GATINEAU PARK WATER QUALITY MONITORING AND QUEBEC URBAN LANDS

BACKGROUND The National Capital Commission (NCC) is a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada. Our goal is to ensure that Canada’s Capital Region is a source of national pride and significance. Since 1996, the Gatineau Park water quality monitoring program has been entirely managed by the NCC. This program includes monitoring the quality of drinking water and swimming water, various parameters at recreational lakes and watercourses in Gatineau Park, and the water in a treatment pond serving the Philippe Lake campground and beaches. PURPOSE The National Capital Commission (NCC) is seeking to establish a contract for a period of five (5) years from date of award for the services of an experienced and qualified laboratory certified by Quebec’s Ministère de l’Environnement et de Lutte contre les changements climatiques (MELCC) that can provide all the professional, technical and reporting services required to carry out the following activities:

sampling and bacteriological and physical-chemical analysis of the quality of drinking water from various sites in Gatineau Park; sampling and bacteriological analysis of the swimming water at beaches on NCC land (Gatineau Park, and Leamy Lake in Gatineau); bacteriological and physical-chemical analysis of the water at the treatment pond and outflow at Philippe Lake in Gatineau Park; analysis of various bacteriological and physical-chemical parameters of water samples from lakes in Gatineau Park as well as two lakes outside the Park; analysis of various bacteriological and physical-chemical parameters for water samples from watercourses in Gatineau Park; interpretation, and communication to Gatineau Park staff, of all analysis results obtained; on the basis of the analysis results, recommendations on the structure and operation of existing drinking water systems and the treatment pond; produce annual reports.

To be considered, your tender must be received no later than 3 p.m. Ottawa time on February 1, 2021 by email at Bids-soumissions@ncc-ccn.ca with a reference to tender file #MA022. Faxed and hard copy (submitted in person or via mail/courier) bids will not be accepted for the subject bid solicitation. Enquiries regarding this tender must be submitted in writing to the following: Senior Contract Officer, Micheline Al-Koutsi, e-mail address micheline.al-koutsi@ncc-ccn.ca as early as possible within the solicitation period. Enquiries should be received no later than January 22, 2021 at noon to allow sufficient time to provide a response. Enquiries received after that time may result in an answer not being provided. To ensure consistency and quality of the information provided to all Proponents, the Senior Contract Officer shall examine the content of the enquiry and shall decide whether or not to issue an amendment. All enquiries and other communications related to this proposal sent throughout the solicitation period are to be directed ONLY to the Senior Contract Officer named above. Non-compliance with this requirement during the solicitation period can, for that reason alone, result in disqualification of a proposal. Note that amounts quoted in this Tender are in Canadian dollars. Payment is net is 30 days. BASIS OF SELECTION The bidder must meet the mandatory requirement, pass the rated requirements and a combination of best value between technical and price. The official Government Electronic Tendering Service website is http://buyandsell.gc.ca . Please ensure that you download your document from this site, in order to obtain all information related to the tender. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have received all the posted tender information to ensure tender compliance and not be disqualified. The procurement process of this invitation to tender is subject to the Chapter 5 of Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).