The public redevelopment authority for the former Roosevelt Roads naval base is buying resilience for its water systems - with Hurricane María money. RFP 2027-001, issued October 21, 2026, seeks a full-service architecture-and-engineering firm to design backup power for five critical water facilities at the former Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba: four 80-kilowatt diesel generators for sanitary lift stations, and one 650-kW unit for the Water Treatment Plant. The project is funded under FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for disaster declaration DR-4339-PR - the 2017 Hurricane María declaration - with COR3 as grant recipient and the Local Redevelopment Authority (LRA) as subrecipient. The engineering requirements read as a resilience playbook: every lift-station generator, transfer switch and fuel tank must be elevated at or above the 500-year flood elevation, per the ASCE 24 standard. The generators backstop the five sites that keep sewage moving and drinking water treated when the grid fails - the failure mode that plagued the island after María. The timeline carries a tension worth watching: the current HMGP Phase 1 period of performance ends October 31, 2026, and the extension that would carry it through September 3, 2029 is still pending FEMA approval - not yet granted as the RFP was issued. Phase 2, the actual construction and installation, requires FEMA's separate approval of Phase 1 deliverables after this design contract concludes. The procurement calendar runs fast: mandatory pre-proposal meeting and escorted site visit November 4, 2026 at 10:00 am in Ceiba; questions due November 11; answers November 18; proposals due December 9, 2026 by 5:00 pm at the LRA's Hato Rey offices. The process runs under the LRA's 2024 regulation and federal procurement standards (2 C.F.R. 200.317-.327), whichever is stricter. One detail for infrastructure watchers: Lift Station 1812 sits on a parcel that remains U.S. Government property, leased to the LRA under a Letter of Interim Facility Ownership Control - nine years after the base closed, pieces of its utility estate are still settling.