Request for Information - Pilot Plant Treatment Equipment

This is a Request for Information for the City of Tampa's Water Department.

The City of Tampa Water Department is requesting planning-level information pertaining to water treatment pilot plant equipment availability, feature options, cost, and delivery times. Pilot plant equipment may have the following characteristics:

• Approximate 50 gpm capacity
• Provide skids for the following unit operations separately:
  • Raw water screening (surface water source)
  • Coagulation (conventional & enhanced), flocculation, and sedimentation to include polymer addition functionality
  • Coagulation (conventional & enhanced), flocculation, and ballasted sedimentation to include polymer addition functionality
  • Suspended ion exchange inclusive of a regeneration system
  • Ozonation
  • Alkalinity / pH / stability adjustment to include options for using lime, caustic, and carbon dioxide
  • Corrosion control chemical addition
  • Filtration to accommodate modular media depth, mixed bed, air scour, and automated backwash
  • Sodium hypochlorite and ammonia solution injection with contact chamber
  • A variety of membrane-based treatment options
  • Surge tank, flow meter, flow control, and pump for the purpose of adjusting hydraulic grade line between skids
  • Cart-mounted composite sample collection rig to include a 5-gallon carboy (or similar to collect composite samples) and adjustable flow rate peristaltic pump / tubing.
  • Disinfectant residual decay testing loops (pumps / surge tank for recirculating water through Owner provided distribution piping)
  • Corrosion / stability testing loops for a variety of relevant metals & alloys (iron, copper, lead, etc.)
  • Water conservation demonstration (visually demonstrate the effect of installing water conserving toilets/faucets/heads compared to conventional fixtures).
• Equipment should be constructed of materials that will not corrode, be BPA free, PFAS/PFOS/PFOA free, NSF compliant, etc.
• Hand, off, and auto control-hand control should be via panel mounted electro-mechanical devices and auto control should consist of providing a terminal junction box for terminating I/O field wiring on one side and providing terminals for connection to a process instrumentation and control system on the other side (input/output rack(s), programmable logic controllers, operator interface terminals, and SCADA system(s) to be provided by others)
• Instrumentation appropriate for each unit operation that aligns with water utility sector best practices.
• Products shall be consistent with Attachment A. Attachment A consists of Chapters 5, 6, 8, and 9 from Basis of Design Summary, I & C dated November 2023.
• Powered by 480 VAC or lower
• Bench scale coagulation, flocculation, and settling jar testing setup
• Bench scale ionic exchange column testing setup
• Bench testing equipment to measure mass, free and combined chlorine, dissolved ozone, pH, color, turbidity, particle size distributions, slurry density, etc.
• Bench testing equipment to measure moisture content in solids (oven, filtering ability, balances, etc.)
• Bench testing equipment to perform sieve analysis on filter and ion exchange media
• Furnishings for a small laboratory and sample preparation area
• Chemical storage, pumping, and dosing for sulfuric acid, ferric sulfate, polymer solutions, chloramination (sodium hypo solution + ammonia), lime, caustic, ozone with hydrogen peroxide quenching, carbon dioxide, orthophosphate, fluoride

Responses should include manufacturer cut sheets, shop drawings, itemized budget-level cost estimates (US Dollars, inclusive of design, fabrication, shipping, unloading, initial setup & startup services), sales contact information, and customer references (with customer contact information) for the above equipment. Responses may include additional information the responder deems relevant and helpful.