REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action to Approve Multidisciplinary Engineering Master Services Agreements for Silicon Valley Power and Authorize Additional Aggregate Maximum Compensation Not-to-Exceed $80 Million Across Four Master Agreement Groups, to be Funded from the Electric Utility Fund and the Electric Utility Capital Fund
Report
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the City of Santa Clara's municipal electric utility, requires specialized engineering consulting services to support system expansion, capital project delivery, system operations, and reliability improvements. These services include transmission and distribution engineering, substation design, power system modeling, interconnection studies, protection and control engineering, civil and structural engineering, grounding design, and construction management and inspection. To provide these services efficiently, SVP competitively procures master services agreements with pre-qualified engineering consulting firms, allowing specialized expertise to be retained on an as-needed basis.
The City Council has previously authorized master services agreements with pre-qualified engineering firms, with a combined aggregate amount of $138 million to support SVP's engineering, capital improvement, and operational needs. Throughout this report, these agreements are referred to as Group 1, Group 2, and Group 3 agreements. These agreements have provided specialized engineering support for critical projects, including the Northern Receiving Station (NRS) Upgrades and Expansion, Scott Receiving Station (SRS) Rebuild and Replacement, Kifer Receiving Station (KRS) Rebuild and Replacement, NRS-KRS 115kV Transmission Line, Battery Energy Storage System, Esperanca Substation, Laurelwood Substation, Northwest Loop Capacity Upgrade, Juliette Substation, Palm Substation, Walsh-Uranium 60kV Reconductor, and Homestead-Serra 60kV Line Enhancement.
SVP expects continued load growth in electric demand and signif...
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