RFQ for Professional Engineering Services for TMWRF Disinfection Improvements - USD 2026-04 -

The City of Reno is requesting qualifications for professional engineering services to evaluate and design improvements to sodium hypochlorite and sulfuric acid delivery, bulk storage, and dosing systems at the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility in Washoe County, Nevada, with responses due September 25, 2026 and a mandatory site visit on September 2, 2026.

The consultant must be a Nevada-licensed professional engineering firm with comprehensive experience in chemical storage and delivery technologies, chemical dosing design, wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater facility design, controls systems, and applicable local, state, and federal regulations. The scope includes evaluation of existing systems, design of improvements that may encompass replacement of failed chemical storage tanks and associated piping, chemical feed dosing pumps, secondary containment evaluation, and preparation of bid documents and bidding services. All work is located at the existing chemical storage and dosing facilities within the TMWRF at 8500 Clean Water Way, Reno, Nevada 89502.

Evaluation criteria are firm experience and past performance (30 points), qualifications and licenses of project team and key personnel (25 points), project management and construction management capabilities (20 points), and understanding of the project and proposed approach (25 points). The City reserves the right to not select a response and to withhold award for up to 90 days.

The selected consultant must obtain comprehensive general liability insurance with minimum limits of $2 million per occurrence and $4 million annual aggregate, errors and omissions liability insurance of at least $2 million per claim and $4 million annual aggregate for six years after project completion, and automobile insurance with $1 million minimum limits. Responses are limited to 30 pages (15 pages front and back) with a minimum 11-point font and must be submitted electronically through PlanetBids only. The deadline for questions is September 10, 2026, at 2:00 p.m., and all addenda will be posted by September 16, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Selection interviews are anticipated for October 8, 2026.