Seattle City Light, the City of Seattle's municipal electric utility, is seeking an independent audit firm to perform the annual audit of its financial statements for each of five fiscal years, 2027 through 2031. The utility's financial information lives in the City's PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning system and its subsystems, with much of the supporting record available electronically so fieldwork can be performed remotely or on site as the firm proposes. For each year the auditor must issue an opinion on whether the financial statements are fairly presented under generally accepted accounting principles, conducting the work under Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards. The firm delivers separate audit reports under generally accepted auditing standards and government auditing standards, including the report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance. Audited statements must reach the utility's Controller by April 30 of the following year to satisfy bond covenants, and a management letter identifying opportunities to improve internal control follows by May 15. The auditor also confirms compliance with bond covenants and requirements in the City's bond resolutions and ordinances, reviews the draft Annual Report and supplementary schedules within a week of receipt, attends entrance and exit conferences with utility management, Internal Audit, City-wide accounting leadership and the State Auditor, and presents results to the City Council committee overseeing the utility each spring.

San Bernardino County's Purchasing Department seeks qualified firms to deliver digital document accessibility training to County personnel across all departments. The training supports the County's compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Title II Subpart H rule, which adopts WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the standard for state and local government web content and mobile apps, and adds PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) conformance for PDF documents. The County must comply by April 26, 2027, and is already remediating a legacy backlog of nonconforming documents through contracted services. The goal is to equip staff to produce accessible documents at the point of creation and reduce long-term reliance on outside remediation. Required content covers four areas: foundational standards and compliance (ADA Title II, WCAG 2.1, the POUR principles, PDF/UA, and California Government Code sections 7405 and 11135); accessible document analysis and remediation (metadata, headings, tables, alternative text, color contrast, links); accessible forms and complex content (form fields, OCR of scanned files, complex tables, multi-language documents); and testing and quality assurance with Adobe Accessibility Checker, PAC, CommonLook, JAWS and NVDA. Instruction must also cover County practices, including pre-publication validation, classifying documents as active, archival or exempt, routing remediation requests through ServiceNow, and using County tools such as DocAccess.

The City of Santa Clarita seeks a professional assessment engineering firm to manage the annual levy, formation and annexation of the special assessment districts that fund citywide maintenance. The districts include a 63-zone Landscape Maintenance District, a Streetlight Maintenance District covering about 18,000 LED streetlights, fifteen Drainage Benefit Assessment Areas, the Open Space Preservation District, the Golden Valley Open Space Preservation District, the Vista Canyon Wastewater Standby District, and the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Fee. The City expects a one-year initial contract with four optional one-year renewals and an estimated contract value of $125,000. On the annual cycle, the consultant would research and reconcile Assessor parcel data against the prior-year levy, review district budgets, and prepare an Engineer's Report for each district setting the coming year's assessment rates, including benefit analysis, apportionment methodology, assessment diagram and roll. It would then prepare, validate and submit the direct-assessment levy file to the Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller through its submission procedures, resolve exception reports until the County confirms acceptance, and mail handbills for parcels that cannot be placed on the County tax roll. The consultant must also keep a compliance matrix for each district covering governing authority, maximum authorized rates, CPI escalation provisions, and noticing and balloting requirements, and flag any change that would trigger additional Proposition 218 procedures.

The City of Sunnyvale is seeking a licensed architectural firm to provide design, bid-document preparation and construction-support services for the renovation of the Main Library, a 60,800 square foot building from the 1960s. The City wants to extend the useful life of the facility and modernize its systems and public spaces while keeping the library open during construction. The work begins with a conditions assessment of a limited set of building systems: HVAC, electrical and electrical rooms, lighting, life safety, roofing tied to any HVAC work, and plumbing focused on the existing restrooms. The consultant also performs a hazardous materials investigation and the survey and utility locating the Building Division requires, then delivers a report offering a menu of repair and upgrade options with costs.

The City of Santa Maria seeks a consulting firm to serve as Owner's Advisor on the rehabilitation of the City-owned Town Center East Parking Structure in downtown Santa Maria, California. The project is a design-build public works effort focused on structural repair, including concrete, post-tensioning systems, cracking, columns, drainage, and coatings. The advisor will act as an independent extension of City staff, protecting the City's interests in scope, quality, cost, schedule, and risk, without assuming the contractual responsibilities of the design-builder, designer of record, or construction contractor, and without directing their means and methods. The work is organized into eight tasks. Project management and support keeps the effort coordinated against scope, schedule, and budget. Design phase support reviews the design-builder's deliverables, comments, meeting summaries, and project controls documents through the Final Design Documents, advising on constructability, durability and service life, repair methodology, phasing, and parking operations impacts. Construction phase support covers review of safety plans, inspection and quality control records, requests for information, requests for clarification, design change notices, shop drawings, submittals, change order requests, potential claims, and payment applications, along with progress meetings and periodic site observations.

The City of Sacramento Department of Utilities seeks a design team for the Water+ Plants Improvements Project, which will make the City's two surface water treatment plants, the Sacramento River Water Treatment Plant (SRWTP) and the E. A. Fairbairn Water Treatment Plant (FWTP), safer, more reliable and more resilient. The project replaces assets that have reached the end of their useful lives, upgrades treatment to handle changing river water quality and drinking water regulations, and expands SRWTP capacity from 160 to 310 million gallons per day in phases. Basis of design reports for both plants are the starting point for design. The contract has four phases: design of all elements through 90 percent; 100 percent design and construction support for FWTP resiliency improvements, equipping of two FWTP groundwater wells and a short list of SRWTP items; the same for the remaining SRWTP resiliency work and the North B Street 36-inch transmission main replacement; and the SRWTP expansion. Design must sequence temporary and permanent work around limited winter plant outages so water production continues throughout construction. The firm also prepares environmental documentation (including NEPA support and an addendum to the existing EIR for the wells), a solar cost-benefit study, finish reservoir flow modeling, structural load ratings, a drainage study, pilot testing support, control strategies, standard operating procedures, value engineering and coordination with utilities and regulators.