Site work for a civil project in Fort Worth, Texas. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

Questions Due Date: Jan 9th 2026, 2:00 PM CST All questions about the meaning or intent of the Bidding Documents are to be directed to City electrically through online Construction of the Bonds Ranch Lift Station A wet well, site layout, electrical building, backup generator, submersible pumps, motors, discharge piping & appurtenances, and approximately 225 LF of 16-inch force main. Certain improvements included in this project must be performed by a contractor or designated subcontractor who is pre-qualified by the City at the time of bid opening. City reserves the right to waive irregularities and to accept or reject any or all bids. City will award a contract to the Bidder presenting the lowest price, qualifications and competencies considered. Each Bid must be accompanied by a Bid Bond made payable to City in an amount of five (5) percent of Bidder's maximum Bid price, on the form attached or equivalent, issued by a surety meeting the requirements of Paragraph 5.01 of the General Conditions. A.Contractor will furnish all labor, materials, equipment and incidentals necessary to apply 6 protective coatings as shown on the Drawings or as specified herein, including the preparation 7 and/or repair of surfaces prior to application of coatings. 8 B.Protective coatings will be applied at the following locations and as indicated in the Drawings: 9 1. New Lift Station Wet Well - Wastewater Exposure 10 2. New Concrete Manholes - Wastewater Exposure 11 C.Contain, treat, and dispose of any dust, spray, drainage, or spillage resulting from coating 12 operations. It will be the Contractor's responsibility to determine if the materials to be disposed 13 of are classified as hazardous waste. Disposal of waste, hazardous or otherwise, will be in 14 accordance with applicable regulations. Contractor will be aware of and understand the 15 regulations concerning disposal of waste generated by coating operations. A. Furnish all labor, materials and equipment required to install, test and provide an operational, electrical system as specified and as shown on the Drawings. B. All equipment described herein shall be submitted and furnished as an integral part of equipment specified elsewhere in these Specifications. C. All electrical work provided under any Division of the Specifications shall fully comply with the requirements of Division 26. D. The work shall include furnishing, installing and testing the equipment and materials detailed in each Section of Division 26. E. The work shall include furnishing and installing the following: 1. Electrical service from the Oncor Electric. 2. Provide a complete raceway system, wire and field connections for all motors, motor controllers, control devices, control panels and electrical equipment furnished under other Divisions. Coordinate construction schedule and electrical interface with the supplier of electrical equipment specified under other Divisions as required by the Contract Documents. 3. Provide a complete raceway system, wiring and terminations for all field-mounted instruments furnished and mounted under other Divisions, including process instrumentation primary elements, transmitters, local indicators and control panels. Lightning and surge protection equipment wiring at process instrumentation transmitters. Install vendor furnished cables specified under other Divisions as required by the Contract Documents. 4. Provide a complete raceway system for the Data Cables and specialty cable systems, including those furnished under other Divisions. Install the Data Cables and other specialty cable systems, in accordance with the system manufacturers' installation instructions. Review the raceway layout, prior to installation, with the Process Control System supplier and the cable manufacturer to ensure raceway compatibility with the systems and materials being furnished. Where redundant cables are furnished, install the cables in separate raceways as required by the Contract Documents. 5. Furnish and install precast electrical and instrumentation manholes, hand holes and light pole foundations as required by the Contract Documents. Pole foundations shall be designed and installed in accordance with the structural Divisions of these Specifications. F. Provide all tools, equipment, supplies, and shall perform all labor required to install the equipment specified in the Contract Documents to install, test, and place into satisfactory operation in the time specified for completion in the Contract Documents. Failure of any of the participants in executing the requirements of this Contract to perform the work as specified shall not constitute an acceptable reason for the Owner to grant any change in the Contract Price or additions to the Contract Time. A. Furnish all labor, materials, equipment and incidentals required to install a complete Grounding and Bonding System, in strict accordance with Article 250 of the National Electrical Code (NEC), and as shown on the Drawings and specified herein. B. The system shall include ground wires, ground rods, exothermic connections, mechanical connectors, structural steel connections, all as shown on the Drawings, and as specified herein, to provide a bonding to earth ground of all metallic materials likely to become energized. A. Furnish and install electrical support hardware, as shown on the Drawings and as specified herein. B. Hardware shall include anchor systems, adhesive anchor systems, metal framing systems, and other electrical support systems, as shown on the Drawings and specified herein A. Furnish and install complete raceway systems as shown on the Drawings and as specified herein. A raceway system shall consist of materials designed expressly for containing wires and cables, including but not limited to, conduit, device bodies, conduit bodies, raceway boxes, enclosures containing electrical devices, controls and related materials. B. Raceways and conductors that are listed on the raceway and conductor schedules are generally not shown on the Drawings, except where they are required to pass through a restricted or