STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Sustainable
AGENDA DATE: August 13, 2025
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): Citywide, Outside City Limits
DEPARTMENT: Dallas Water Utilities Department
EXECUTIVE: Dev Rastogi
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SUBJECT
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Authorize Supplemental Agreement No. 1 to the professional engineering services contract with CDM Smith, Inc. to provide additional services required for the Water Delivery Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition and Meandering Way High Improvements Project - Not to exceed $604,896.00, from $2,530,000.00 to $3,134,896.00 - Financing: Water Capital Improvement F Fund
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BACKGROUND
The City of Dallas Water Utilities Department (DWU) provides drinking water and fire flow protection to approximately 2.6 million people in the city of Dallas and 23 customer cities. DWU’s water delivery system consists of 29 pump stations, 23 storage tanks, 18 pressure planes, and over 5,076 miles of pipeline infrastructure. A supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system is used to operate and control the delivery of water.
On December 9, 2020, the City Council authorized an engineering services contract for the evaluation, preliminary design, development of construction plans and specifications, construction phase services, and start-up assistance for SCADA system and Meandering Way High pressure plane improvements. The existing SCADA system “top end” was originally installed in 2012 and has reached the end-of-support and is operating with expired warranties. Existing SCADA hardware and operating software will be evaluated and upgraded to support the City of Dallas adopted technology frameworks and standards, to comply with the Department of Homeland Security guidelines and recommendations, and to have flexibility to expand for future needs.
This action will authorize Supplemental Agreement No. 1 to the professional services contract with CDM Smith, Inc. to provide additional engineering services to perform upgrades to the Water Delivery SCADA system to meet current standards and additional design to optimize treated water service delivery to customers and businesses within the Meandering Way High pressure plane to address economic development and population growth and as recommended by the recently completed comprehensive distribution system assessment.
ESTIMATED SCHEDULE OF PROJECT
Begin Services August 2025
Complete Services December 2025
PRIOR ACTION/REVIEW (COUNCIL, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS)
On December 9, 2020, the City Council authorized a professional services contract with CDM Smith, Inc., to provide engineering services for the Water Delivery Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition and Meandering Way High Improvements by Resolution No. 20-1927.
FISCAL INFORMATION
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Fund |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
Future Years |
|
Water Capital Improvement F Fund |
$604,896.00 |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
Design $2,530,000.00
Supplemental Agreement No. 1 (this action) $ 604,896.00
Project Total $3,134,896.00
LOCAL PARTICIPATION
|
Prime |
Status |
Workforce % |
|
CDM Smith, Inc. |
Local |
19.04% |
OWNER/EXECUTIVE
CDM Smith, Inc.
Timothy Wall, Chief Executive Officer
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