Quebec SEAO #20176130

Santé Québec seeks custom mechanical safety guards for hospital technical rooms

Santé Québec is seeking interest in custom mechanical safety-guarding work at its Québec City university hospital institute. - Government buyer: Santé Québec, through the Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec-Université Laval. - Requested service: Design, fabricate, and install mechanical guards adapted to equipment in the institute’s technical rooms. - Equipment hazards include oil and heating pumps, motors, couplings, drive shafts, pulleys, and belts. - No quantities, part numbers, or specific equipment models are provided. - Key requirements: Guards must prevent access to moving parts and provide suitable strength, secure fastening, durability, and resistance to bypass, consistent with applicable Quebec occupational health and safety requirements and CSA Z432. - Existing guarding is described as non-compliant, missing, degraded, insufficient, or readily bypassed. - OEMs and vendors: No OEMs, manufacturers, or vendor companies are named. - Performance timing: Delivery is indicated during 2026; a start date, end date, duration, and option periods are not specified.

Description

The opportunity concerns designing, fabricating, and installing mechanical guards for hazardous mechanical equipment in the institution’s technical rooms. A risk analysis identified hazards involving oil and heating pumps, motors, couplings, drive shafts, pulleys, and belts; existing guards were found to be non-compliant, absent, degraded, insufficient, or easy to bypass. The guards must prevent access to moving parts and meet requirements for strength, fastening, durability, and resistance to bypass under RSST Articles 172–178. Responses are to be submitted through SEAO with a document, by October 23, 2026.

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