a. NRS 333.700(8)(b) authorizes state departments and agencies to contract for any work of construction or major repairs of state buildings without approval from the Board of Examiners if the contracting process is controlled by the rules of competitive bidding. b. The Colorado River Commission of Nevada, pursuant to NRS 538.161, negotiates and contracts for the planning, development or ownership of any facilities for the generation or transmission of electricity for the greatest possible benefit to this State. c. This scope of work covers the ability to use a contractor for the purpose of maintaining the Colorado River Commission of Nevada’s high voltage transmission and substation public works assets. d. The services to be performed by the vendor consist of engineering, drafting, and analysis, as may be required from time to time, for (1) the routine operation and maintenance of a high voltage transmission and distribution system, or (2) the upgrade, repair or extension of a high voltage transmission and distribution system. e. Contractor should be willing and capable of providing at a minimum the following services: i. General 1. Preparation of designs and specifications for replacement, repair, modification, upgrade or extension projects; 2. Large scale multi discipline work to assist in Capital project development and execution for new facilities to the system. 3. Preparation of cost estimates for incorporation in CRCNV budgeting processes for future execution of work. 4. Drawing support to assist with field marks, new drawing creation, moving to new drawing management systems, etc. ii. Substation 1. Operations and maintenance related projects such as breaker replacements, relay replacements, SCADA I/O upgrades and replacements, etc. 2. Preparation of spill prevention and counter control plans for substation oil containing equipment; iii. Transmission 1. Operations and maintenance related projects such as OPGW fiber replacement, re-conductoring, structure analysis and replacement, etc. 2. Preparation of right-of-way encroachment analysis, including phase-to-phase clearance requirements from planned third party transmission lines. 3. Preparation of transmission structure re-location designs; iv. Distribution 1. Preparation of right-of-way encroachment analysis, including phase-to-phase clearance requirements from planned third party distribution lines. 2. New or updated distribution drop designs, structure analysis and recommendations, etc. 3. Preparation of distribution structure re-location designs; v. Networking and Automation 1. Supervisory and data acquisition control system programming a. Survalent SCADA System b. SEL Relay and SCADA Aggregation System c. Legacy ABB Relaying d. Legacy Schneider Modicon PLC System
