Water and Sewer Items

The scope of this Invitation to Bid (ITB) will be to establish a contract for the purchase, delivery, and other inherently related activities to provide Water & Sewer Products in compliance with the specifications and terms and conditions.  Products include various size pipe fittings, clamps, and related other items to maintain and repair more than 8,000 miles of pipe and 70 pump stations.  The Company will be required to meet certain requirements such as have an e-commerce website, be able to over products via delivery and pick up, adhere to minimum stock levels, provide a dedicated point of contact, and furnish various reports throughout the contract term.

Mallard Water Reclamation Upgrades, Phase 1 Improvements

The Phase 1 Water Reclamation Upgrade will increase the capacity of the facility to 14.9 million gallons per day (MGD) and includes a new deeper influent pump station to accept flow from a new, deeper trunk sewer, flow equalization, influent screens, aeration control and chemical feed.  The estimated construction cost for this upgrade is $65.2 million. The Phase 1 construction project will also include solids improvements that are estimated at $24 million.  Both aspects of the project will be delivered together as a single construction project.

Catering Services

The goal of this RFP is to create multiple contracts for catering services, to be used for numerous event types.  Event types are typically meetings, luncheons, new-hire orientations, City, state, or federally declared emergency events (pre-, during, and post-event), and trainings.  Each event requiring catering services will have a varying number of persons and thus an estimated headcount is not available, nor is a schedule of upcoming events.  Event details will be provided to the Company when services are needed.

Charlotte Water Ordinance Revision Services

This is a re-solicitation of a previous RFP with changes.

The City of Charlotte Ordinance Chapter 23 for Water, Sewers and Industrial Waste Discharge Restrictions requires an update to ensure it provides staff, citizens, and those alike with a valuable resource for water, sewer, and industrial waste discharge restrictions.  The Company’s tasks will include, but may not be limited to, researching updates, recommending revisions, working with key City staff to fine-tune and adopt the changes, ensuring the revisions are legally sound, and providing training to City staff.

FY21-1 Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation

This contract will be primarily used to repair sewer system defects that are allowing substantial rainwater and ground water (inflow and infiltration) to enter the sewer system.  The contract will also be used to repair significant structural defects that are causing re-occurring maintenance issues .

Sanitary Sewer Point Repair and Replacements

This contract is for the rehabilitation of manholes, repair of sewer system defects and service laterals, installation of new sewers and manholes to replace existing, installation of cured-in-place pipe lining, pipe bursting, other miscellaneous manhole rehabilitation work, and all preparatory work such as sewer cleaning and television inspection.

Consulting & Program Management Services for Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Charlotte Water (CLTWater) is seeking qualified Company or Companies in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to provide AMI Solution Consulting and Program Management services.

The Solution Consultant shall design an AMI Solution and provide reports, contracts, and other documentation to implement an AMI Solution. The Program Manager will ensure that all contractors/vendors adhere to contractual requirements and perform quality work. The Program Manager shall also validate that all AMI project objectives identified in the AMI-Assessment Report are achieved at the end of the project for CLTWater.

McAlpine Creek WWMF-Thermal Hydrolysis Preliminary Equipment

The City intends to develop a regional Class A biosolids facility at the McAlpine Creek Wastewater Management Facility (WWMF). Master planning identified thermal hydrolysis pretreatment (THP) followed by anaerobic digestion as the desired process for producing Class A biosolids. As part of implementation of THP at the McAlpine Creek WWMF, this RFP is being issued to solicit THP system proposals from qualified vendors.

Leak Detection Services

Charlotte Water is seeking a Company to provide as-needed leak detection services on residential, commercial, and City-owned property/infrastructure (collectively referred to as “Service Groups”).  The Company shall locate and verify the actual water line requiring repairs.  A Contract with one Company is sought, but Charlotte Water may recommend award to multiple Companies to meet the needs for both Services Groups.