Automatic Water Metering Solution

The vendor is required to provide automatic water metering solution with an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system including endpoints and network infrastructure that uses a radio frequency signal to gather the meter data and can deliver the data to the city in an acceptable format.
- The city’s IT department to deliver meter data to the current meter data management (MDM) system, integrated with banner customer information system (CIS) and the future cis system with vertex one.
- Provide prop studies to select optimum sites for base stations and antennae.
- Provide the base stations, antennae and other components for the infrastructure. provide as an option, services to install the base station infrastructure.
- Provide training for installing, programming, troubleshooting the endpoints and the base stations.
- The AMI solution offered shall address and support the following requirements:
1. System overview and architecture
•    Provide an overview and block diagram or equivalent of the service provider’s proposed solution describing all equipment. 
•    The effect(s) of weather conditions on the equipment, and how it might interfere with the endpoint’s transmissions. 
•    The typical failure rates of each piece of equipment. 
•    All single points of failure and potential communication bottlenecks, for example:
o    Endpoint
o    Endpoint to collector communication path
o    Collector
o    Communications
2. General requirements
•    A two-way, fixed network, with a fixed or engineered path communications system.
•    communications medium to the meters is to use a based private licensed frequency technology. 
•    If an unlicensed frequency is proposed, specify how the system is protected from interference from other devices. 
•    Specify all operating frequencies, FCC compliance, and service provider’s role in securing any necessary licensing or operating permits.
•    Service providers must supply with proposal a propagation study detailing daily retrieval of all meter data with at least 98.5% of all meters successfully read over a 4-day billing window with no more than (5) collectors, without estimation.
•    All collected data should be time-stamped by endpoint.
•    The host system must transmit all necessary billing data to the cis within 24 hours of the end of the billing cycle.
•    The communications system shall support real-time, on-demand meter reading requests for water metering and shall have an average response time of less than 120 seconds for water meters. 
•    The communications system shall enable remote reconfigurations to all endpoints without a field visit. 
•    Daily usage readings read directly from the meter register rather than using calculated readings. 
•    Daily demand usage and theft and tamper alert data shall be available over communications system. 
•    Theft tamper should be a positive indication independent of traditional tilt and vibration alarms. 
•    All alarms, including power failure, shall be programmable by event type and be reported by an unsolicited event message. 
•    Communications over system to be initiated either by the host system (hosted server) or at the meter point. 
•    Broadcast messaging and endpoint grouping capabilities. 
•    Ability to monitor and report communication statistics from each endpoint. 
•    Utilization of standard TCP and IP connections for data transfer between endpoint collectors and hosted server. 
•    Information stored in commercial meters that are in ANSI c 12.19 format should be up loadable via the AMI system. 
•    Hosted server for all AMI functions at the service providers location. 
•    Required server reliability of 99.9% or greater. 
•    Provide details of data backup system, backup, security and redundancy.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: September 10, 2025