Provision of Cable Installation Services for Canada’s Diplomatic and Consular Missions

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (GAC)buyer
Jul 30, 2027 closes in 339 days
Mid-size contractorcrew scale · GROUND's inference
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General building posted Jul 24, 2026
Scope

What the buyer describes

The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) is responsible for the planning, delivery, operation, and maintenance of Canada's diplomatic missions abroad and provides comprehensive project management services for new construction, leases, and the development or renovation of existing properties. As part of this mandate, DFATD requires cabling services at Canadian missions abroad, including the supply and installation of low-voltage cabling and associated equipment. The procurement process will be conducted in two phases, with this Notice of Proposed Procurement (NPP) constituting the first phase. During the second phase, interested suppliers may request the Invitation to Qualify (ITQ) document from the Contracting Advisor, as the ITQ will not be posted on CanadaBuys or otherwise made publicly available. To obtain the ITQ document, interested suppliers must submit a request to the Contracting Advisor, Brent Hygaard, at realproperty-contracts@international.gc.ca, with solicitation number 24-259558 in the subject line. Firms already on the source list do not need to requalify and will remain on the source list for its duration.

GROUND estimate · inference, not a quote

Most likely final-price range

$544,888 – $1,407,291 middle half of 21 recent mid-size contractor general building jobs — nothing closer on file yet
$855,500median of those jobs

Built from same-trade, same-crew-scale historical jobs: "awarded" rows are executed contract values, "low bid" rows are unofficial bid-opening totals. Similar scope is not identical scope — treat this as the bracket to sanity-check your own takeoff against, never as the estimate itself. Trade-wide, general building low bids run $819,581 median across 787 openings — full history on the board.

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