Water Valve Operation, Improvement, and Information Management Program

The City of Newark (“City”) currently provides drinking water services to approximately 40,000 residential and commercial customers. As part of its ongoing asset management program, the City will be accepting sealed bids for the maintenance, repair, and data collection of system valves within its water distribution system. The objectives of this program will be the extension of asset life expectancy; reduction of long term operations and maintenance costs through programmed maintenance efforts; assessment of distribution asset conditions; and the development of a geospatial information management repository for utilization by the City in evaluating asset repair/replacement decisions, and integration of the collected information into the City’s existing Geographic Information System (“GIS”). The City desires to initiate this professional services agreement for an asset management program which serves the following primary purposes: 1. Evaluate and improve the operability of system valves in the water distribution system through hands-on field activities. 2. Document and integrate the collected information on valves into the City’s GIS and provide data processing services as required to provide a fully functional system to collect, maintain and analyze water component data. 3. Generate work orders to identify those assets that require repair or replacement. This agreement is for a 3-year valve program addressing approximately one thousand (1,000) valves each year. Exact composition and amount of annual work assigned from the attached bid tabulation will be at the City’s discretion.

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Utilities, Instrumentation and Control for Utilities, Water Utilities, Water Utility Distribution Piping, Water Utility Distribution Equipment, Disinfecting of Water Utility Distribution, Water Utility Storage Tanks.