ADA & AODA Accessible Shelters

Yes. Every shelter we ship to Ontario meets AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) integrated standards, including ≥1500 mm clear floor space for wheelchairs, transfer benches, tactile wayfinding strips, and high-contrast colour bands. We also conform to CSA B651, the BC Building Code Section 3.8, and the Quebec RBQ accessibility provisions across all provinces. Compliance is documented per province: AODA Design of Public Spaces in Ontario, RBQ Chapter VIII in Quebec, BC Accessibility Act in British Columbia, and the federal Accessible Canada Act for federally-regulated sites (airports, federal-government buildings). Every shelter ships with the CSA B651-18 design checklist cross-referenced to the as-built drawings, which most procurement teams drop directly into their accessibility-board review pack. A free accessibility audit of any existing shelter network is available on request — useful when planning capital-renewal upgrades.

Yes. We respond to MERX, BidNet, SEAO (Quebec), and BCBid opportunities and deliver complete bid packages with stamped engineering, CCDC contract forms, WCB/CSST clearances, prevailing-wage attestations, and Indigenous procurement (PSAB) documentation. Our average response time on a Canadian transit RFP is 7–10 business days. Our bid desk in Brantford turns a complete municipal-grade response in 5 to 10 working days including province-specific snow-load and footing engineering, photometric reports, CCDC-compatible pricing schedules, bonding documentation, and CSA/AODA conformance evidence. We hold active SAEA registration for Indigenous-set-aside RFPs and are pre-qualified on most major Canadian transit-authority vendor lists (TTC, STM, TransLink, OC Transpo, Calgary Transit, Edmonton Transit). For non-municipal RFPs we use the same response engine with the customer's preferred contract template (CCDC, CCA, AIA, or custom).

Yes. Our showroom in Brantford, Ontario displays full-size production units of every product line. We also maintain installed reference sites in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, and Halifax that prospective municipal clients can visit by appointment. Engineering and procurement teams can request stamped drawings and material samples shipped overnight. Our showroom in Brantford, Ontario has full-size examples of every product line — standard, solar, heated, accessible, smart, modular, and several custom-architectural pieces — set up as you'd see them on the street. We host site visits Monday–Friday 8am–5pm Eastern by appointment; group visits for transit-authority procurement teams are common and we'll co-ordinate the agenda with your team's schedule. For teams outside Ontario, we can also direct you to deployed-in-the-field reference sites in your region — most of our recent municipal installs have a public-right-of-way location available for inspection.

Call (888) 663-2244 or use our online quote form. Provide site address, quantity, preferred shelter type (standard / solar / heated / accessible / smart), and any special requirements (advertising panels, branded glass, custom dimensions). Quotes typically return within 2 business days with stamped drawings, NBCC-engineered loads for your city, and CCDC-ready contract forms. The fastest path is the online quote form on each product page — fill the quantity, configuration, and ship-to province and we typically respond within one business day with a written quote PDF. For complex projects (custom design, multi-shelter networks, RFP responses), book a scoping call with our project-engineering team via the contact page; the call surfaces the right product family, options, and budget envelope before we put pricing together. For municipal and government-procurement RFPs, send the bid documents to bids@busshelters.ca and our bid desk responds within 5 working days.