CONSTRUCTION INSPECTIONS, CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, MATERIALS TESTING, AND SYSTEM START- UPS WQCF PHA

The City of Patterson is seeking individuals, teams, firms, or a combination thereof interested in providing construction inspection, contract administration and materials testing services, and system start-ups for the WQCF Phase 3A Wastewater Expansion Project. These services include, but are not limited to, inspection of all work performed by the contractor to ensure compliance with plans and specifications, daily reports including pictures to be submitted to the city. Full scope of work is described in Section 3 of this proposal with required qualifications listed below.

Purpose of the Request

The City invites proposals that include construction inspection services by an appropriately licensed team to work under the direction of City Staff. The selected proposal will:

1) exhibit experience in construction inspection services for municipal clients for wastewater projects,

2) provide a full range of construction inspection services as they relate to local, state and federal guidelines.

Project Description

The City’s existing Wastewater Quality Control Facility (WQCF) is located at the easterly end of Walnut Avenue, approximately 1.5 miles east of city limits. The WQCF has a permitted wastewater treatment capacity of 2.25 MGD, with an approximate 2.25 MGD of reliable treatment capacity, and an existing average Dry Weather Flow of approximately 1.75 MGD.

The WQCF consists of three separate processes: The North Activated Sludge Treatment System (NASTS), the Advanced Integrated Pond System (AIPS), and the South Activated Sludge Treatment System (SASTS). The treated effluent is then pumped to percolation ponds for groundwater recharging. The current capacity for the NASTS is 0.8 MGD, AIPS is 0.2 MGD and the SASTS is 1.25 MGD.

The WQCF Phase 3A expansion consists of a prefabricated packaged Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) treatment system with a minimum treatment capacity of 0.625 MGD. The MBR treatment system shall include all necessary appurtenances associated for its implementation to the City’s existing WQCF treatment system. In addition to the pre-fabricated MBR treatment system, Phase 3A expansion will include improving the screens at the influent pump station to accommodate the MBR treatment process, a potential new influent pump station to serve as redundancy and/or supplement existing IPS, conversion of Pond #1 to be an equalization pond, a new sludge dewatering area of approximately 1.25 acres, installing a second solids dewatering unit (screw press, belt press, other) and potentially utilizing battery packs as back-up power.

Contact Information

The City will make every effort to address all questions regarding this proposal. Any correspondence, as well as proposal submittals, should be directed to:

• The Construction Manager/Inspector shall have a thorough and current knowledge of building materials and state and local codes and standards.
• The Construction Manager/Inspector shall be knowledgeable in construction methods and procedures of all construction activities including earthwork, electrical, mechanical, poured in place concrete work, welding procedures, heavy civil construction, and all finishes.

• The Construction Manager/Inspector shall have the ability to read and understand plans and specifications for all disciplines being proposed in the project.

• The Construction Manager/Inspector shall be proficient in writing daily reports and have the ability to send and receive documents from common computer programs such as MS Word, MS Excel, and Adobe.

• The Construction Manager/Inspector shall have the ability to communicate with all parties, both written and orally, in a professional manner and to carry out the duties of inspection.

• The Construction Manager/Inspector shall have strong organizational, conflict resolution, problem solving, and record keeping skills.

• Municipal project experience is a plus.