Ontario Planet bids #2020

Engineering Design for Pure Water Ontario Advanced Water Purification Facility

The City of Ontario is seeking engineering design services for a purified recycled-water facility that will support groundwater recharge in the Chino Basin. - Government buyer: City of Ontario, Municipal Utilities; Purchasing Department is identified as the office. - Project: Pure Water Ontario Advanced Water Purification Facility (UT1091), using tertiary-treated recycled water from the Inland Empire Utilities Agency’s (IEUA) Regional Water Recycling Plant No. 1. - Requested services: Prepare a preliminary design report and 30% design for a facility intended to produce up to 4,500 acre-feet of purified water annually and supply four or five injection wells. - Planned treatment: Membrane filtration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet disinfection with advanced oxidation. - Design components: Recycled-water intake pipeline, injection and monitoring wells, purified-water conveyance pipeline, booster pump station, and brine disposal pipeline. - Additional scope: Project management and quality assurance, records and utility research, agency and regulatory coordination, preliminary design workshops, CEQA/NEPA compliance determination, 160 hours of technical interagency coordination, and technical support for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) Title XVI funding. - Optional services: Design and construction of a pilot or demonstration facility, related treatment and water-quality studies, and other proposed services. - OEMs and equipment: No equipment manufacturers, commercial vendors, product models, part numbers, or product quantities are identified; this is a professional-services procurement. - Notable requirements: The optional pilot work may include test wells, aquifer testing, tracer studies, modeling, and a study protocol for review by the State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Drinking Water (SWRCB DDW).

Description

The City of Ontario is requesting proposals for design services for the Pure Water Ontario Advanced Water Purification Facility (UT1091). The work includes expanding on feasibility study recommendations and producing a preliminary design report, with the full scope described in Exhibit A. Proposals must be submitted electronically through the City's PlanetBids system by November 13, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. The RFP states that award is subject to available budget and may be based on multiple criteria, with price as one element of the City's best-value determination.

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