On-Call Generation Engineering Services

The City of Seattle is seeking qualifications for On-Call Generation Engineering Services . Qualifications are due no later than 1:00 pm on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 . All questions are to be submitted through the e-procurement portal at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/seattle no later than 1:00 pm on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 .

The purpose of issuing this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is to contract for On-Call Generation Engineering Services on an as-needed basis from qualified consulting firms to provide engineering and related project services for the Generation portfolio of Seattle City Light (City Light). City Light reserves the option of contracting with one or more Consultants through this RFQ process. Consultants may be comprised of teams of one or more firms and are encouraged to include Women and Minority Business Enterprise (WMBE) firms as part of the team. For the purposes of this RFQ, the term Consultant shall refer to the prime Consultant responding to this solicitation, inclusive of any subconsultants. It is anticipated that this RFQ will result in awarding a Contract to multiple prime consultants, henceforth referred to as Consultant(s) in this RFQ.

This project will be done as a series of task orders (Work Assignments/Work Authorization/WA). It is the intention of City Light to award to multiple consultants and develop general contracts. Specific task orders (WAs) will be developed with individual firm’s based on expertise and performance by the consultant.

The selected Consultant(s) will provide engineering and related professional services to assist City Light’s Generation Engineering, Operations, and Project Delivery teams. Refer to the Scope of Work below for the range of services that may be included.

City Light owns and operates seven hydroelectric powerhouses from six dams owned by City Light which comprise the current Generation portfolio: Boundary Dam, Ross Dam, Diablo Dam, Gorge Dam, Newhalem Creek, and Cedar Falls Masonry Dam; and one dam owned by Seattle Public Utilities (SPU): South Fork Tolt Dam. Cedar Falls and Tolt are jointly operated and managed by City Light and SPU. All dams, with the exception of Cedar Falls, are regulated by the FERC as provided in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 18, Part 12. Cedar Falls is regulated by the Washington State Department of Ecology (WA DOE). All dams are within the State of Washington.

This work will be primarily funded by operation and maintenance (O&M) and capital improvement project (CIP) budgets allocated to Seattle City Light’s Generation Operations and Facilities