South Pasadena Unified School District Opengov #2026-RFP-0300

Pasadena engineering consultant pool for six electric power delivery service groups

The City of Pasadena is building a qualified engineering-consultant pool to support its municipal electric power delivery system. - Buyer: City of Pasadena, Water & Power Department, Power Delivery Division, Pasadena, California. - Procurement: Multiple consultant contracts for six service groups, with assignments issued as task orders and no guaranteed minimum work. - Services requested: - Group 1: Receiving-station and substation design for 4.16–230 kV facilities, including electrical, protection and control, civil, structural, geotechnical, and construction-support work. - Group 2: SCADA, automation, communications, controls, operational-technology networking and cybersecurity, integration, testing, commissioning, and documentation. - Group 3: System planning, modeling, load forecasting, reliability and compliance studies, interconnection studies, and distributed-energy-resource integration. - Group 4: Civil and structural utility engineering, including assessments, retrofits, foundations, vaults, grading, drainage, and geotechnical work. - Group 5: Electric-vehicle charging facilities and supporting infrastructure. - Group 6: Renewable energy, energy storage, interconnection, microgrids, resilience, owner’s engineering, implementation, commissioning, and technical advisory services. - Illustrative work: Examples include a Southern California Edison (SCE) 220 kV circuit upgrade, fiber-optic and SCADA/OMS/DMS upgrades, mobile substations, EV charging sites and depots, municipal solar and storage, and power-system studies. These are examples, not guaranteed assignments. - Named organizations: OpenGov is identified as the procurement portal; SCE is cited in an illustrative project. No engineering-consultant vendors, product manufacturers, OEMs, products, or product part numbers are specified. - Qualifications and delivery requirements: Firms must demonstrate at least five years of relevant experience and five similar completed projects within the past five years for each proposed group. Applicable staff must include California-registered engineers. Designs require PWP review and approval, and work requires a signed task order before it begins. - Rate schedule: Fully burdened hourly rates are requested for the labor roles and evaluation-only hours listed below; the hours are not a commitment to purchase services. - Term: Five-year base term with three optional one-year extensions. Individual task orders establish assignment scope, schedule, and compensation.

Description

The City of Pasadena seeks qualified professional engineering firms to supplement Water and Power Department, Power Delivery Division resources and support the operation, maintenance, modernization, and improvement of its electric power delivery system. The City intends to establish a pool and award multiple contracts, with services assigned through individual task orders and no guaranteed minimum work. Six scope groups cover substation design; SCADA, automation, communications, and control; system planning; civil and structural engineering; EV charging infrastructure; and renewable energy, storage, interconnection, and technical advisory services. The base term is five years, with three optional one-year extensions.

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