Emerald Lake and Natural Bridge Day Use Area Rehabilitation – Yoho National Park

Requirement: Parks Canada requires repairs to the Emerald Lake and Natural Bridge day use areas. The repairs at Emerald Lake include: repaving walkway to the day use area, rehabilitating privies, rehabilitating the lake shore at the day use areas, providing defined stairs to the lake shore, increasing picnic capacity including wheelchair accessible seating and consolidating the information kiosks to one central location. The repairs at Natural Bridge include: improving traffic flow for safety and optimizing the available parking, increasing height of safety railings, consolidating information kiosks and rehabilitating the privies.  To assist with bonding and insurance requirements, this project is estimated at a value between $500,001 > $1,000,000 Taxes extra. Project Timeline: The Contractor must perform and complete the Work by March 31, 2019. Optional Site Visit There will be a site visit on September 4, 2018 at 10:00AM MDT at Emerald Lake. Interested bidders are to meet at the Natural Bridge Day Use Area. Bidders are requested to communicate with the Contracting Authority before the optional site visit to confirm attendance and provide the name(s) of the person(s) who will attend. Bidders may be requested to sign an attendance sheet. Bidders who do not attend or do not send a representative will not be given an alternative appointment but they will not be precluded from submitting a bid. Any clarifications or changes to the bid solicitation resulting from the site visit will be included as an amendment to the bid solicitation. Bid Submission: Parks Canada relocated its office on July 30, 2018. It is the Bidder's responsibility to ensure that its bid is delivered on time to the appropriate address as identified below. Parks Canada Agency Bid Receiving Unit National Contracting Services 220 - 4 Avenue S.E., suite 720 Calgary, AB  T2G 4X3 Information: National Parks Regulations require that all work is to be performed in accordance with the ordinances, laws, rules and regulations set out in the National Park Act. Bidders that consider themselves qualified to provide this Work and intend to submit bids on this project should obtain documents from the Government Electronic Tendering Service through the Government of Canada tendering service at www.buyandsell.gc.ca/tenders . Addenda, when issued, will be available from the Government of Canada tendering service. Bidders that elect to base their bids on documents obtained from other sources do so at their own risk. Late submissions will not be considered. This PCA office provides procurement services to the public in English.The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.