RFSO 24-16 Real Time Location Systems
Contract Dates: February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2028
Option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods through January 31, 2030
Contract Dates: February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2028
Option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods through January 31, 2030
Ainsworth - About Us
Your Trusted Partner

Ainsworth, founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1933, is a provider of high-quality technical trades services for institutional, commercial, residential, healthcare, and industrial clients across North America. Ainsworth is proud to offer the Canadian public sector a competitively solicited and awarded contract for Real Time Locations Systems, made available through Kinetic GPO.
Ainsworth maintains a strong national presence with offices strategically located across Canada, enabling them to provide timely and efficient service to Kinetic GPO members in most major cities. Their extensive network ensures that they can readily deploy skilled technicians and resources to support RTLS implementations and address any service needs.
This commitment is backed by Ainsworth's National Operations and Support Centre (NOSC), providing immediate support by phone, and their ability to dispatch a technician on-site within 4 hours in most major cities. Ainsworth's commitment to nationwide service coverage, combined with their local expertise, reinforces Ainsworth's position as a reliable partner for Kinetic GPO members across Canada.
Ainsworth maintains a strong national presence with offices strategically located across Canada, enabling them to provide timely and efficient service to Kinetic GPO members in most major cities. Their extensive network ensures that they can readily deploy skilled technicians and resources to support RTLS implementations and address any service needs.
This commitment is backed by Ainsworth's National Operations and Support Centre (NOSC), providing immediate support by phone, and their ability to dispatch a technician on-site within 4 hours in most major cities. Ainsworth's commitment to nationwide service coverage, combined with their local expertise, reinforces Ainsworth's position as a reliable partner for Kinetic GPO members across Canada.
Realtime Locating Services (RTLS)
Safety for Visitors, Patients, and Staff
Knowing where occupants are at all times in controlled facilities like hospitals, long term care, and institutional buildings with restricted access is an important part of protecting your building and those who live and work there.
Ainsworth provides advanced location and contact tracing with geo-fencing and zone-based business rules applied. To learn more about the services provided, click here. |
Services & Solutions
Ainsworth offers a comprehensive suite of healthcare technology solutions, including:
- Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS): These systems are used for a variety of safety and efficiency applications such as staff duress, patient wandering, infant protection, and asset management.
- Nurse Call Systems: Ainsworth provides UL-listed nurse call systems with features like wireless emergency calls, wander management, and fall detection. These systems are designed with open integrations and have no ongoing licensing fees.
- Electronic Security: This includes video management systems, access control, intrusion detection, and duress alarms to ensure the safety and security of patients, staff, and visitors.
- Clinical Communications: Ainsworth offers solutions for telephony, intercoms, paging, messaging, and clinical interfaces to facilitate efficient communication within healthcare facilities.
- In addition to these core offerings, Ainsworth also provides integration services, intelligent building management platforms, and other technologies that can be applied to optimize healthcare environments.
Commitment to Health, Safety and the Environment

A positive and sustainable safety culture is a core value at Ainsworth, and it encompasses all aspects of our business. We are firmly committed to the health and safety of all our employees, our sub-contractors, our customers, the public, and our planet.
Health and safety in the workplace is at the forefront of our daily agenda and an integral part of our overall vision and commitment.
For more information about quality management and continued improvement, click here.
Health and safety in the workplace is at the forefront of our daily agenda and an integral part of our overall vision and commitment.
For more information about quality management and continued improvement, click here.
How It Works:
- Become a member of Kinetic GPO
- Post a notice on your entities recognized electronic bid notification system to use the Kinetic GPO program.
- Contact the Kinetic GPO team, via the contact button on the top of this page, requesting to be introduced to the Ainsworth team for this contract.
- Confirm your RTLS needs with the RFSO contract number, 24-16.
Program Benefits:
- Access to Ainsworth offerings and services
- Already tendered on your behalf
- Fully compliant with CETA, CFTA, the Ontario Broader Public Sector (BPS) Procurement Directive, the New West Partnership Agreement (NWPTA), the Atlantic Trade and Procurement Partnership (ATPP), and other relevant trade legislation
- Preferential pricing and services
To take advantage of Member benefits, please contact:
Melissa Jackson
Business Development Manager
[email protected]
Melissa Jackson
Business Development Manager
[email protected]