TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Allison Swisher, Director of Public Utilities
SUBJECT:
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Approval of Amendment No. 1 to the Professional Services Agreement for the Water Meter Asset Management Program to Core & Main LP in the Amount of $95,000.00
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BACKGROUND:
On March 8, 2025, the Mayor and City Council approved a professional services agreement with Core & Main LP in the not-to-exceed amount of $469,727.00 to implement Xylem Vue which is a water meter asset management program that brings together real-time data from advanced meter infrastructure (AMI), the City's GIS system, work orders, SCADA, and flow sensors to help manage and provide reporting on the City's non-revenue water (NRW) reduction activities. The scope of this Phase 1 project included implementing the platform and hosting the platform and providing support for 12 months. The scope of work for the implementation of Phase 1 included three modules: Meter Data Analytics, Meter Asset Management, and Leak Detection.
The implementation phase of the Phase 1 project is nearing completion, and the next phase of the program will add reporting and dashboarding capabilities, which Xylem Vue Inc. calls "Unified Network Manager" (UNM). UNM provides the ability to better visualize and compare the different NRW performance metrics between district meter areas (DMA). Staff can use the dashboard to track and compare differences between DMAs as well as go back in time and compare changes over time. These features will allow City staff to have real time views of daily water loss in each zone, will alert staff of anomalies in water use, and will allow City staff to add additional dashboard views as more zones are added and as the software is further implemented into daily operations.
The Public Service Committee will review this matter.
CONCLUSION:
Xylem Vue Inc., in coordination with the Core & Main LP team (the local distributor), has provided a proposal for Phase 2 of the Water Meter Asset Mana...
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