ARCGIS ESRI UTILITY NETWORK MIGRATION

Location:	Texas
Posted:	Dec 16, 2025
Due:	Jan 14, 2026
Agency:	Brownsville Public Utilities Board
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	70 - General Purpose Information Technology Equipment (including software). D - Automatic Data Processing and Telecommunication Services
Solicitation No:	P013-26
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LEGAL NOTICE

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

P013-26

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board will accept electronic and/or sealed proposals for ArcGIS

ESRI Utility Network Migration, until 5:00 PM, January 14, 2026, in the Brownsville PUB

Purchasing Department, located at 1155 FM 511, Olmito, Texas 78575. Proposals received after

this time will not be considered.

Proposals will be publicly opened and read aloud on January 15, 2026 at 10:30 AM. Firms can call

in at 10:30 AM, January 15, 2026 to (956) 214-6020 to listen to the proposal opening.

Brownsville Public Utilities Board utilizes the Texas Purchasing Group to post Request for

Proposal (RFP) and bid opportunities. Registration is available at registering on Bidnet Direct's

Texas Purchasing Group, if you haven’t already registered.

Detailed specifications may be obtained at the following website: https://www.brownsville-

pub.com/rfp_status/open/

Please mark on the outside of the envelope and on any carrier’s envelope: “P013-26 SEALED

PROPOSALS FOR ARCGIS ESRI UTILITY NETWORK MIGRATION, JANUARY 14,

2026, 5:00 PM”, and send to the attention of Diane Solitaire, Purchasing Department, 1155 FM

511, Olmito, Texas 78575.

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board will not be responsible in the event that the U.S. Postal

Service or any other courier system fails to deliver the sealed proposals to the Brownsville Public

Utilities Board, Purchasing Office by the given deadline above. Proposals will be accepted via

electronic transmission through Bidnet, only.

The Brownsville PUB reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive irregularities

contained therein and to accept any proposal deemed most advantageous to the Brownsville PUB.

Any Proposal may be withdrawn prior to the above-scheduled time for the opening of Proposals

or authorized postponement thereof. All timely proposals become the property of the BPUB upon

receipt and shall not be returned. Any information deemed to be confidential by respondent should

be clearly noted on the page(s) where the confidential information is contained. BPUB, however,

cannot guarantee that it will not be compelled to disclose all or part of any public record under the

Texas Public Information Act, since information deemed to be confidential by the respondent may

not be considered confidential under Texas law, or pursuant to a Court Order.

BY: Diane Solitaire

Purchasing and Materials Manager

Phone: (956) 983-6366

INSTRUCTIONS TO PROPOSERS

Please submit this page upon receipt.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FORM

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For any clarifications, please contact Diane Solitaire at BPUB Purchasing Department at (956)

983-6366 or e-mail: dsolitaire@brownsville-pub.com.

Please e-mail this page upon receipt of the RFP package or legal notice. If you only received the

legal notice and you want the RFP package mailed, please provide a method of shipment with

account number in the space designated below.

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If you are unable to send your proposal, kindly indicate your reason for “No bid” above and return

this form via email to: dsolitaire@brownsville-pub.com. This will ensure you remain active on

our vendor list.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

ArcGIS ESRI Utility Network Migration

GENERAL BACKGROUND

The BPUB System and Organization

BPUB is an agency formed by the City of Brownsville, Texas, under Article VI of its

Home Rule Charter. The Board is organized for the purpose of aiding and acting on behalf

of the City to manage and control the City’s municipally owned electric, water and

wastewater systems.

BPUB is governed by the Board of Directors (“Board”), which has control and

management supervision of all affairs of the utility as detailed below. The Board holds a

regular meeting once a month and occasionally holds special meetings and workshops.

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) is a component unit of the City of

Brownsville, Texas and is 92.91% participant of the Southmost Regional Water Authority

(SRWA). The BPUB was formed in 1960 to provide electrical, water, and wastewater

services to its customers in the Brownsville area, and the Authority provides treated water

to various areas of the lower Cameron County. Pursuant to the City’s Charter,

management, operation, and control of the City’s combined water, wastewater, and

electric utilities system is delegated to the BPUB, and the Authority has a mutual

agreement with the BPUB authorizing the BPUB to manage all accounting and reporting

functions. The Authority is comprised of all of the territory contained within the City of

Brownsville, the City of Los Fresnos, the Town of Indian Lake, Brownsville Navigation

District of Cameron County, and Valley Municipal Utility District No. 2 of Cameron

County.

The BPUB governance is comprised of seven-member Board of Directors, six of whom

are appointed by the City Commission to a four-year term, and the seventh member

reserved for the City’s Mayor, serving ex-officio. The Board appoints a General Manager

and Chief Executive Officer who is responsible for the management of all BPUB

employees and for administering all affairs of the BPUB.

BPUB executive administration includes a general manager/chief executive officer, an

assistant general manager/chief operations officer, a chief administrative officer, a chief

legal officer, and a chief financial officer that oversee specific divisions. BPUB employs

approximately 607 employees. BPUB's fiscal year is a 12-month period ending

September 30th of each year.

The Electric System provides retail electric service through its electric facilities to

consumers inside and outside the city limits. The existing customer service area of the

electric facilities encompasses approximately 133 square miles of Cameron County,

including substantially the entire City (estimated by the Public Utilities Board at over

96%). The electric system serves a growing base of about 54,008 customers and serves a

peak load of 301 MW. Current power supply resources, mainly owned by the BPUB, are

sufficient to cover demand for the regulatory planning horizon.

