Empty Containment Cell at Lamèque Harbour, N.B.

PROCUREMENT STRATEGY FOR INDIGENOUS BUSINESS Conditional Set-Aside under the Federal Government Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB) This is an open tender. However, it will be conditionally set-aside under the Government of Canada’s Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB) if two or more bids have been received by Indigenous businesses who are certified under the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB) criteria and who may be listed in the Government of Canada’s Indigenous Business Directory (https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1100100033057/1610797769658 ). If your Indigenous business is not yet registered in the Indigenous Business Directory, please do so at the link provided above. If bids from two or more Indigenous businesses are compliant with the terms of the Request for Proposal, the contracting authority will limit the competition to those Indigenous businesses and will not consider bids from any non-Indigenous businesses that may have been submitted. If the bids from the Indigenous businesses are found to be non-compliant or non-responsive or are withdrawn, such that fewer than two compliant bids from Indigenous businesses remain, bids from all of the non-Indigenous businesses that had submitted bids will then be considered by the contracting authority. General Requirements: Empty Containment Cell, Lamèque Wharf, Gloucester County , NB. Work under this contract covers, but not be limited to, the following: All labour, all products (i.e.: materials, machinery, equipment and appliances), all construction materials and all services that may be necessary for the execution of the work in accordance with the contractual documents. The work consist of, but is not limited to, the preparation of a truck loading pad , excavate the existing dredging material in the confinement cell, haulage of the excavated material to the disposal site, restore the site and access to the site, clean the site access path and roads Contract includes mobilization and demobilization all equipment necessary to make work progress for the entire contract, including environmental controls and all associated items in strict accordance with specifications and accompanying drawings and subject to all terms and condition of this contract. The Work must be substantially completed within fifteen 15 days working days after commencement of construction. Construction is to begin no later than one (1) week after the Contract has been awarded.