designated space. Raceways indicated to be run "exposed" on the schedules shall be run near the ceilings or along the walls of the areas through which they pass and shall be routed to avoid conflicts with HVAC ducts, cranes and hoists, lighting fixtures, doors and hatches, etc. Raceways indicated to be run concealed shall be run in the center of concrete floor slabs, in partitions, or above hung ceilings, as required. A. Furnish and install a complete underground system of raceways, manholes and handholes as shown on the Drawings and as specified herein. B. Raceways for use in structural concrete is specified in Section 26 05 33 Raceways, Boxes and Fittings. A. Provide a Power System Study for the electrical power system, including a Short Circuit Study, Coordination Study, Arc Flash Hazard Study, and additional studies as listed below. B. The electrical power system shall include the following: 1. Utility Company's Primary Fault current, upstream protective device, and transformer(s). 2. The Owner's entire power distribution system. 3. All existing and new system components, including any on-site standby generation. 4. Include the following a. An evaluation of the electrical power systems b. The model numbers and settings of the following: 1) Protective relays or devices 2) Metering devices 3) Motor monitoring devices 4) All settings required for power distribution and motor protective relays and electric system monitoring devices. a) Power study engineer shall provide updated settings for any existing equipment affected by the new installation either upstream or downstream of the new equipment. For any existing systems being modeled as required by the scope of work, but not affected by the new system, shall be modeled with their existing settings. C. Contractor shall Obtain and provide to the power study engineer, all pertinent data necessary for the successful completion of the Power System Studies, including but not limited to the following: 1. Information on all existing or new equipment and wiring pertinent to the Study. 2. This includes as a minimum the following: a. All cable and raceway data b. Data for existing and new motors c. Data from all existing and new switchgear, motor control centers, panel boards, and separately mounted fuses, starters, and circuit breakers. d. Obtain all existing and new protective device information to include at a minimum the following: 1) All present settings. 2) Obtain any needed data or information from Contract Documents, various suppliers, the Electric Utility and from conducting his own field investigations. 3) If during field investigations conflicts between the Contract Documents and the field conditions are encountered, immediately notify the Owner/Engineer for a resolution to the conflict. e. Copies of the data obtained, shall be organized, and submitted to the Owner/Engineer at the same time of transmittal to the Study Engineer, to show that all the requested data gathering work has been completed. D. Model all electrical equipment down to and including 480-Volt utilization equipment. 1. Model all motors and constant loads individually, including disconnect switches, if present. Power Study Engineer shall model a generic non-fused disconnect switch where shown on the one-line diagram for legibility. 2. The line-side of the 208V lighting panel shall be modeled. 3. Motors and constant loads 208V and below may be combined as a lump load. E. The Power System Study shall be performed using SKM Power*Tools. 1. Failure to model the power system study in the correct software will result in automatic rejection of the shop drawing and is to be redone in the correct software at no expense or additional time to the owner. 2. For new models, the studies shall be performed using the latest version of the computer software used for the power system study. 3. For work in existing models furnished by the owner, perform the studies using the same version of the computer software used by the Owner. a. Upgrade of the existing model version shall not be permitted without consent of the Owner and Engineer. A. Furnish and install single-phase and three-phase general purpose individually mounted dry-type transformers of the two-windings type, self-cooled as specified herein, and as shown on the Drawings. B. The provisions of this Section shall apply to all dry-type distribution transformers, except as indicated otherwise. A. The Contractor shall furnish and install low voltage load bank quick connect switchboards, complete and operable, as specified herein and as shown on the Contract Drawings. B. All equipment specified in this Section of the Specifications shall be the product of one manufacturer and shall be factory constructed and assembled by that manufacturer. C. The Bid Price shall be in complete compliance with the Contact Documents. Any exception shall be included in the bid with a detailed explanation that clearly indicates the paragraph of this Specification and / or the item in the Drawings to which the exception applies. The Contractor shall explain in detail the reasons for the exception. The inclusion of an exception and its explanation as specified shall not constitute any obligation on the part of the Engineer / Owner to accept the Bid Price with the exception. D. This Specification shall have precedence over any conflict in the bidders submittals and / or descriptive information and the Contract Documents unless an exception is made at the time of bidding as specified herein, and the bid price is accepted with the bidder's exception by the Engineer / Owner. E. The Contractor shall provide all tools, equipment, supplies, and shall perform all labor required to install the equipment specified in the Contract Documents in order to install, test, and place into satisfactory operation in the time specified for completion in the Contract Documents. Failure of any of the Contractors sub-contractors or suppliers to perform the work as specified shall not constitute an acceptable reason for the Owner to grant any change in the Contract Price or additions to the Contract Time. A. Furnish all labor, materials, equipment, and install wiring devices as shown on the