News: Portrait Gallery of Canada Building Project

November 9, 2007

The Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, and the Honourable Michael M Fortier, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, today announced the Government of Canada is launching a Request for Proposals (RFP) to locate the Portrait Gallery of Canada in one of the following cities: Halifax, Québec City, Montréal, Ottawa-Gatineau (National Capital Region), Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver.

For the complete news release visit the Canadian Heritage Web site. www.pch.gc.ca/newsroom/index_e.cfm?fuseaction
=displayDocument&DocIDCd=CJV070928

For more information and downloads:

• A New Home for the Portrait Gallery of Canada (PDF 2,460 KB or HTML)
• Backgrounder (PDF 109 KB or HTML)
• The Request for Proposals (RFP) is being advertised on MERX, the government electronic tendering system, at www.merx.com. In the interest of maintaining the integrity of the competitive process, all requests for more detailed information on the RFP must be directed by email to the contact indicated on MERX.

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