Excavation of Archeological Resources in the Priority Active Area - Natashquan

1. ADVANCED CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE (ACAN) An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier. 2. DEFINITION OF THE REQUIREMENT 2.1. Objective The objective is to carry out an excavation of the archaeological resources of the identified area, in accordance with the recommendations resulting from the archaeological potential study and the archaeological inventory carried out for the project to build a new fishing port in Natashquan by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). The intervention must make it possible to document, excavate, record and adequately recover the archaeological data present in the area in question in order to free up the right-of-way for the development of the new port facilities. The search must be completed no later than September 15, 2026. 2.2 Background The archaeological inventory carried out in June 2026 as part of the project for a new fishing port in Natashquan confirmed that the right-of-way…