Advance Procurement Notice - Recapitalize Anti Armour Range (Mdb)

Please note that this project may include Indigenous businesses participation component in accordance with the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB). Please note that there is no guarantee that this contract will proceed or that security clearances will be granted within the anticipated timelines or at all as part of the sponsorship process.

Description of the Project and Services

It is anticipated that the following solicitation will proceed as noted in the table below. This is conditional on the contract receiving approval to proceed from DND.

Contract Number: HQ04022_86689 Title: Recapitalize Anti Armour Range Approximate Estimate: $109M Anticipated Posting: November 2026

Description:

The proposed recapitalization work includes:

Upgrade Firing Point 6 (FP6) to serve as a replacement for Firing Point 4 (FP4), ensuring continued Level 5/6 training capability during construction.

The FP6 recapitalization includes four new 2 km long firing lanes, crossing lanes for target access, protective berms, fire base pads, unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance, vegetation management, arc markers, buried electrical conduits for target systems, a multi-storey control tower, and a climate-controlled sentry shack.

Once FP6 is operational, FP4 will be upgraded with four recapitalized firing lanes, crossing lanes, protective berms, tank table positions, UXO clearance, vegetation management, arc markers, buried electrical conduits New approximately 455 m² climate-controlled administrative building, and refurbishment of the existing control tower.

Contract Award and Anticipated Security Requirements

To be eligible for contract award, a proponent will be required to, among other things, actively hold or obtain all required security clearance(s) prior to the date of the award, as further detailed in the solicitation documents.

The anticipated security clearance level for this contract is Designated Organization Screening (DOS).

Industrial Security Program Sponsorship

Defence Construction Canada (DCC) is providing design-builders early access to the security clearance application process through sponsorship under its Industrial Security Program (ISP).

Accordingly, design-builders that intend to submit a proposal for this project and that do not actively hold the above identified security clearance(s) should begin forthwith the security clearance application process by applying through DCC’s ISP.

Under this program, DCC may, at its entire discretion, provide preliminary assistance to all the potential proponents with their respective security clearance sponsorship process.

To begin the security clearance sponsorship process, please submit a sponsorship request application to DCC by following the steps identified on DCC’s website at: https://www.dcc-cdc.gc.ca/industry/security-requirements.

In their sponsorship request application to DCC, design-builders are asked to quote the following information, among other things:

Advance Procurement Notice (APN) number (Project number on the MERX notice); Contract number 86689 CN; and Level of clearance requested to be sponsored for.

Sponsorship Process

Upon receipt, DCC will review the sponsorship request application and will communicate directly with the design-builders to provide assistance for the completion of the sponsorship request packages. Once DCC has determined, at its entire discretion, that a design-builder:

has started the sponsorship process prior to the solicitation (Contract number listed on their request for sponsorship) being advertised on MERX, has met all the material requirements of the sponsorship request package, and has submitted a proposal or a bid

DCC will send the documents to the Public Services and Procurement Canada’s (PSPC) Contract Security Program (CSP). Following receipt of the sponsorship request package, the CSP will communicate directly with the proponent regarding any further steps or actions to be undertaken or the status of the sponsorship request package processing.

At such time, the proponent will need to promptly cooperate with CSP to ensure that the process is completed as soon as possible.

Questions

Any questions pertaining to the sponsoring process through the ISP can be addressed to: Telephone Number: (613) 998-8974; or Email address: ISP.Sponsorship@dcc-cdc.gc.ca

Any questions relating to this Advance Procurement Notice can be addressed to:

Yuriy Klitynskyy Team Lead Contract Services Defence Construction Canada 506 – 471 – 3972 Yuriy. Klitynskyy@dcc-cdc.gc.ca

Disclaimer

DCC is only providing assistance, at its entire discretion, for the above stated sponsorship process and does not provide any representations or guarantees that a sponsorship request package or a security clearance app