Drawings and as specified herein. B. Provide all interconnecting conduit and branch circuit wiring for receptacle circuits in accordance with the NEC. A. Furnish and install separately enclosed low voltage adjustable frequency drives, together with appurtenances, complete and operable, as specified herein and as shown on the Contract Drawings. The terms, VFD, ASD. AFD and Inverter are used synonymously. B. All equipment supplied under this Section of the Specifications shall be products of the same Manufacturer and shall be contained in one single submittal. Partial submittals will be returned unreviewed. Submittals shall also contain information on related equipment to be furnished under this Specification but described in the related Sections listed in the Related Work paragraph herein. Incomplete submittals not containing the required information on the related equipment will also be returned unreviewed. C. Equipment specified in the Process Equipment Division and supplied as an integral part of a process equipment manufacturer's package, but referred to this Section for component details, shall be submitted with the manufacturer's package submittal under the Process Equipment Sections. D. The minimum requirements for functionality, and control and alarm inputs and outputs, are specified herein. Additional requirements shall be as specified in the Process Equipment Division, Instrumentation Division Equipment, Mechanical Division Equipment and the Contract Drawings. E. Coordinate the VFD and the motor it drives and provide a certification that the VFD is suitable for the application. A. Furnish and install functional control panels to manually or automatically operate control systems as specified in the detailed requirements of this Section, and logic and schematics as shown on the Electrical Drawings. B. Submittals for Electrical Control Panels, not clearly specified as Control Panels by the Electrical Contractor, shall be submitted under the Section of the Specifications specified in the Process Equipment Division or Mechanical Equipment Division, and shall not be submitted under this Section. Control Panels for those Divisions shall meet the requirements of Section 26 29 86 Mechanical Equipment Manufacturer's Control Panels and shall be submitted as a part of the Mechanical Equipment manufacturer's submittals or Process Equipment Division Submittals. Control panels specified within the Instrumentation Sections of Division 40shall be submitted as a part of the Instrumentation submittals A. Furnish and install Standby Generator Sets with all appurtenances as shown on the Drawings and specified herein. Generator shall meet all relevant city of Fort Worth Fuel storage and sound ordinances as codified at time of bid. B. Each generator size as shown on the drawings is a minimum size around which the electrical conductors and circuit breakers have been sized. The Contractor shall provide each engine-generator set that meets all the performance criteria, and shall increase the size of the engine generator, if necessary, to meet the specified criteria. If the generator size increases, the Contractor shall increase the breakers, conductors, and all associated equipment, including the automatic transfer switch, to accommodate the larger generator size. All sizing of associated equipment shall be in accordance with the NEC. Submit all required changes specified above to the Engineer/Owner. No changes shall be done to any of the power system components without approval. C. The Contractor shall provide fuel for startup and testing. At the completion of startup and testing, the Contractor shall fill the respective generator tank. A. The contractor shall provide all labor, materials, equipment and incidentals as shown, specified, and required to furnish and install a lightning protection system that fully meets the UL Standards listed herein. The Contractor shall provide an inspection of each new structure, or modified existing structure, by Underwriters Laboratories and shall obtain a Master Label for each new or modified structure B. The Contractor shall employ the services of a licensed lightning protection systems engineering company to design and install the lightning protection system and prepare detailed installation drawings and material specifications. The system shall include ground wires, ground rods, exothermic connections, mechanical connectors, structural steel connections, all as shown on the Drawings, and as specified herein, to provide a bonding to earth ground of all metallic materials likely to become energized. Compliance with all provisions of Section 26 05 26 shall be included under this specification. C. The Franklin Rod system shall be used. Other systems such as the early streamer emission (ESE) are not acceptable D. The Bid Price shall be in complete compliance with the Contact Documents. Any exception shall be included in the bid with a detailed explanation that clearly indicates the paragraph of this Specification and / or the item in the Drawings to which the exception applies. The Contractor shall explain in detail the reasons for the exception. The inclusion of an exception and its explanation as specified shall not constitute any obligation on the part of the Engineer / Owner to accept the Bid Price with the exception. E. This Specification shall have precedence over any conflict in the bidder's submittals and / or descriptive information and the Contract Documents unless an exception is made at the time of bidding as specified herein, and the bid price is accepted with the bidder's exception by the Engineer / Owner. F. The Contractor shall provide all tools, equipment, supplies, and shall perform all labor required to install the equipment specified in the Contract Documents in order to install, test, and place into satisfactory operation in the time specified for completion in the Contract Documents. Failure of any of the Contractors sub-contractors or suppliers to perform the work as specified shall not constitute an acceptable reason for the Owner to grant any change in the Contract Price or additions to the Contract Time. A. This Section of the Specifications describes the