Item 22 - Agreements for On-Call Programmable Logic Controller Programming and Consulting Services

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1. GENERAL, The City of Santa Ana ("Santa Ana" or "City") is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California, with over 310,000 residents. It is the 62nd most -populous city in the United States. Santa Ana is located in Southern California, adjacent to the Santa Ana River, about 10 miles away from the California coast. Founded in 1869, the City is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, the second largest metropolitan area in the United States with almost 18 million residents in 2010. The City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency — Water Resources Division oversees and maintains the daily operations of the Water System and Sanitary Sewer System. The City of Santa Ana's water system has an average day demand of about 43 million gallons (MG) with 45,000 services. It is comprised of approximately 478 miles of water main, 45 MG of storage at five (5) sites, seven (7) MWD connections, 21 groundwater wells, seven (7) pump stations, four (4) pressure regulating stations and utilizes two (2) pressure zones. A. NATURE OF WORK: The City of Santa Ana is seeking qualified firms to provide human machine interface (HMI) and programmable logic controller (PLC) programming and consulting services for the City's Water Resources Division. A detailed Scope of Work is included in ATTACHMENT 1: SCOPE OF WORK in the Appendix of this RFP. B. SUBMITTAL OF PROPOSAL: Responses to this Request for Proposals (RFP) must be submitted electronically to the PlanetBids system. It is the responsibility of the proposer to ensure that any proposals submitted have been uploaded to PlanetBids prior to this proposal due date and time. The Fee Proposal shall be submitted separately and electronically to the PlanetBids system prior to this proposal due date and time. C. PROPOSAL EVALUATION AND RATING: The criteria for evaluating the proposals submitted will take the following items into consideration: • Firm/Team Experience 30% • Relevant Project Experience 25% • Understanding of Need 20% • Fee 15% • References 10% The City has established a proposal review committee to evaluate proposers based on the response to the RFP, which includes adherence to outlined directions and format, and the City evaluation criteria set forth above. A final score will be calculated for each submitted proposal and used to rank the proposers. City of Santa Ana RFP 25-046 Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Programming and Consulting Services Page 5