Tender: Supply of Wheel Force Transducers and Research Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Arctic and Off‑Road Robotics – National Research Council Canada

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The National Research Council Canada is seeking a supplier for four wheel force transducers with acquisition modules and accompanying hardware to support terrain sensing and vehicle mobility research in Arctic environments, and for one unmanned ground vehicle configured as a research-ready off-road robotics platform to support development, integration, validation and demonstration of technologies including autonomous navigation, localization and mapping, perception, sensor fusion, path planning, mobility in complex and unstructured environments, human-machine teaming, remote operations, edge computing and other field robotics applications, and to integrate into the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) team's existing technology ecosystem. This procurement is set aside under the federal Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business (PSIB); only Indigenous businesses as defined under PSIB are eligible to challenge the proposed procurement strategy to award the contract to the named Indigenous business.