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Bids Requested to Paint Water Tower

Wednesday, January 6, 2016


The City of Tracy is seeking contractors interested in the repainting of a steel water tower located in the California town.

Bids are due Jan. 20.

Scope of Work

Work includes repainting of the existing 100,000-gallon steel lattice truss water tower. Originally built in 1928, the structure reaches 140 feet high.

Hamid Pouya, Stuctech Engineering
Hamid Pouya, Structech Engineering

The City of Tracy is seeking contractors interested in the repainting of a 100,000-gallon steel water tower.

The contractor will oversee surface preparation, cleaning, and painting of exterior exposed structural steel and other metal surfaces.

Work includes hand, power-tool or solvent cleaning of the tank roof; sides; bottom; perimeter and lower catwalks; standpipes; and upper tank ladder. Following that, an alkyd aluminum system will be used where existing paint is in sound condition. In rusted areas, a direct-to-metal industrial enamel primer and an alkyd aluminum finish coat will be used.

The tank’s base plates will require hand cleaning before application of a four-coat epoxy system with sealer, filler and two finish coatings.

Work will also include application of logos with a gloss finish coating. The contractor will design a triangle or leaf logo to replace the existing yellow “TRACY” lettering.

City of Tracy
City of Tracy

The contractor will oversee surface preparation, cleaning and painting of exterior exposed structural steel and other metal surfaces.

The paint manufacturer specified for the coatings in this project is PPG Protective & Marine Coatings.

Interior painting is not covered by this contract.

This project will require a C33 Painting Contractor’s License.

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