What’s Canada Buying? February 2011

A bit of a recap from February.

• Wanted:  someone to build a big expensive (+$46 million) new hangar in Trenton.
• “Temporary Camp Set-Up and Support Services, Resolute Bay, Nunavut” (worth ~$6.5 million)
• Wanted:  someone to build a $300,000 parachute drying tower at CFB Greenwood.
• Buying translation cards troops can point at when they don’t know the language of the locals they’re dealing with.
• CF buying loads (+170,000) of anti-malaria pills.
• M&P Tactical Operational Support Services, Inc. being hired to train CF naval small arms trainers.
• Carleton University, DATREND Systems Inc. and MPB Technologies Inc to carry out taser research.
• DRDC Suffield seeks on-site medical support in case things go very wrong during research, clean-up work.
• Wanted:  some man-portable electric UAVs.
• Wanted:  flame-resistant Air Force Outerwear.