Master Services Agreement
Engineering – Planning & Design Services
Date of Award: October 2017
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Serviced from both Regional Offices located in Alabama and California
- Distribution Underground Networking and Residential Engineering Services
- Planning, Property and ROW Acquisition
- Customer load and load-growth studies
- Design and Mapping
- Heavy Downtown Underground
- UG Cable Replacement
- UG Structure Analysis, Repair & Replacement
- Commercial / Residential URD
- Overhead Distribution (Feeders / Lateral)
- Field survey / data collection
- Reconductor
- New Construction
- System Hardening
- Design and Mapping
- Voltage Conversions
Asset Management Services
Date of Award: June 2001
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Primarily serviced from Regional Office located in St. Louis, MO
- Field Services Provided:
- Asset Inventory
- Proprietary hand-held collection device, Pole Data Collector (PDC)
- Asset record management – upload, reconcile, update & download
- GPS location, physical address, billing reference & power attachments
- Joint-Use attachments
- Street & area lighting
- Pole tags & numbering
- Inspection of Transmission & Distribution OH & UG facilities
- Ground-based patrol
- Aerial drone inspections
- Visual, destructive test & infrared scan
- Storm assessment – first response & following clean-up
- Pole Test & Treatment
- Pole Reinforcement
- Asset Auditing
- NESC clearance & NERC compliance
- Post construction
- Worst-performing circuits
Overhead Line Distribution Engineering & Design Services
Date of Award: June 2001
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Serviced from both Corporate and Regional Offices located in Kansas City, MO and St. Louis, MO
- Engineering & Technical Services
- Planning, Property & ROW Acquisition
- Pole-Load Analysis (PLA)
- Customer load & load-growth studies
- Worst-performing circuit remediation
- Design & Mapping – Transmission & Distribution, Protection & Control, Automation
- Voltage conversion, power quality & harmonics, effective system grounding
- Reinforcement, re-build, re-conductor & storm hardening
- Joint-Use, “Make-Ready”
- Outdoor lighting & signals
- Permitting & traffic control planning
- Post-construction inspection, punch list, acceptance & as-built
Underground Networking Distribution Engineering & Design Services
Date of Award: June 2001
Scheduled Completion: Open
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Primarily serviced from Corporate Office located in Kansas City, MO
- Engineering & Technical Services
- Planning, Property & ROW Acquisition
- Customer load & load-growth studies, worst-performing circuit remediation
- Design & Mapping – Transmission & Distribution, Protection & Control, Automation
- Infrastructure – foundations, vaults, manholes, flatwork & raceways
- Voltage conversion, power quality & harmonics, effective system grounding
- Post-construction inspection, punch list, acceptance & as-built
Master Services Agreement – Distribution Overhead and Underground Services
Date of Award: September 2018
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Serviced from Regional office located in St. Louis, MO
- Meter Services
- Meter Reading 2018-2019
- Disconnect/Reconnect Services 2018-2109
- Meter Safety/QC Inspections 2018-2019
Distribution Overhead and Underground Engineering & Design
Date of Award: August 2013
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Serviced from Regional Office located in Sumner, WA
- Distribution Engineering / Design Services
- Deteriorated Pole Replacement
- Infrastructure Enhancements
- UG Cable Replacement
- OH/UG Equipment (new install & replacement)
- Capacitors, Switches, Transformers
- Overhead Reconductoring
- New Feeder Circuits
- Drafting Services
- Permitting Services
- Meter Installation Coordination
- Policy Development
- Construction Standards Development
- Material Specification
- Coordinate Constriction Assets
- Construction Installation Approval and Acceptance
Inspection Services – Google Fiber & Other Third-Party Attachers
Date of Award: March 2016
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Serviced from Regional Offices in San Antonio, TX as well as Corporate and Regional Offices located in Kansas City, MO and St. Louis, MO
- Working directly for and in support of CPS Energy
- Project Management Office
- Full-time Project Manager, Project Supervision, engineering and administrative support
