Opportunity brief
Closes in 2 daysWheel Force Transducers and Unmanned Ground Vehicle
The Department of National Research Council Canada has a requirement for the supply of: 2.1. Four (4) wheel force transducers (WFTs), acquisition modules, and accompanying hardware The wheel force transducers are required by the NRC to conduct terrain sensing and vehicle mobility research in Arctic environments. 2.2. One (1) Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) for Offroad Robotics Research The required UGV will function as a configurable research platform for the 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 physical artificial intelligence and field robotics applications. The end result of this procurement will be the delivery of a complete, operational, research-ready UGV platform that can be integrated into the existing technology ecosystem developed and maintained by the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) team of the NRC. This procurement has been set-aside under the federal government's 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.
- Other sectors
- Public sector
- Canada

- Buyer / issuer
- National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
- Sector
- Other sectors
- Country / region
- Ontario, Canada
- Public or private
- Public sector
- Closing date
- 09 Nov 2026, 16:00 SAST
- Closes in 2 days
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Submission method
- As per the notice on CanadaBuys
- Tender number
- 26-58196
- Status
- Closing soon
Scope summary
The Department of National Research Council Canada has a requirement for the supply of: 2.1. Four (4) wheel force transducers (WFTs), acquisition modules, and accompanying hardware The wheel force transducers are required by the NRC to conduct terrain sensing and vehicle mobility research in Arctic environments. 2.2. One (1) Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) for Offroad Robotics Research The required UGV will function as a configurable research platform for the 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 physical artificial intelligence and field robotics applications. The end result of this procurement will be the delivery of a complete, operational, research-ready UGV platform that can be integrated into the existing technology ecosystem developed and maintained by the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) team of the NRC. This procurement has been set-aside under the federal government's 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.
Category: GD
Key requirements
- Procurement method: Advance contract award notice
- Briefing session: Not captured. Check the original notice before relying on this.
- Eligibility and evaluation: set out in the tender documents. Check mandatory returnables, registrations and scoring before you commit.
Required documents
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Important dates
- Published
- 23 Oct 2026
- First seen by Atlas
- 25 Oct 2026
- Briefing session
- Not captured. Check the original notice before relying on this.
- Submission deadline
- 09 Nov 2026, 16:00 SAST
Commercial snapshot
- Estimated value
- Not stated in the notice
- Contract type
- Advance contract award notice
- Category
- GD
- Source
- CanadaBuys
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