This Request for Proposals (the “RFP”) is an invitation by the Regional Municipality of Niagara (“Niagara Region”) to prospective proponents to submit proposals for 2025-RFP-80 Niagara Irrigation Initiative Project: Feasibility, Costing, and Preliminary Design Study, as further described in Section A of the RFP Particulars (Appendix B) (the “Deliverables”).
Niagara’s specialty crop lands are one of only a few areas in Canada with climate and soil conditions suitable for high value crops such as grapes and tender fruit. The impacts of climate change, such as drought conditions, have highlighted the need for new and improved irrigation infrastructure across Niagara.
Several studies have been conducted to assess the necessity, potential advantages, and the most suitable governance system for such an irrigation system. These studies have laid the groundwork for a communal irrigation system providing water to horticultural farming operations in the area below the Niagara Escarpment between Beamsville and St. Catharines.
The next step towards implementation of a system is to undertake a Feasibility, Costing, and Preliminary Design Study (“Study”) is to advance this previous irrigation work.