CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of RFP 25-191, Electric GIS Utility Network Implementation and Migration, to RAMTeCH Software Solutions, Inc. for an amount not to exceed $2,469,059
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DEPARTMENT: Electric Utility
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Groth, Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
N/A
BACKGROUND:
The City's Geographical Information System (GIS) houses information related to a wide variety of assets and owned facilities and has gone through several iterations and upgrades over the years. For GIS and mapping of its Distribution Network, the Electric Utility ("Utility") began using ArcInfo and ArcFM in the 1990s. A migration to the ArcGIS/ArcFM 8.x geodatabase system was performed in 2002.
Since that time, ArcFM module extensions have been added that allow the Utility to perform electrical system designs, track underground conduit and fiber usage, as well as perform outage management functions. The ESRI-based core product, on which all of these software packages rely, will reach vendor-mandated end-of-life in March 2028, requiring the Utility to migrate its data and integrations to ESRI's next generation of GIS, called the Utility Network.
As the system of record for all the Utility's infrastructure data, the GIS supports numerous key business processes and systems so these integrations must be maintained. Distribution engineering is currently performed using an ArcMap-based system, which must be replaced as part of the Utility Network implementation.
In September 2025, the Electric Utility issued RFP 25-191, Electric GIS Utility Network Implementation and Migration, to select a vendor responsible for designing, implementing, and deploying the new GIS platform for the Utility. This deployment will also include the GIS-based engineering design software and migration of existing data to the new system.
DISCUSSION:
Advertisement Date:
09/05/2025
Notices Sent:
155
Opening Date:
10/9/2025
Planholders:
73
Proposals Received:|1...
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