CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of RFP 25-068, New SCADA, DERMS, and OMS Platform Purchase, Deployment, and Integration, to Survalent for an amount not to exceed $2,250,021, plus a 3% contingency on implementation costs, and for a six-year term
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DEPARTMENT: Electric Utility
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Groth, Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
The Electric Utility (Utility) first implemented its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system in the early 1990s to enable real-time monitoring and control of substation assets and distribution automation (DA) switchgear. This deployment enhanced grid visibility, which improved operational efficiency and reduced outage durations. Since the initial implementation, the Utility has periodically performed software and hardware refreshes to maintain system reliability and performance, with the most recent major upgrade completed in 2020.
Currently, the Utility is performing a SCADA communications upgrade project. The goal is to modernize field hardware and transition to industry-standard communication protocols. By doing this, the field hardware systems and control room software systems will be vendor agnostic and systems can be independently upgraded. At the completion of this project, the Utility will be upgrading its SCADA system to take advantage of new technologies now available in the market.
The Utility procured its existing Geographic Information System (GIS) centric Outage Management System (OMS) in 2021. The goal of this software procurement was to improve operational efficiencies by monitoring specific metrics, dispatching Utility crews, providing greater safety for crews by tracking isolation procedures, and providing greater transparency in operations to other municipal departments. Shortly after the deployment was completed, and prior to rolling the software out to other departments, the Utility learned that the GIS foundation would need to be up...
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