Placing, Lifting/Removal, Maintaining and the Servicing of Buoys on the Southern Lakes - Yukon Territory

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) maintains a Seasonal Aids to Navigation System, consisting of thirty-eight (38) unlighted buoys and five (5) unlighted beacons, on the Southern Lakes in Yukon Territory and British Columbia as at contract award. The buoys are deployed in May right after the ice recedes and are checked for correct position once a month until they are recovered and stored in October, shortly before freeze up at the end of the navigational season. The beacons are left in place all year and are checked for correct operation once a month during the navigation season. In addition to these planned monthly checks; repairs and repositioning are done as required. Store all components and tools.