This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Tehachapi, California. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

Questions and suggestions: Must be submitted in writing no later than 4:00 p.m. Friday, August 1, 2025. Written questions or inquiries should be emailed or mailed to: Beverli A. Marshall General Manager Bear Valley Community Services District 28999 S. Lower Valley Road Tehachapi, CA 93561 Phone: (661) 821-4428 Email: bmarshall@bvcsd.org Even though they are being requested through a single RFP, the work effort shall result in threeseparate, stand-alone final studies/reports, each of which can be acted on and defended independently from the others. All proposals must present a scope of work that achieves the objectives stated above and incorporates the following elements. The three rate studies to be prepared as part of this work effort are intended to establish utility rates that achieve the following objectives: A. Ensure that the revenues generated by the District's utility rates are adequate to maintain all operations at current service levels while accounting for anticipated cost increases in the immediate or foreseeable future while addressing capital needs and system depreciation. B. Affirm the appropriateness of existing user fee classifications and/or develop new classification recommendations as necessary to achieve clarity and equity. C. Address the historically unfunded "deferred maintenance" of infrastructure by incorporating reasonable projections for long term facility replacement within the revenue requirement and rate calculations. D. Ensure that revenues are adequate to meet debt service coverage ratios for existing debt and any future debt that may be needed to finance capital improvements. E. Affirm or establish policies regarding adequate reserve amounts for operations, rate stabilization, and capital improvement debt expenses. F. Ensure that the water rates are consistent with the requirements of the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) or subsequent legislation and regulations. G. Ensure that the proposed rates comply with all applicable laws, including but not limited to, the provisions of Proposition 218.