Amendment No.3 Energy Audits – Canso Canal and Canadian Coast Guard College, Sydney N.S.

Amendment No.3: The purpose of this amendment is to include further questions and answers received in response to this Request for Proposal (RFP) along with Amendment NO.1 to the RFP document.. The Department of Fisheries & Oceans Canada (DFO) is seeking to retain a Contractor to conduct a comprehensive ASHRAE (American Society of Heating Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Engineers) Level II Energy Audit at the Canadian Coast Guard Facility at Canso Canal and the Canadian Coast Guard College in Sydney, NS. Objective: The completion of comprehensive energy audits is a first step towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring sustainable operations are implemented at the Canso Canal and Canadian Coast Guard College. Eventual results of the study will support greening government operations targets identified under the Low Carbon Government goal of the 2016-19 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS), which requires that the government reduces GHG emissions from federal buildings and fleets by 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, with an aspiration to achieve it by 2025. DFO’s Regional Office of Environmental Coordination’s (ROEC) goal is to provide Real Property Safety and Security (RPSS) - Gulf with a detailed plan of which equipment should be replaced / upgraded at each facility, including an estimate of costs to retrofit the facilities with energy efficient equipment, the estimated annual energy savings that would result and the amount of time required to recoup the retrofit costs. Security Requirements: There is no security requirement applicable to this Contract Term of Contract: The period of the Contract is from date of Contract to March 15, 2018 inclusive