CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of Cooperative Procurement 25-192, Substation Fiber Optic Cable, to Graybar, Inc. for an amount not to exceed $120,155.58
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DEPARTMENT: Electric Utility
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Groth, Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
N/A
BACKGROUND:
City departments, including Police, Fire, Water, and others, depend on the Electric Utility's fiber optic network to enable communications across multiple locations. This fiber optic network supports a wide range of systems, including the city intranet, protective relaying for substations, meters, SCADA communications, video camera feeds, voice over IP phones, smart grid data transfer, and control room notifications.
To keep up with rising demand for additional fiber connections throughout the city, the Electric Utility has been upgrading its' infrastructure from 24-count fiber to 288-count fiber to match. To date the Electric Utility has completed 288-count fiber optic cable upgrades between locations such as Electric Service Center to Jefferson Substation, Washington Substation to Modaff Substation and the Modaff Substation to Royce Substation.
DISCUSSION:
To continue the network infrastructure buildout the Electric Utility needs to install a new link connecting the Royce Electric Substation to the Springbrook Electric Substation. This link will be key in providing an additional redundancy path should an existing link get damaged by construction, natural disaster, vandalism, etc.
Staff has identified an approved cooperative contract, Omnia Partners Cooperative Contract #EV2370 through Graybar Inc. for the procurement of the 288-count fiber optic cable, the material is to be delivered by October 15, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
CIP #: EU044
The requested award will be charged to the account number listed below. The 2025 budget includes $608,000 for the first phase of this project. The award amount is $120,155.58, which is favorable to the budget.
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