Casitas Municipal Water District (Casitas or District) is requesting Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) and Proposals from firms to provide on-call geotechnical services for fiscal year 2022-23, with optional one-year extensions for two additional years. Services expected to be provided include, but are not limited to:
a) Laboratory testing
b) Materials sampling and field testing
c) Drilling and subsurface exploration
d) Geophysical investigation
e) Pavement evaluation and design
f) Geological and geotechnical engineering
g) Materials, foundation, and geotechnical design reports
h) Slide and erosion analysis
i) Geotechnical related design and related engineering
The District intends to maintain a list of no more than three qualified prime geotechnical firms, with subconsultant support services as needed, to support the implementation of capital projects andmanagement of regulatory permits in the Casitas Water
System and Ojai Water System. Task orders will be issued to firms on a rotating basis based on the qualifications and expertise of the firm and their subconsultants. There is no designated minimum nor maximum value of services to be awarded
to any one consultant. There is no restriction on any subconsultant participating on more than one team. Services to be provided will be dependent on the capital improvement program budget on an annual basis. Casitas Water System. Casitas is a Municipal Water District established in 1952, providing potable water to western Ventura County including approximately 3,000 agricultural, commercial, and residential customer connections. The District boundaries (Figure 1) encompass the City of Ojai, Upper Ojai, the Ventura River Valley area, the City of Ventura (west of Mills Road), and the beach communities of Solimar, La Conchita, and Rincon. Casitas operates the Robles Diversion Facility, Robles Canal, Lake Casitas, Casitas Dam (owned by the US Bureau of Reclamation), Lake Casitas Recreation Area, Casitas Water Treatment Plant, as well as 14 steel tanks totaling 30 million gallons of storage, nine pump stations, 1 active groundwater well, and approximately 170 miles of pipelines. Geotechnical services may be needed to support the implementation of capital projects at any of the District's facilities, with the exception of the Casitas Dam. Ojai Water System. Casitas acquired the Ojai Water System in 2017 and completed a Condition Assessment and Master Plan in 2018. The Ojai Water System obtains its water supplies from local wells in the Ojai Valley Basin and from Casitas, and serves approximately 2,950 customer connections. The Ojai Water System includes 32 miles of pipelines, six tanks totaling 1.99 million gallons of storage, five booster pump stations, six active groundwater wells (soon to be seven), and an iron and manganese treatment facility. The District is in the process of implementing pipeline and facility replacements throughout the Ojai System, as well as wellfield rehabilitation and replacement projects. The method of contractor selection has not been determined at this time.
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