Engineering Services for New Carbon Coal Substation – Design, Project Management, and Full Project Delivery

The City of Gallup is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to provide comprehensive engineering, design, coordination, and construction support services for the development of a new 115kV to 13.2kV substation in the Carbon Coal Road area. This project aims to support long-term system reliability, load growth, and regional economic development. The City seeks a highly qualified firm capable of delivering a fully constructible, coordinated, and schedule-driven project. The scope of services includes engineering design, project management, and full project delivery. The evaluation criteria include company experience, technical expertise, roles and responsibilities, professional credentials, project management capability, past performance, availability and commitment, and cost. • The project involves the design and construction of a new substation, including high-voltage equipment specification and layout, protection and control systems, SCADA integration, relay coordination and studies, grounding, lightning protection, and insulation coordination. • The City requires the selected firm to have experience in distribution, substations, transmission, and generation, as well as familiarity with power supply/system planning, low, medium, and high voltage power system design, financial/rate analysis and development, system protection, and power requirement analysis. • The firm must also have a minimum of 10 years of continuous experience in one or more of the relevant fields and working knowledge of State and Federal regulations related to integrated resource planning, power generation, and power transmission systems.