Agriculture and Irrigation - Request for Proposal - Generator Services

Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation, Water Infrastructure and Operations Branch (WIOB) is seeking a Mechanical Contractor to provide Mechanical Services for Emergency Generators at various water management infrastructure sites located in Southern Alberta. WIOB is responsible for operating and maintaining the water management infrastructure owned by the Government of Alberta. This infrastructure includes dams, canals, control structures and diversion headworks and includes the following systems and project areas: o Waterton-St. Mary Headworks System o Oldman River Dam Project o Carseland-Bow River Headworks System o Western Headworks System o Twin Valley Dam Government owned water management infrastructure in the South Saskatchewan River Basin is valued at approximately $5 billion. Consisting primarily of earth and concrete structures this infrastructure also includes electrical, mechanical, and geotechnical components along with electro-mechanical and geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring systems. Regular maintenance must be performed on these systems, and deficiencies with the major structures and the supporting sub-systems are identified during regular inspection by WIOB personnel. Several critical sites on the projects and systems indicated above have emergency generators installed and integrated into the electrical supply system. To ensure backup generators are properly maintained and ready to operate in emergency conditions, and that deficiencies are properly addressed WIOB must have access to the technical knowledge and competency required to properly maintain the various makes and model of generators located in the Southern Region. Currently that expertise does not exist within the organization, and it must therefore be accessed using external resources. For the purposes of this work, it is desirable to engage the services of a qualified Contractor to provide services to WIOB through the Project Manager located in Southern Alberta. A contractor will be selected through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process as detailed in this document.