FAQ

Its main mission is to give or sell optimized computer systems at minimal cost to private schools, public schools, libraries, non-profit day-care centers (CPE – Centres de la petite enfance) and other learning centers in Quebec.

OPEQ offers a turn-key a service to retrieve hardware that would be otherwise discarded by companies or public administration, but still adaptable to our customers’ needs and requirements.

Those components are disassembled prior to recycling metals, plastic and glass. Committed to responsible management of electronic waste, we deal exclusively with qualified recycling companies that share the same environmental concern. OPEQ is a green organization that recycles all computing equipment that cannot be redeployed. Each year, OPEQ prevents thousands of tons of health hazard, toxic waste from being dumped in the environment.

OPEQ has successfully completed the assessment process and approved by the Recycle Qualification Office (RQO) as per the Electronics Reuse and Refurbishing Program (ERRP) and is a certified member of the EPRA-Québec (Electronic Products Recycling Association).

More than 270 000 desktops and laptops have been redeployed in schools, non-profit day-care centers (CPE), other non-profit organizations and libraries in Quebec.

_{(as of April 2019)}

We deal with a diversified group of 6 workshops scattered across the province of Quebec. Each of those workshops cater to special needs like helping dropouts, fostering social insertion, teaching adults, providing work experience to trainees, hiring students and recycling. Our certified technicians recondition, clean, test and fine-tune the devices to suit our customers’ needs.

All clients entitled to the program can acquire computer equipment by filling a request form available on our web site. Requests are evaluated based on the following criteria :

1. The equipment from OPEQ must remain the property of the requesting institution.
2. The requesting institution must be a school or eligible to the OPEQ program.

Unless a particular situation arises, all private and public schools are automatically accepted.

Requests from other organizations are analyzed by the processing responsible. You will be informed by email of the decision. If accepted, the request will be attached to the confirmation and transmitted at the same time to the workshop that will process the order.

More info here.

Most of the following organizations are eligible to receive computer equipment:

• private and public schools
• libraries
• non-profit day care centers (CPE)
• home-based day-care centers (SVGMF) if their central coordinator issue the request for them
• youth centers
• senior clubs thru their regional groups

Other non-profit organizations could also be eligible.

See our For Whom? page

• Free or at low cost high-performance computer equipment matching your needs
• Computers delivered with a warranty, an operating system and refurbished keyboard & mouse.
• Efficient systems configured and tailored by our qualified technicians.
• Turnkey personalized service.
• Support to the social integration of young people by enabling them to acquire work skills in our workshops.

Please consult the Catalog section on this web site for the list of our offerings.  We invite you to review this list regularly because we continually upgrade all of our systems.

No, you have to order from the catalog.
Access to online help

Your request will be transmitted to our processing center who will then communicate with the workshop assigned to the preparation of your order.

Schools can issue as many requests as necessary; there is no maximum.

Exception: Yearly quotas may be in place for certain organizations. Needs will be evaluated according to selection criteria.
For more information, do not hesitate to contact us.

Yes, organizations can request as many times as necessary, except for the ones with yearly quotas.

Exception: Yearly quotas may be in place for certain organizations. Needs will be evaluated according to selection criteria. For more information, do not hesitate to contact us.

Schools and organizations can pick-up the merchandise themselves at our workshops.

We also offer a delivery service. Transportation costs vary according to the number of computers to deliver and distance. OPEQ can provide an approximate cost upon request, if you specify the number of computers systems and the delivery address.

Certified ISO 14001: 2004 by the Quebec Standards Bureau (BNQ), OPEQ has successfully completed the assessment process and approved by the Recycle Qualification Office (RQO) as per the Electronics Reuse and Refurbishing Program (ERRP) and is a certified member of the EPRA-Québec (Electronic Products Recycling Association).

Copy of the Audit Letter from the Recycler Qualification Office – June 6 2019