- Engineering application compliance with CPS Standards
- Desktop review of Make-Ready Engineering applications
- Field review of MRE applications
- Application status reporting in compliance with CPS schedule commitments
- Construction Inspection
- Lead and participate in daily crew safety tailboards
- Validate crew performance with industry best practices and CPS’ expectations
- Ensure installation is consistent with accepted “For Construction” plans as approved by CPS
- Document any simple deviations (red-line) as acceptable to CPS by best practices or CPS Standards
- Document complex deviations between field and plan, escalate to CPS for timely remedy or redesign
Overhead & Underground Engineering Services
Date of Award: June 2017
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Serviced from Regional Offices in San Antonio, TX, as well as Corporate Offices located in Kansas City, MO
- Engineering of Electric Distribution Disciplines
- Underground 1 & 3 Phase Primary & Secondary Systems
- Underground Residential Distribution Systems
- Underground Downtown Network Systems
- Overhead and Underground Streetlight Systems
- Texas Department of Transportation Relocations
Engineering & Inspection Services – Google Fiber & Other Third-Party Attachers
Date of Award: April 2015
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Serviced from both Regional Offices located in Atlanta, GA; Corporate and Regional Offices located in Kansas City, MO and St. Louis, MO
- Working directly for and in support of Georgia Power
- Project Management Office
- Establishment of local office in greater Atlanta
- Full-time Project Manager
- Full-time Project Supervision, engineering and administrative support
- Engineering application compliance with GPC Standards
- Desktop review of Make-Ready Engineering applications
- Field review of MRE applications
- Application status reporting in compliance with GPC schedule commitments
- Construction Inspection
- Lead and participate in daily crew safety tailboards
- Validate crew performance with industry best practices and GPC’s’ expectations
- Ensure installation is consistent with accepted “For Construction” plans as approved by GPC
- Document any simple deviations (red-line) as acceptable to GPC by best practices or GPC Standard
- Document complex deviations between field and plan; escalate to GPC for timely remedy or redesign
- Storm Assessment Services
- Support local GPC Operations in tropical storm damage recovery
- Validate reported outage remedy as complete
- Document remaining recovery work, stand by and make safe where unsafe conditions remain
- Document ancillary clean-up of work site debris and landscape
Master Services Agreement – Distribution Underground Networking and Residential Engineering & Design
Date of Award: April 2015
Contract Status: Ongoing
- Serviced from Corporate Offices located in Kansas City, MO
- Distribution Underground Networking and Residential Engineering Services
- Planning, Property and ROW Acquisition
- Customer load and load-growth studies
- Design and Mapping
- Worst-Performing Circuit Remediation
- Voltage Conversions
- Field survey / data collection
- Pole-Load Analysis
- Electronic mapping, materials registrar, scheduling and procurement
- Permitting & Traffic Control Plans
- Coordination with other joint users (AT&T, Comcast, etc.)
Engineer, Procure, & Construct (EPC)
Date of Award: May 2018
Contract Status: Completed
- Serviced from Corporate Offices located in Kansas City, MO
- Storm Hardening Replacement of 515 miles of single-phase, rural distribution across MEC service territory
- Approximately 16,000-Pole Installation
- Fast-Track Project
- 200 Discrete Line Sections
- Integrated Engineering Model
- LiDAR Data Collection (Electronic Upload to Design)
- PLS-CADD Design (Outside MEC System)
- Create MEC Standards Template & Material BOMs
- Plan & Profile Drawings
- Pole-Load Analysis
- Custom As-Built Process
- Electronic Update of MEC Systems
- Material Procurement – Utilizing MEC Blanket Pricing
- Separate Material Receipt, Storage, & Expediting
- MEC Standards BOMs
- Reconciliation by Map
- Construction (Sister Company PAR Electrical Contractors, Inc.)
- Construction Safety Plan
- Distribution Operations Center Coordination
- Locates
- PMO
- Project Controls – P6 Schedule; Project Reporting
- QA/QC Plan – Audit, Punch-list & MEC Acceptance
- Permitting
- Electric Customer Outreach, Concerns, & Design Considerations