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BPUB meets its power supply obligations through a combination of resources: (i) the

operation of the Silas Ray Power Production Facilities owned and operated by the BPUB

(composed of one conventional steam turbine unit and a re-powered steam turbine in

Combined Cycle with a combustion turbine and a GE LM6000 gas turbine generator for

an estimated gas fired capability of 115 MW), (ii) the operation of the Calpine/Hidalgo

combined cycle Power Plant in which BPUB has an ownership interest entitling it to 105

MW of capacity, (iii) a Power Purchase Agreement with Constellation Energy Generation,

LLC, formerly ,Constellation Energy Corporation entitling BPUB to 78 MW of

renewable energy, (iv) a Power Purchase Agreement with AEP Energy Partners, Inc.

entitling the Board to an estimated 65 MW of energy, and (v) economy energy purchases

via the ERCOT Energy Market.

The Water System draws raw water from the Rio Grande River and consists of a river

rock weir, a river pump station, two reservoirs providing 187 million gallons total

capacity, and a raw water transport system. Surface water treatment is achieved by two

water treatment plants providing 40 million gallons per day (MGD) of total capacity (20

MGD treatment capacity each). Two clear wells provide 6.585 million gallons storage

capacity, and four elevated storage tanks provide 7 million gallons of elevated storage

capacity. Water is pumped by three high-service pumping stations into the distribution

system which consists of 715 miles of transmission and distribution mains. BPUB mainly

sells to residential and commercial customers, but also sells treated water on a wholesale

basis to three other water distribution companies that amount to approximately 8.03% of

revenues. The BPUB partnered with the SRWA and built a 7.5 million gallon per day

reverse osmosis water treatment plant of which BPUB has 92.91% ownership. The

Authority’s plant completed an expansion in December 2015 to provide microfiltration

pretreatment and a total production capacity up to 10 MGD. SRWA’s plant includes a 7.5

million gallon storage tank.

The Wastewater System, consisting of collection and treatment facilities, includes

gravity wastewater collection lines, 178 lift stations and two treatment plants. Wastewater

is transported by lift stations and associated force mains to one of two wastewater

treatment plants – the Robindale Plant or the South Plant. The Robindale Plant has a

treatment capacity of 14.5 MGD and provides preliminary waste treatment with new

technology, headworks facility featuring fine screens with head cell grit removal with

combined compactor washer system and includes an odor control system. It also provides

secondary waste treatment utilizing a Modified Ludzack-Ettinger (MLE) process of

activated sludge, turbo blowers with auto dissolved oxygen control, secondary setting,

ultra-violet light system, effluent cascade aeration system, sludge thickening, aerobic

digestion, mechanical sludge dewatering and land disposal of sludge via a Dedicated Land

Disposal (DLD) site of 137 acres. The South Plant has a treatment capacity of 12.8 MGD.

The South Plant treatment process uses activated sludge, complete-mix, and aerobic

digestion. Sludge is thickened and disposed of at a DLD. A two-meter belt filter press is

used for bio-solids dewatering and the headwork facility includes an odor control system.

BPUB’s Fiscal Years 2024-2028 Capital Improvements Plan Budget includes $104.1

million in Electric spending requirements for transmission, distribution and power

production improvements. Funding for the Electric plan is expected to be provided

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primarily from current revenue with some funding from commercial paper issuance

followed by the issuance of long-term debt.

It is also anticipated that the Water and Wastewater System will require approximately

$87.2 million for system improvements. Such improvements will include treatment

facility improvements, reservoir, pump station and lift station improvements, and major

transmission, distribution and collection improvements. It is anticipated that such

improvements will be financed through a combination of current revenues, the issuance

of commercial paper followed by the issuance of long-term debt, Impact Fees, and grants.

The BPUB has authorized commercial paper programs for the Combined Utility Systems

of $100 million in tax-exempt commercial paper.

PROJECT SUMMARY

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) is accepting proposals from qualified

firms to support and perform our migration to the ESRI Utility Network (UN) to replace

the existing legacy ArcGIS system for BPUB’s electric, water, and wastewater assets.

This undertaking would include a readiness assessment, development of a roadmap to

assist BPUB to confidently plan our migration, and ultimately the implementation of the

ESRI Utility Network (UN).

PROJECT BACKGROUND

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board is a municipally owned utility that provides

electric, water, and wastewater services to the City of Brownsville and surrounding areas.

BPUB has a service area of approximately 65.6 square miles. BPUB currently has 60k

electric meters, 60k water meters, and 54k wastewater customers. Our utility GIS data is

fairly comprehensive and is modeled on ESRI’s geometric network and stored and

maintained within an Oracle versioned enterprise geodatabase. Network tracing is

currently enabled for our electric network at this time. BPUB currently views and manages

our utility GIS data in ArcMap 10.8.1 and we use the ArcFM suite of products. We are

currently on ArcGIS Enterprise version 10.9.1 and use ArcGIS Online to support sharing

of our GIS data internally and externally. Like many other utilities, our goal is to migrate

to ESRI’s UN so that we can use ArcGIS Pro as our primary GIS management tool. BPUB

is currently on a ESRI small utility enterprise agreement.

OBJECTIVE

The BPUB is soliciting competitive sealed proposals from interested firms that are able to

support and perform our migration to the ESRI Utility Network (UN) to replace the

existing legacy ArcGIS system for BPUB’s electric, water, and wastewater assets.

After responses to this Request for Proposal (RFP) are received, BPUB will evaluate and

award the qualified firm whose proposal is most advantageous to BPUB with price and

other factors considered.

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This is the opportunity summary page. It provides an overview of this opportunity and a preview of the attached documentation.

ARCGIS ESRI UTILITY NETWORK MIGRATION

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