region.  This equipment shall include but not be
limited to: electric or gas powered tools, manlifts, walk behind
landscaping equipment, lawn care equipment, portable generators
and pumps.  There is no pricing requested in this document as it
will be used to pre-qualify bidders (by issuing Supply
Arrangements) for future requests for quotations.  The issuing
of supply arrangements will be an ongoing process.  The bid
closing date on the first page of the RFSA represents the date
when the latest date that a response can be submitted.  Bidders
may respond sooner and the resulting supply arrangement should
be issued within one week from when the bid is submitted and
determined to be compliant.  Only supply arrangement holders
will receive requests for quotations from Federal Government
departments or agencies using this supply arrangement.  There is
no minimum call-up value.  Individual call-ups including all
amendments and Harmonized Sales Tax, must not exceed $70,000. 
For call ups greater than $70,000 the requirement will be
advertised by PWGSC on the Government Electronic Tendering
Service currently located at www.MERX.com.  

Companies may bid to provide rental services at all or any of
the following geographic areas in Ontartio: Belleville; Borden;
Brockville; Campbellford; Coburg; Cornwall; the French River Dam
adjacent to the Dokis reserve; Gravenhurst; Hamilton; Kingston;
Kitchener; London;  Niagara Falls;  North Bay; Petawawa;
Peterborough; Sault Ste. Marie; Sudbury; Toronto (GTA); Trenton
and Windsor.

Companies may bid to provide rental services at all or any of
the following geographic areas in Nunavut:  Alert or Iqaluit.

This procurement is subject to the Nunavut Land Claims
Agreement.  Users will be required to provide a minimum of 15
days notice to beneficiary firms for NLCA whenever there is a
requirement for equipment in the NLCA area.  The  NLCA 
beneficiary firms are listed at: 
http://inuitfirm.tunngavik.com/.

The Supply Arrangement has no defined end-date and will remain
valid until such time as Canada no longer considers it to be
advantageous to use it.

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), and the Agreement
on Internal Trade (AIT).


Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.