RFPopen🌐 Alberta (APC)AB-2026-04575
Alberta Northern Basin Modelling Project
Environment and Protected Areas
Description
This project aims to enhance, recalibrate, validate, and operationalize the existing HydroGeoSphere (HGS) models for the Peace and Athabasca River Basin in northern Alberta to support near real-time, short-term, and seasonal hydrological forecasting. Both basins have been identified as priority due to recent multi-year droughts, changing snowpack and ice dynamics, reduced wetland and peatland storage, and increasing water-use pressures on communities, industry, and aquatic ecosystems. Unlike many southern Alberta basins that benefit from extensive reservoir infrastructure, the Peace and Athabasca basins are heavily reliant on natural storage in snowpack, wetlands, lakes, and shallow groundwater systems, making them especially vulnerable to prolonged dry conditions and low flows. EPA has previously invested in the development of HGS models for northern river basins, including the Peace and Athabasca River Basins, primarily for climate-change impact assessment. The developed models represent fully integrated surface–subsurface hydrology and capture key processes such as surface runoff, groundwater flow, and snowmelt. However, they are not yet configured for operational forecasting, as they lack real-time meteorological data integration needed for model initialization (e.g., digital twin implementation), and require additional optimization, validation, and workflow enhancements to support robust near real-time streamflow forecasting.
Details?
- Posted
- Jun 17, 2026
- Response deadline
- Jul 10, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
- Type
- RFP
- Category
- SRV
- Status
- open
- Buyer
- Environment and Protected Areas
- Jurisdiction
- Alberta (APC)
- Location
- Alberta
- Reference #
- AB-2026-04575
- Status Order
- 2
- @Search Score
- 1
- Commodity Codes
- 70170000, 70171500, 70171505, 70171600, 70171606, 70171607, 81000000, 81101520, 81150000, 81151800, 81151804, 81151806
- Agreement Type Code
- TA-01
- Ai Version Keywords
- alberta northern basin, hydrological forecasting, hydrogeosphere models, peace river basin, athabasca river basin, climate-change impact assessment, surface subsurface hydrology, real-time data integr
- Submission Details
- Proposals must be submitted electronically, via email, in native electronic format (like Microsoft Word and Excel) and Adobe Acrobat format by the RFP Closing Date and Time to the following email addr
- Project Description
- This project aims to enhance, recalibrate, validate, and operationalize the existing HydroGeoSphere (HGS) models for the Peace and Athabasca River Basin in northern Alberta to support near real-time,
- Solicitation Number
- 27TDRWCE814
- Commodity Code Titles
- Water resources development and oversight, Water resource development service, River basin development, Water quality management services, Water resource recovery services, Water pricing services, Eng
- Opportunity Type Code
- OPEN-COMPETITIVE
- Question Submission Details
- All questions and any form of communication between the Proponents and the Province in relation to this RFP must be submitted in writing to the Contracting Manager. All questions and responses will be
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