Description
The City of Cincinnati is seeking a contractor to provide power condition analysis, inspection, and repair services to electrical substations, switchgears, and related equipment on an as-needed basis. The scope of work includes miscellaneous construction, maintenance, and repairs at various Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) treatment plants, substations, pump stations, or other properties owned or managed by the City of Cincinnati. The contractor will be responsible for providing all labor and tools necessary to perform the contracted work, except for the use of City-owned stationery installed hoisting apparatuses. The contract will be for a period of 12 months, with the option to renew for two additional 12-month periods.
Some key services that will be provided under this contract include:
• Power analysis studies such as short circuit fault current, protective device coordination, arc fault current, power quality, ground analysis, and overcurrent and protective device testing and repair
• Inspection of power systems such as conductor testing, fault location, insulation testing, infrared analysis, switch and breaker testing, including maintenance and repair of power systems and associated assemblies and instrumentation
• Maintenance, repair, and/or restoration of breakers
• Transformer support and testing services including oil sampling/testing, dissolved gas analysis, resistance tests, power factor, transformer turn ratio, insulation resistance, sweep frequency response analysis (SFRA), leakage reactance, and other tests requested and as defined by the standards
• Inspection, demolition, and installation of above ground and underground distribution equipment such as cables, conduits, poles, slabs, duct banks, conductors, insulators, switches, transformers, fencing, grounding, cabinets, structures, and other equipment
The evaluation criteria for this RFP include experience and expertise, qualifications of key personnel, cost and budget, quality assurance and control, and understanding of requirements.