Controlled Temperature & Humidity Chamber # 2 - NRC-Saguenay, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada

Trade Agreement: NAFTA/AIT/Canada-Peru FTA/Canada-Colombia FTA 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: To supply one controlled temperature/humidity test chamber. Due to many industrial needs, the NRC-Saguenay would like to acquire a 2nd controlled temperature/humidity test chamber. The chamber has to be coupled with the existing remote enclosures to help NRC technical staffs to conduct research projects on durability assessment of parts and assembly joints within the framework of industrial projects with Canadian manufacturing industry.

Here are some of the technical specifications required (for complete technical specifications and components required, refer to the Request for Proposal): - The chamber must operate at the temperatures ranging from -70°C to 185°C or better, while cycling relative humidity from 10% to 95% or better with a stabilized control of ±1°C or better and ±5% relative humidity or better. - The chamber must feed the existing remote enclosures with low and high air temperatures providing -65°C to 175°C or better, and relative humidity levels from 10 % to 80 % or better. - The chamber must allow a temperature pull-down from 80°C to -40°C and temperature heating up from -60°C to ambient condition in 15 minutes or faster. - The chamber must have a live load capacity of minimum 3000 Watts or better at -40°C.

Bidders must propose equipment which must not be a prototype or test unit but a standard proven equipment of the manufacturer and contain reliable state-of-the-art technology. In order to demonstrate that this is a standard proven equipment of the manufacturer and contain reliable state-of-the-art technology, bidders must provide with their bid, a list of two (2) valid projects.

Bidders must be able to deliver the goods within a maximum period of ten (10 weeks) after the award of Contract.

The contract includes provision of the controlled temperature/humidity test chamber (including all components necessary for its operation), technical documentation, delivery, installation and training at NRC-Saguenay, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada.

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