Tender · Closed · Advance Contract Award Notice
Active Hydrogen Maser
National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
- Closed
- December 10, 2025
- December 10, 2025 at 14:00
- Published
- November 25, 2025
- amended December 10, 2025
- Type
- Goods
- Advance contract award notice
- Delivery
- Anywhere in Canada
CanadaBuys tender notices published since Aug 2022; open as of October 12, 2026. Source: Public Services and Procurement Canada, CanadaBuys open data.
What it is
- Reference
- cb-182-17006727 · solicitation 25-58211
- Commodity (UNSPSC)
- 41100000 Laboratory and scientific equipment
- Topic
- Laboratory and scientific equipment
- Delivery regions
- Anywhere in Canada
- Trade agreements
- Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement; Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement; Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement; Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA); Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA); Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA); Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA); Canada-UK Trade Continuity Agreement (Canada-UK TCA); World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO GPA); Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA); Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP); Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA)
The National Research Council Canada has a requirement for the supply of an active hydrogen maser to replace the current ones which are aging and have begun to demonstrate degraded performance which directly impacts the quality and robustness of the official timescale for Canada, and is detrimental to clock development and comparisons.
The new Maser will be used by the Frequency and Time group of the NRC Metrology Research Centre to support the generation and maintenance of Canada’s official timescale and will also be used in the development of NRC atomic clocks and their internal and external comparisons.
Excerpt of the buyer’s description, with contact details left out. The notice on CanadaBuys is the official version.
Who won it
The award notice CanadaBuys published for this solicitation.
| Awarded | Supplier | What | Buyer | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | T4Science | Active Hydrogen Maser | National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | $518,000EUR |
Who won the last ones like it
Recent CanadaBuys award notices with the same commodity code.
| Awarded | Supplier | What | Buyer | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | Agilent Technologies Canada Inc | Optical Emission Spectrometer | Department of Natural Resources (NRCan) | $145,305 |
| Sep 2026 | Sartorius Canada Inc | Advanced Research Grade Live-Cell Imaging and Analysis System | National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | $237,381 |
| Sep 2026 | Tecan SP INC | Automated solid phase extraction (SPE) system | Department of Health (HC) | $109,088 |
| Sep 2026 | West Technology Forensics Inc. | M2989-272447 - Vacuum Metal Deposition Chamber | Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) | $814,552 |
| Sep 2026 | Not named here | Canadian Space Agency (CSA) | $44,090 | |
| Sep 2026 | Doreenex Solutions Inc. | Raman Spectrometer | National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | $42,379 |
| Sep 2026 | Nüvü Caméras | Electron Multiplying Charged-Coupled Device (EMCCD) camera for Adaptive Optics (AO) | National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | $87,082 |
| Sep 2026 | VWR International Co. | Fluorescence Spectrometer with Advanced Excitation Emission Matrix Spectroscopy (EEMS) Analysis Capabilities | National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | $181,081 |
| Sep 2026 | Bruker AXS LLC | Benchtop X-ray Diffractometer | National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | $254,250 |
| Sep 2026 | Andritz Bitrode Corp. | Zero Clearance Dies | National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | $143,497USD |
| Sep 2026 | Ottawa Compressor Services Inc. | Nitrogen Gas Generator System | Department of Health (HC) | $202,202 |
| Sep 2026 | Promega Corporation | 39903-260424 Automated Nucleic Acid Extraction Instrument | Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) | $51,732 |
| Sep 2026 | testworX Inc. | 26-58113 Universal Testing Machine with non-contact Extensometer for polymer research | National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | $107,315 |
| Sep 2026 | Radiation Solutions Inc | Radiometric survey system | Department of Natural Resources (NRCan) | $151,900 |
| Sep 2026 | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Mississauga) Inc. | Maintenance and support of an HF X mass spectrometer | Department of Health (HC) | $105,748 |
Values as awarded, from $42,379 to $814,552.
Who wins most in this commodity class
Suppliers with the most award notices in the same six-digit UNSPSC class since 2022. Notices that give no value count in Awards, not in Total.
| Supplier | Awards | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Agilent Technologies Canada Inc | 27 | $8.1M1 not stated |
| Life Technologies Inc./Technologies Life Inc. | 21 | $5.9M2 not stated |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific (Mississauga) Inc. | 19 | $6.3M |
| Smiths Detection Montreal Inc | 15 | $5M3 not stated |
| Fisher Scientific | 13 | $1.5M1 not stated |
| Bruker Ltd. | 10 | $3M |
| Waters Limited/Waters Limitee | 8 | $3.6M |
| Bio-Rad Laboratories (Canada) Limted | 8 | $651K |
| Hoskin Scientific Ltd. | 7 | $1.9M |
| Mirion Technologies (Canberra CA) Ltd. | 7 | $1.6M |
CanadaBuys award notices since Aug 2022. They overlap the Treasury Board contract figures and are never added to them. Source: CanadaBuys open data, October 12, 2026.