City of Tacoma REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Specification No. ES14-0302F Environmental Services Department Process Control System Upgrade The City of Tacoma is accepting SEALED PROPOSALS for the above solicitation. Submittals will be received and time stamped only at the Purchasing Division, located in the Tacoma Public Utilities Administration Building North, Main Floor, 3628 South 35th Street, Tacoma, WA 98409. Proposals will be received until 11:00 a.m., Pacific Time, Tuesday, August 26, 2014, at which time they will be recorded and forwarded to a Selection Advisory Committee for evaluation. Proposals are not typically opened and read aloud. An electronic copy of the complete solicitation documents may be viewed and obtained by accessing the City of Tacoma Purchasing website at A list of vendors registered for this solicitation is also available at the website. After 1:00 p.m. the day of bid opening, the names of vendors submitting proposals are posted to the website for public viewing. A pre-proposal meeting will be held at 9:00 AM Wednesday, July 23, 2014 in the second floor conference room of Building A (Sewer Transmission Building) at the City of Tacoma Central Wastewater Treatment Plant, 2201 E Portland Ave, Tacoma, WA 98421. Site tours of both treatment plants will follow the meeting. The meeting and site tours may last until 3:00 PM. The site tours include the Central Treatment Plant and the North End Treatment Plant located at 4002 N Waterview St, Tacoma, WA 98407. Plant staff will also be available for additional tours on the following day, Thursday July 24, from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Attendees are responsible for providing their own transportation between plants. The purpose of the pre-proposal meeting and tours are to provide a technical project overview, review the City's SBE and LEAP requirements, provide an opportunity for facility familiarization, and answer project questions. Project Scope: The Project consists of constructing control system upgrades/ replacements for the City's Central Treatment Plant (CTP) and North End Treatment Plant (NETP). A new programmable logic controller based (PLC-based) system will replace the existing Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) System Six distributed control system (DCS) including connectivity to existing integral Allen-Bradley Micrologix PLCs performing auxiliary system functions. The project will also install a new network communications backbone and appurtenances for the CTP and upgrades to the network communications system at NETP. Three Bid Alternate packages that describes value-added automation scope are also included. Estimate: $11,000,000 to $12,000,000 including bid alternates but excluding sales tax Additional information regarding the specifications may be obtained by contactingJoe Parris, senior buyer, by email to . CITY OF TACOMA Kathy Katterhagen Joe Parris Procurement and Payables Manager Senior Buyer City of Tacoma protest policy, located at specifies procedures for protests submitted prior to and after submittal deadline. Meeting sites are accessible to persons with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities can be arranged with 48 hours advance notice by calling 253-502-8468.