WHAT'S CANADA BUYING? January 2012

[The Bread Guy]

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[The Bread Guy]

Wanted:

• Hull cleaning for Esquimault-based subs
• Robot arms for Defence Research and Development Valcartier

 

[The Bread Guy]

Wanted:

• Someone to carry out International Trauma Life Support Training to 1 Health Services Group units in western Canada - more in Statement of Work here (PDF)
• Forest fire fighting services (prescribed burning) for CFB Gagetown - more in bid document extract here (PDF)

 

[The Bread Guy]

Wanted:

• Up to 2,560 metal jump wings
• Software to ensure and enhance the CF’s readiness do carry out the “Canada First” strategy
• Research into improving GPS systems mounted on missiles/shells
• Research into multiple systems integrating to make sense of a situation

 

[The Bread Guy]

Wanted: 

• “Electronic medical evidence based point-of-care information tool” for the CF Health Services Group
• New temp office complex for Wainwright

 

[The Bread Guy]

Wanted:  "a qualified supplier to provide High Risk Search (HRS) Training (for counter-IED unit) .... (to) be provided (at) CFB Gagetown" - more details from Statement of Work here (8 page PDF):

.... It has been directed by the Chief of Land Staff and Director Engineers (DEngr) that with the establishment of a Counter Improvised Explosive Device (CIED) Squadron (Sqn) there is a need for the development of a High Risk Search (HRS) capability within 43 CIED Sqn. Currently the Canadian Forces has limited expertise regarding HRS. Although the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineers (CFSME) is the Centre of Excellence (COE) for Search, there currently exists no training plan or qualification standard for HRS, Working in Confined Spaces (WICS) and Working at Heights (WAH) ....

 

[The Bread Guy]

Wanted:

• Business cards and "how to deal with media" aide memoire cards
• 20,000 orange stress balls

 

[The Bread Guy]

Wanted:  20,000 orange stress balls

Not anymore, apparently....

These are stressful times at National Defence.

Belt-tightening. Uncertainty. Maybe even pink slips.

Throw in a Cold War-style spy saga, and it's enough to push even the most unflappable worker to the breaking point.

So what does top brass do to keep its staff sane?

Order 20,000 stress balls. Orange ones.

Serenity was on the way — until Defence Minister Peter MacKay got wind of the order.

"As soon as Minister MacKay was made aware of this contract, he instructed officials to immediately cancel this unnecessary expense of taxpayer money," the minister's spokesman, Jay Paxton, said in an email.

The department said it needed the squeezable rubber stress-relievers on the double. The deadline for the order was to be the end of March — just in time for the start of the new fiscal year ....

CBC.ca, 20 Jan 12

Let's save the MERX posting in case the link stops working shortly, shall we? 

 

[The Bread Guy]

Wanted:  ".... qualified instructor(s) to deliver Combat System Courses, derived from Chukido Kwan Combat Systems (Combat Hapkido and Chinese Kempo), to military personnel (students), for the Department of National Defence (DND), Post Recruit Education and Training Center (PRETC), at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden, in Borden, Ontario Canada, on an "as and when requested" basis ...."

More in bid package extract (4 page PDF) here.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Wanted: 

• “Integrated Position Keeping Systems (IPKS) in ten (10) of the KINGSTON Class ships”
• UAV chopper trailers for DRDC Suffield