# Las Virgenes Municipal Water District Opengov #2026-RFP-051

Engineering feasibility and fatal-flaw study for proposed Malibu Canyon–Las Virgenes water pipeline

**Posted:** November 04, 2026
**Respond By:** December 04, 2026
**Identifier:** 2026-RFP-051
**NAICS:** 541330

Las Virgenes Municipal Water District is seeking an engineering consultant to assess a proposed treated-water pipeline and pump stations from the Malibu coast to its service area.
- **Government buyer:** Las Virgenes Municipal Water District (LVMWD), Engineering & Facilities; Calabasas, Los Angeles County, California.
- **Procurement:** Independent conceptual feasibility, engineering, and fatal-flaw study for a pipeline from the Pacific Coast Highway area through Malibu Canyon and Las Virgenes Road to Agoura Road.
- **Requested scope:** Evaluate pipeline alignments and 16–54-inch diameter options, hydraulic needs, pump-station locations and sizing, and open-cut and trenchless construction methods. Examine hard-rock and geotechnical conditions, access and constructability, utilities and required drinking-water separations, traffic and staging, property and easements, power and SCADA, environmental constraints, permitting, costs, schedule, and risks.
- **Deliverables:** Work plan, data-gap memorandum, alignment exhibits, technical evaluations, planning-level cost estimates, schedule and risk register, fatal-flaw matrix, draft and final reports, and a presentation as requested. Optional investigations may include borings, utility potholing, surveys, field studies, and additional modeling or engineering.
- **Notable requirements:** The project manager must be a California-registered Professional Engineer with at least five years of relevant experience; the team must demonstrate relevant design and construction engineering experience on a project valued at least $200,000. Professional liability insurance of at least $1 million is required. The study must objectively identify fatal flaws and unresolved risks rather than assume feasibility.
- **Named organizations:** **OceanWell** is developing the offshore submerged reverse-osmosis system discussed in an attached background report; it is not the requested study consultant. Southern California Edison (SCE) is identified for power-availability and upgrade coordination. No prospective engineering consultant is named.
- **Background context, not the subject of this solicitation:** A separate attached report discusses Water Farm No. 1, a potential 50-mgd desalinated-water project. It favors an onshore distribution concept with estimated capital cost of $469.6 million and annual expenditures of $60.2 million; offshore production and delivery costs are excluded. The broader planning, design, permitting, and construction effort could take up to 10 years.

### Description

Las Virgenes Municipal Water District seeks proposals for a technical feasibility, conceptual engineering, and fatal flaw analysis study of a proposed treated-water transmission pipeline from the Pacific Coast Highway area to the District’s service area at Agoura Road via Malibu Canyon–Las Virgenes Road. The study must objectively assess feasibility, constructability, permitting, property, schedule, operational, and cost considerations, including alignment alternatives, geotechnical conditions, utilities and required separation, traffic, pump stations, power, and environmental constraints. Deliverables include conceptual engineering and hydraulic analyses, planning-level cost and schedule estimates, a risk register, fatal flaw matrix, and draft and final reports. Proposals are due electronically through the Procurement Portal by December 4, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time.

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