Pomona Water Project Moves to Bid Evaluation After Aug. 3 Deadline

Pomona’s Water Production Electrical Improvements Phase 1 project reached its bid deadline Aug. 3, moving a planned upgrade at five city-owned water-production facilities from solicitation toward bid evaluation and a possible contract recommendation or award.

The project covers electrical work tied to automation and control systems at Pomona water-production sites. The deadline marks progress in the city’s procurement process, but it is not a contract award. The available records do not identify a winning bidder, a contract amount, an award date or a construction-start date.

What Pomona is seeking

The project is identified as Water Production Electrical Improvements Phase 1, also listed as Project 95083. Its scope includes replacing automation and control systems and completing related electrical improvements at five water-production facilities owned by the City of Pomona.

Those systems are connected to the operation of the city’s water-production infrastructure. The project records describe the work as part of reliability and modernization efforts, giving the procurement a direct connection to a core municipal utility service.

One listed site is the Anion Exchange Plant at 1374 E. Third St., Pomona, California 91766. Production Well No. 1 is also identified in the project’s facility information. The records do not provide the names and addresses of all five facilities in the approved packet.

Why the deadline matters

A bid deadline is a key point in a public construction procurement because it closes the period for contractors to submit offers. The city can then review the bids and determine whether to recommend or authorize a contract.

For Pomona residents, the practical significance is that the city is advancing a project aimed at modernizing electrical, automation and control equipment used at water-production facilities. The records, however, do not establish that the improvements are a response to a current outage, contamination event or service failure.

They also do not establish that construction has started. Until the city identifies an award and a contractor, the project remains in the post-solicitation review stage described by the available records.

What happens next

The next expected step is evaluation of the submitted bids. If the city proceeds, that process could lead to a contract recommendation or award. Later procurement, contract or authorization actions are expected to appear through the City of Pomona’s council agenda and document repository.

The approved records do not provide a deadline for the evaluation, a date for council consideration or a schedule for construction. They also do not state the project’s estimated or final cost. Those details remain unresolved and should not be treated as established until they appear in a subsequent city action or project document.

For now, the confirmed development is limited but concrete: Pomona’s Phase 1 solicitation for electrical, automation and control improvements at five city water-production facilities reached its Aug. 3, 2026 bid deadline. The project is positioned for review, while the contractor, price and construction timeline remain unknown.