TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Allison Swisher, Director of Public Utilities
SUBJECT:
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Award of Contract for the Transfer of the City of Joliet's Satellite Flow Monitoring Sites to the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) System to Metropolitan Industries in the Amount of $196,475.00
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Joliet Department of Public Utilities currently contracts with Xylem Vue Inc. for telemetry communication for the City of Joliet satellite sanitary sewer flow meters. The flow meters are located at the satellite customer's connection point to the City's sewer system or on critical industrial discharges. Many of these flow monitoring sites are used for billing purposes so communication is critical. Xylem Vue Inc. is sunsetting their online web portal service that currently hosts the City's satellite flow monitoring sites on December 31, 2025. Therefore, it is time sensitive to transfer these sites to the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system.
Each SCADA system is comprised of multiple pieces of hardware and complex code that controls multiple systems and pieces of equipment. The City has standardized on hardware from Metropolitan Industries for the SCADA system. Staff requested Metropolitan Industries provide a proposal to transfer the 17 flow monitoring sites to the SCADA System.
The Public Service Committee will review this matter.
CONCLUSION:
Metropolitan Industries has provided a proposal, in an amount not to exceed $196,475.00, to provide and install the equipment needed to transfer the 17 sites onto the City's SCADA system. Once transferred to the City's SCADA system, the City will no longer need to contract with a third party for data service for these sites.
Section 2-438 of the City of Joliet Code of Ordinances states that purchases whose estimated cost is in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) may be awarded without written specifications or bidding under certain circumstances...
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