| Canadian Furniture Task Group | |
| BACKGROUND | |
| Click here for history of task group and formation of GOFAC. | |
| CALENDAR | |
| The next conference call of the BIFMA Canadian Furniture Task Group will be our regular monthly call (each third Wednesday) on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 from 9:00 to 10:00 am Eastern Time. Please send specific suggestions for this meeting's agenda to Brad Miller of BIFMA (bmiller@bifma.org). | |
| NEWS | |
| 2008-04-29 Materials from GOFAC meeting: • 2007-11-20 Record of Decisions EN (meeting minutes); 2007-11-20 Record of Decisions FR • GOFAC Presentation (PowerPoint with meeting agenda) |
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| 2008-04-24 Urgent letter from the Canadian Furniture Task Group to Mme. Liliane Saint Pierre, Assistant Deputy Minister of the Acquisitions Branch, outling our concerns. (PDF file) |
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| 2008-04-23 From Jill Biesenthal <Jill.Biesenthal@pwgsc.gc.ca>, Technical Advisor, (819) 956-3340: In order to keep the office furniture industry abreast of developments occuring within Public Works and Government Services Canada, we are requesting that the following notice be posted on BIFMA's website related to Canadian Federal Government news/issues. A similar notice has been sent to all current National Master Standing Offer Holders for freestanding office desk products and components. All firms offering freestanding office desk products, both general office type and executive office type, under the upcoming National Master Standing Offer Program will be required to meet the acceptance criteria provided in the most recent version of ANSI/FBIFMA X5.5 -2008 "Desk Table Products" and CAN/CGSB 44.227 "Freestanding Office Desk Products and Components", when tested in accordance with the appropriate tests from the standards. All firms offering pedestals and freestanding storage units under the Freestanding office desk products National Master Standing Offer Program will also be required to meet the acceptance criteria provided in ANSI/BIFMA X5.9-2004 "Storage Units" and CAN/CGSB 44.227 "Freestanding Office Desk Products and Components" when tested in accordance with the appropriate tests from the standard. |
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| 2008-04-16 The next meeting of the GOFAC will be on April 29. Click here for a list of Metal Filing Cabinet contracts: NMSO Contracts Awarded |
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| 2008-02-22 We understand that Celine Bedard has taken a new position. Congratulations Celine, your help in launching the GOFAC was invaluable. We wish you the best with your new responsibilities at National Defence and look forward to working with your successor, Pierre Tremblay. |
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| 2007-12-14 Denise LeBlanc has resigned from the group and will transfer over to the construction side of PWGSC on Monday. The new manager is Raymond Pacquette. | |
| RESOURCES | |
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• PWGSC website for Government Office Furniture Advisory Committee Meeting minutes and related documents: http://www.pwgsc.gc.ca/acquisitions/text/gmbgof/gmbgof-e.html NOTE: The most recent update to the PWGSC website (as of 2008-02-19) was 2008-01-23. Included in the "Related Documents" available there are the following. * GPD - 10 Metal Filing and Storage Cabinets |
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| • Freestanding Basket of Goods: * Nov. 2007 Basket executive.doc * Nov. 2007 basket seated position.doc * Nov. 2007 basket fixed.doc |
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| This page updated 2008-04-30 | |
