Request for Proposals
La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians Bureau of Reclamation Well 2 Project
La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians
December 5, 2025
The proposed Scope of Work is to provide engineering and project management services with
the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians (Band) Water Department for the complete design of a
block pumphouse, watermain and well testing off of Tomanva Road on the La Jolla Indian
Reservation. The work will include preparing stamped engineering design plans, contract
documents for advertising with specifications, request for quotes (RFQ) as needed,
environmental clearances and other ancillary work in support of the work as described below:
1. Well Testing: Contractor to prepare a request for quotes for use by the Band with
specifications and on site project management for a 10 day pump test per the State of
California hard rock well testing requirements. Contractor to meet on site for a prebid
meeting, review quotes, make a recommendation, review the pump test data and
recommend equipping the well with pump, drop pipe, power requirements.
2. Water Quality Testing per US EPA primary and secondary requirements. Contractor to
provide request for quotes for conducting testing for all EPA-regulated primary
(microorganisms, inorganic, organic, and radionuclides) and secondary contaminants.
This test to include alkalinity, calcium, corrosivity (Langelier Index) Hardness (Total),
Hardness (Carbonate) and Silica. This item can be combined with the Well Testing RFQ.
3. Block Pump House: A two room block pump house, approximately 10’x 24’ design,
stamped plan set with specifications and contract documents. Pump house to include
piping, valves, water meter, ventilation, drains, safety equipment, pump house electrical
and pump electrical controls. Chemical feed pumps to be interlocked to operate upon
both operation of pump and flow of water. Equipment to be specified will be coordinated
with the Band after award.
4. Water Main Design: Contractor to provide water main plans with plan and profile for
approximately 1,600 feet of watermain including standard details. Plans to be stamped
and ready for advertising in conjunction with a contract package.
5. Environmental Clearances: Contractor to provide a request for quotes and advertise for
biological survey and historical properties report of the proposed pump house and water
main corridor. Contractor to utilize checklist provided by the Owner.
6. Initial coordination with the Band and SDG&E for power extension to the proposed
pump house.
The Contractor to provide request for quotes for the Bands use to advertise in seeking
geotechnical work, a biological survey, land surveying (with temporary bench marks to be used
during construction), historical properties survey. If the Contractor wishes to provide all
ancillary work in house, the Contractor shall list names of sub-contractors and pricing separately.
The final documents will consist of California Licensed Engineer stamped watermain and pump
house plans sets, and contract documents that are ready for bidding. These items will be
provided to the Band’s Water Department Manager review and approval.
Proposals from the Engineering Firms will be evaluated on the following criteria:
1. Experience providing design work for the specific items listed above.
2. Experience providing request for quotes in support of project goals.
3. Experience providing complete contract packages including contract documents,
specifications, plans and drawings.
4. Experience managing similar engineering projects including sub-contractors.
5. Experience managing tribal procurements and federal procurements.
6. Experience working with tribal governments.
7. Explanation of how the work would proceed with a proposed schedule.
8. Tribally owned and operated entities, women owned entities, minority owned entities,
disabled veteran owned entities and veteran owned companies.
Note that there is no requirement for all of the evaluation criteria to be met and all proposals will
be evaluated based upon scoring criteria as listed above and if there is a tie then costs shall be
considered. If the proposals come in higher than the available amount for engineering design
work with environmental clearances the Band may readvertise or negotiate with the most
qualified proposal. It is anticipated that the design work should be completed within 4 months of
award.
A site visit can be coordinated with the project manager, Mr. Nathan Howard.
Proposals are due by January 30th, 2026 2:00 PST via email to:
Mr. Nathan Howard, La Jolla Domestic Water Manager / Public Works Director
Office: (760) 907-1411