VIA Rail Canada Inc. («VIA») is a Crown Corporation established in 1978. VIA is Canada’s national intercity passenger rail service and offers three distinct types of services: intercity services in the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor, transcontinental services between Toronto and Vancouver and between Montreal and Halifax, and regional and remote services. These services span the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay.
VIA’s train services comprise up to 420 trains per week, operating over 12,500 km of rail infrastructure and providing passenger rail service to 450 Canadian communities. Approximately 2,700 employees work together to provide passenger rail transportation to almost 4 million passengers annually.
As part of our Food and Beverage objective, VIA Rail Canada Inc. (VIA) is looking for the best Canadian wines that will be served to its passengers travelling on its trains across Canada. With the objective of serving the best quality of wine produced in the region where the trains operate, VIA requires that the wines offered in all classes of service are VQA certified (with the exeption of wines sold on the Ocean train).
The wines selected will be delivered to one or the other of VIA’s Employees Service Centers (ESC) located in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver, depending of the class of service for which they will be served or sold.
A number of contracts will be issued following the assessment of Proposals received. Start of products deliveries are expected by mid-April of 2017 for some of the trains services.
