South Coast Water District Planet bids #RFP 27-0003R

Engineering services to update South Coast Water District’s water and wastewater infrastructure master plan

South Coast Water District is seeking an engineering consultant to update its water, recycled-water, and wastewater infrastructure master plan. - Buyer: South Coast Water District, an independent public agency; Administration is identified in the notice, and Engineering is the office identified in the RFP. - Requested service: Update the District’s infrastructure master plan, including forecasts, calibrated hydraulic models, system analyses, and prioritized capital improvement recommendations. The stated budget is $800,000. - Scope and deliverables: Review data; revise population, land-use, water-demand, and wastewater-flow forecasts; assess water supply, storage, quality, distribution, wastewater collection, deficiencies, and prior projects; provide updated models and draft and final plan documents; and develop 5- and 10-year capital improvement programs with planning-level cost estimates. The final plan must be signed and stamped by a California-licensed professional civil engineer. - Field monitoring assumptions: 30 pressure data loggers for one month, 15 hydrant flow tests, 10 wastewater flowmeters for three months, and 2 rain gauges for three months. Recycled-water field monitoring is not required. - Named technology and OEM: Autodesk software is identified, including InfoWater Pro and InfoWorks ICM. EnQuesta is also named as a software platform. No software or hardware purchases are specified. - Prospective firms named in the notice (not selected providers): Aegis Project Controls; Affiliated Engineers, Inc.; Akkodis, Inc.; AKM Consulting Engineers, Inc.; Ardurra Group, Inc.; Arellano Associates; BKF Engineers; CASC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.; Civiltec Engineering, Inc.; DUDEK; Hunsaker & Associates San Diego; Interwest Consulting Group; Kearns & West, Inc.; NINYO & MOORE; PBLA Engineering, Inc.; SA Associates; and Tory R. Walker Engineering, Inc. - Planning context: The District operates potable-water, recycled-water, and wastewater systems. The attached prior-plan material describes existing or proposed infrastructure, including water distribution and storage, wastewater collection, recycled-water facilities, a groundwater recovery facility, and the proposed Doheny Ocean Desalination Project; these are planning assets, not items being purchased in this solicitation.

Description

South Coast Water District is requesting proposals from qualified professional engineering firms to update its 2017 Infrastructure Master Plan. Work includes revising water demand, wastewater flow, population, and land-use forecasts; updating and calibrating potable water, recycled water, and wastewater hydraulic models; evaluating system deficiencies; and reassessing the recommended capital improvement projects and cost estimates from the 2017 plan. The updated Master Plan will inform the District’s Capital Improvement Program and includes water supply and storage, water quality, distribution and collection system analyses, and a proposed capital improvement program. The RFP states that the District has budgeted $800,000 for the update.

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