Title
Approval of Services Agreement No. AGR19-18 with Transmission & Distribution Services, LLC in the amount of $195,000.00 plus Applicable Gross Receipts Tax, for the Purpose of On-call Services for Utility Power Distribution Electrical Engineering
Recommended Action
I move that the Board of Public Utilities approve Services Agreement No. AGR19-18 with Transmission & Distribution Services, LLC in the amount of $195,000.00 plus Applicable Gross Receipts Tax, for the Purpose of On-call Services for Utility Power Distribution Electrical Engineering
Staff Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Board approve as presented.
Body
The department performs the vast majority of the electrical engineering (“EE”) design work in-house to operate, maintain, and expand its electrical distribution system. However, certain EE design services for large substation projects are best suited to a third party consulting electrical engineer. Consultants perform critical substation type work on a routine basis and are aware of the latest trends for commissioning new electrical distribution substations.
The Los Alamos Switchgear Substation, (“LASS”) is in place and has been temporarily powered by the department. The temporary power feed provides station service for all electronic devices and maintains the battery system fully charged. LASS will be fed with permanent power from LANL’s new TA-3 substation; tentatively planned for late Spring, early Summer 2019. Prior to the seamless integration of LASS into the LAC DPU distribution grid, there are two critical EE tasks remaining:
1. The programming of ten (10) feeder relays and three (3) back-up bus & differential protection relays. The relays “protect” the $1.4 million substation and the multi-million distribution grid from essentially “melting down during short-circuits”.
2. The commissioning or “start-up” of LASS is where each of (13) breaker bays and related electronic devices are methodically energized at 15,000 volts...
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