Modified Marine Rader (Bird Tracking)

Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with
Peru/Colombia/Panama
Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Attachment: None
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 
Modified Marine Radar Detection System
K2A50-130002/A
Podlesny, Sebastian

Environment Canada has a requirement to purchase one (1)
modified Marine Radar Bird Detection systems (MRBDS) for
detecting birds and other biological targets. This radar will be
used for research and monitoring programs related to bird
migration, for calibration of weather radars for detecting
birds, and also to evaluate various protocols for monitoring.
The marine radar unit is also required to assist in the
development of Environmental Prediction Capacity for mapping
bird movements in space and time (in conjunction with
large-scale weather radars), and to monitor movements of birds
in relation to wind turbines and other hazards to birds such as
towers and lit buildings.

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).

Basis of Selection

A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation
and meet all mandatory technical
evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. The responsive
bid with the lowest evaluated price will be 
recommended for award of a contract.

Mandatory Technical Criteria

Bidders must provide a statement confirming their compliance
with each of the mandatory criteria (M1 through M6). Bidders
should include a description of how their system meets each of
the criteria. Bids that do not include a statement of compliance
for each mandatory criterion will be deemed non-responsive.

M1. The Antenna must have a horn-fed parabolic dish 60-70cm wide
producing a beam with half-power width in the range 2.5-3.5
degrees, with a gain of at least 30db.  The dish must be
operable in winds up to 80km/h (and survive winds up to 120km/h
without damage), in any precipitation, and a temperature range
of -30 to +40 degrees as outlined in Section 4.1 of the
Statement of Requirement (SOR).

M2. The antenna must be remotely tiltable during operations,
using software control, so that it can be adjusted to scan at
different angles as outlined in Section 4.2 of the SOR.

M3.  The transceiver must be housed and weatherproofed so that
it can operate outdoors in all types of weather (i.e., any
precipitation, winds of up to 80km/h, and over a temperature
range of -30 to +40 degrees Celsius) as outlined in section
4.3.3 of the SOR.

M4.  The transceiver must operate on a single 12 VDC power
supply and draw no more than 10 amps, and for a total power
dissipation is 120 watts or less, in order to allow for
operation in remote locations (i.e. here power is generated
on-site from, for example, solar panels, a small wind turbine,
or a small gasoline generator) as outlined in section 4.3.4 of
the SOR.

M5.  The raw output from the radar must be fully accessible and
able to be processed by the Open Source software package RadR
(https://radr-project.org/) as described in section 4.4.3 of the
SOR.

M6. The licensing of the tilter software interface (not
including the operating system) must permit full and
unrestricted use of the tilter radar system by 3rd party
applications (including RadR), without fee and in perpetuity. 
The license must also allow for unlimited redistribution of
those library and executable binary files and header text files
necessary to build and run 3rd party applications  (including
RadR), that make full use of the tilter radar system as outlined
in section 4.4.3.7 of the SOR.
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.