Water Storage Needs Assessment

Alberta’s population and economy are growing and demand for water from communities, agriculture and industry is increasing.
Alberta is working to enhance water availability and security, including but not limited to, evaluating water storage and infrastructure opportunities to increase our water security and reduce the risks posed by floods and droughts for generations to come. Alberta’s water storage and infrastructure plan must meet the needs of citizens and industries, balance cultural, social, economic, environmental and technical considerations, and provide sound investments for the province.
The water storage and infrastructure plan will build on previous studies and will be informed by:
•        Reviewing funding and delivery approaches for water infrastructure;
•        Identifying long-term water storage needs (the focus of this project);
•        Standardizing cost-benefit assessments for water, infrastructure; and.
•        Completing technical evaluations of potential water storge and related infrastructure projects

The intent of the Water Storage Needs Assessment project is to evaluate current and future water needs across the province and develop a visualization tool to understand existing and projected water need trends for a range of potential scenarios.

Proposals must be submitted electronically, via email, in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat format by the RFP Closing Date and Time to the following email address:
EPA.WatershedResilience@gov.ab.ca.

The email subject line should indicate that it is a Proposal and include the RFP number and title.

The complete Proposal should be in one (1) email, including attachments, and should not be larger than 25MB to facilitate receipt by the Province. If multiple emails are required to accommodate attachment sizes, the emails should provide clear instructions on how the Proposal is to be integrated (e.g. 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3).

The official time and date of receipt of the Proposal will be determined by the email received time as recorded by the Government of Alberta’s email server. Proponents should be aware that, prior to such electronic delivery, incoming emails are subject to consistency checks and antivirus scans, which process can take several minutes or longer to complete. The Province will not be responsible for failures (technical or otherwise) that may result in a Proposal not being received prior to the RFP Closing Date and Time. If the Proposal cannot be opened after reasonable efforts are made by the Province, the Proposal will be rejected.

The Proposal should be secured against accidental modification by the Province while being searchable and printable in its entirety.

Proposals must be received before 14:01:00 Alberta Time on the RFP Closing Date, or the Proposal will be rejected.

Proposals received after the RFP Closing Date and Time will be deleted.

Unless otherwise advised by the Contracting Manager, all questions and any form of communication between the Proponents and the Province in relation to this RFP must be submitted in writing to the Contracting Manager through this email:
EPA.WatershedResilience@gov.ab.ca.
The Proponent has the responsibility to notify the Province, in writing, of any ambiguity, divergence, error, omission, oversight, contradiction, or item subject to more than one interpretation in this RFP, as it is discovered, and to request any instruction, decision, or direction necessary to prepare the Proposal.

Questions or concerns must be communicated in writing to the Contracting Manager via the EPA.WatershedResilience@gov.ab.ca email at least three (3) Business Days prior to the RFP’s Closing Date and Time. Questions received after this time will be answered if, in the opinion of the Province, time permits.

Verbal responses to enquiries are not binding on any party.