Subject: Info on, and RFP for, the Canada-wide DGPS Service
Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:30:13 -0700

The information below comes from an RFP for
"Marketing, Distribution and Sales of the Canada-wide DGPS Service":
http://www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca/data/itqs/130_1070-25-064.htm

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A Canadian government consortium consisting of all provinces, the
government of Nunavut, and the government of Canada has developed a
national real-time differential global positioning system (DGPS)
service, known as the Canada-wide DGPS (CDGPS) service. The CDGPS
service will provide geo-referencing in the field with an accuracy of
1-5m, 2DRMS, using single frequency GPS receivers, and sub-metre with
dual frequency GPS receivers capable of directly incorporating the
CDGPS correction feed. The corrections will be broadcast over the
Mobile Satellite Ventures’ (MSV) MSAT satellite and be available to
end-users across all of Canada at no charge. The CDGPS service will be
comparable to the existing major public differential positioning
services, WAAS and the Coast Guard, in terms of accuracy, reliability,
availability and cost, yet complementary because of specific
performance advantages. The service and its operating protocol will be
open and publicly available in order to create a rich development
environment and stimulate a wide variety of supporting tools and
applications.

As part of this effort, the consortium has seeded the development of a
custom-built radio that receives the CDGPS signal from the MSAT
satellite and physically connects to GPS receivers and or other
devices (such as Personal Digital Assistants). A private sector dealer
network is now being developed in order to distribute this CDGPS
receiver to the market.

The purpose of the Request for Proposal is to solicit proposals from
prospective Proponents who are interested in distributing this CDGPS
receiver. Distribution arrangements will be structured as formal
license agreements. Depending on the proposals received under this
RFP, one or more license agreement(s) may be negotiated with the
Proponent(s).
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I don't have any role in the CDGPS project, or this RFP process.
I just thought some of you might be interested in the information.