Topic: WHAT'S CANADA BUYING? April 2012

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Wanted: 

• Someone to train helicopter pilots how to get out of the chopper underwater
• A teaching kitchen to train Reserve cooks in pilot training program

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Wanted:  Any comments on a report looking at what comms infrastructure is out there in Canada’s north

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Wanted: 

• Forest fire fighting services (prescribed burning) for CFB Gagetown - more in bid document extract here (PDF)

We have a winner!

A Halifax helicopter company has won a contract worth nearly $460,000 aimed at helping the military keep its firing ranges open for business.

Vision Air Services Inc. will take part in aerial prescribed burning and water bombing at CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, N.B., from now until March 2014.

“When the conditions warrant, we would either be (there) as stand-by firefighting or actually conduct some controlled burning,” Tim L’Esperance, the company’s chief pilot, said Monday.

“In theory, if we’re doing the controlled burning properly, then the water bombing is sort of a stand-by component to ensure that if the wind shifted, or something like that, we’d be there to assist with the control of the fire.”

The company, based at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, has two Bell 206 helicopters and four full-time employees ....

Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 2 Apr 12

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Wanted:  someone to evaluate CIDA’s success in Afghanistan – more details in bid document extract (25 pg PDF) here

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Wanted:

• Someone to "develop supporting Intelligence concepts and implementation plans, coordinate implementation and provide advice to staff in the planning, development and operationalization of unique Special Operations Forces (SOF) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) in support of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command Headquarters (CANSOFCOM HQ)" (MERX posting also attached if link doesn't work)  More in bid document extract (5 page PDF) here
• 8 x inflatable rubber boats for delivery within 50 km of Ottawa (more details in bid document excerpt - 19 page PDF - here)

 

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Wanted:  Someone "To provide the Department of National Defence with Advance Combat Uniform that includes one Direct Action (DA) Shirt (Crye Precision Combat Shirt Model G3 or equivalent with Field Elbow Pads), one Special Reconnaissance (SR) Shirt (Crye Precision Field Shirt Model AC or equivalent with Field Elbow Pads) and Pants (Crye Precision Combat Pant or equivalent with Combat Knee Pads) in standard and special sizes. Quantity (Delivery within 200 km from Petawawa, Ontario):  A firm quantity of 3,800 units of each item ...."
A bit more detail in bid document extract (6 page PDF) here

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Wanted:

• Insertion, extraction and tracking harnesses for military poochies - more in bid document extract (6 page PDF) here
• Someone to help market various industries (including defence) in Quebec

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Wanted:

• Someone to build a shooting range at Valcartier Garrison
• Mattresses & mattress covers for Victoria-class subs

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Wanted:  someone to convert old armoured vehicles and artillery pieces into commemorative monuments as required - more details and tech specs in bid document (63 page PDF) here

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Wanted:

• Someone to "develop supporting Intelligence concepts and implementation plans, coordinate implementation and provide advice to staff in the planning, development and operationalization of unique Special Operations Forces (SOF) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) in support of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command Headquarters (CANSOFCOM HQ)" (MERX posting also attached if link doesn't work)  More in bid document extract (5 page PDF) here

A few questions and answers in attached bid amendment