requirements for low voltage AC surge protective devices (SPDs 1Kv and less), to be furnished under other Sections of the Specifications. B. All equipment described herein shall be submitted, and factory installed, as an integral part of equipment specified elsewhere in these Specifications. A. Furnish all labor, materials and equipment required to provide, install, test and make operational, a Process Instrumentation and Control System as specified herein and related specifications, and as shown on the Drawings. B. The work shall include furnishing, installing and testing the equipment and materials detailed in each Section of Division 40 Process Control System Sections. C. Throughout the Process Control System Sections of Division 40, the term Contractor shall refer to the General Contractor. D. Equipment furnished as a part of other Divisions and shown on the Instrumentation and/or Electrical Drawings shall be integrated into the overall Instrumentation System under the Process Control System Sections of this Division. Instrumentation specified in other Divisions shall meet the Specification requirements of the Process Control System Sections of this Division. E. The Contractor shall provide the services of specialized personnel that meet all of the qualifications of a Process Control Systems Integrator (PCSI) who shall perform all work necessary to select, furnish, configure, customize, debug, install, connect, calibrate, and place into operation all process control system instrumentation hardware specified within this Division, except for application software programming, which is specified for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), as described in Section 40 68 60 Application Services Provider. The PCSI shall coordinate with the Owner/ Engineer and ASP, for all scheduling, installation, and startup services. The PCSI shall have qualifications as described herein. The personnel meeting these qualifications shall be submitted as part of the project plan submittal as described below. The personnel need not be direct employees of the contractor but, they shall be employed by a firm with a direct subcontract to the contractor. F. The Contractor shall provide the services of an Application Services Provider (ASP) for all work as specified in Section 40 68 60. The ASP shall have qualifications as described herein. G. The Contractor shall coordinate, and schedule all required testing with the General Contractor, Owner, Engineer, PCSI and ASP. H. The work shall include the following: 1. Make connections, including field connections and interfacing between instrumentation, controllers, control devices, control panels and instrumentation furnished under other Divisions. The Contractor shall coordinate his construction schedule and instrumentation and control interface with the supplier of instrumentation and control equipment specified under other Divisions. A. The Contractor shall furnish the services of qualified personnel to perform the work as defined herein, in the Related Work Paragraph of this Section, and other Specification Sections as specified herein. The service personnel shall be referred to as the Application Services Programmer (ASP). B. The ASP shall contract with HSQ for all City of Fort Worth HMI and RTU programming to meet the minimum requirements as set forth herein C. It shall be the responsibility of the Contractor to obtain and provide any and all information required from other Divisions, as listed in the related work below, to complete the work under this Section. D. The Contractors ASP shall perform all the work necessary to configure, customize, debug, install, connect, and place into operation all HMI and PLC software specified within this Division and other related divisions. E. The Contractors ASP shall coordinate with the PCSI all scheduling, installation, and startup services. A. Furnish and install instrumentation mounting and support hardware, as shown on the Drawings and as specified herein. B. Hardware shall include anchor systems, adhesive anchor systems, metal framing systems, and other instrumentation installation mounting and support systems as specified herein with additional requirements as shown on the Drawings or specified within related sections. A. Furnish, install and test all flow measurement, flow control devices and appurtenances, as shown on the Drawings, specified in the Related Work Sections and Divisions, and as specified herein. B. Flow equipment, specified in other Divisions, shall be manufactured in accordance with this Section and submitted as a part of the equipment specified in other Divisions. A. Furnish, install and test all level measurement, level control devices and appurtenances, as shown on the Drawings, specified in the Related Work Sections and Divisions, and as specified herein. B. Level equipment, specified in other Divisions, shall be manufactured in accordance with this Section, and submitted as a part of the equipment specified in other Divisions. A. This Section of the Specifications describes the requirements for panel mounted equipment to be furnished under other Sections of the Specifications as listed in the Related Work paragraph of this Section. B. All equipment described herein shall be submitted and furnished as an integral part of equipment specified elsewhere in these Specifications A. Provide all testing and commissioning equipment, materials, incidentals and labor, necessary to perform and coordinate the system check-out and startup, commissioning, field testing and overall training for the Instrumentation and Controls System. B. The Contractor's Process Control Systems Integrator (PCSI) shall supervise and/or perform all the requirements of this Section. As part of these services, the PCSI shall include, for those equipment items not manufactured by him, the services of an authorized manufacturer's representative to check the equipment installation and place that portion of the equipment in operation. The manufacturer's representative shall be thoroughly knowledgeable about the installation, operation, and maintenance of the manufacturer's equipment. Intent to Bid Due Date: Jan 15th 2026, 2:00 PM CST