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The Government of Canada has created a COVID-19 Supply Council which will bring together a diverse group of leaders to provide the government with advice on the procurement of critical goods and services required as part of Canada’s COVID-19 response and recovery.
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The Government of Canada is enhancing the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) by launching a competitive process to add a third Canadian shipyard as a strategic partner to help ensure the timely delivery of six new program icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard.
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On July 17, 2017, Public Services and Procurement Canada announced that it would rehabilitate the Supreme Court of Canada Building and the West Memorial Building, both “Classified” federal heritage buildings.
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The Energy Services Acquisition Program has been planning for the modernization of the whole district energy system for several years through funds provided in Budget 2016. Over that period, Public Services and Procurement Canada and local and national unions have been engaged in the ongoing planning of the project and the public-private partnership procurement.
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Public Services and Procurement Canada continues to innovate and develop new flexible and accessible workplace solutions to support the Government of Canada’s high-performing, evolving workforce.
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With the design and design team for Canada’s future surface combatant determined and the contracts for this work awarded, design work will now start. The design work is projected to take three to four years to finalize, which means construction will start in the early 2020s, as projected.
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After a thorough procurement and evaluation process, the BAE’s Type 26 design has been selected as the starting point for the design of the Royal Canadian Navy’s future warships, the Canadian Surface Combatants. Irving Shipbuilding Inc., the project’s prime contractor, awarded a sub-contract to Lockheed Martin Canada for work to finalize the design.
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The Government of Canada is delivering on its commitment to renew the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) fleet and providing our uniformed men and women with the equipment they need to do their important work. The Joint Support Ship (JSS) project is part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy’s (NSS) non-combat vessels package, with an estimated project budget of $2.3 billion.
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The Esquimalt Graving Dock is the only “open access” multi-user facility on the west coast of the Americas, and is located at the south end of Vancouver Island at Esquimalt Harbour, in the Greater Victoria region. The term “open access” describes a facility that provides common services (on a fee-for-service basis) and multi-user access to dry dock infrastructure for a variety of private sector companies. It is directly accessible from the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which is the shipping channel to southern British Columbia and Puget Sound in the United States.
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In December 2016, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) completed the second phase of the waterlot remediation project. In August 2015, PSPC awarded MNQM Contracting Ltd. a $26.4-million contract to carry out the work. The successful bidder was a partnership between the Malahat Nation and Quantum Murray. The total project cost for Phase 2 was $36.2 million.
