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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Approving And Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Execute Amendment No. 1 With Aclara Technologies, LLC. To Upgrade The Aclara Contract To Include Mobile Programmer And DCU Maintenance, Along With Professional Services In An Annual Amount Up To $4,964.64 For Three Years, Which Includes A One Time Training Fee In An Amount Up To $5,725.00 Pursuant To Section 38.41(C)(2) Of The Procurement Code. ("Sole Source")
Strategic Plan Focus
Infrastructure & Facilities
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
The Department of Public Utilities ("Department") owns, operates, and maintains an advanced metering infrastructure ("AMI System") that records, collects, and transmits water consumption data to the Department's billing system. The Department's AMI System consists of a water meter with a register to record water consumption at each service location and the water consumption data recorded by each register is collected and transmitted by a meter transmission unit ("MTU") to a network of data collection units ("DCU's").
The Department's AMI system was installed between 2009 and 2012 and consists of approximately 41,500 MTU's, and 10 DCU's. These DCU's transmit consumption data to the Aclara Technologies LLC's, (the vendor, "Aclara") Meter Data Management System called "STAR", which interfaces with the City's billing system MUNIS that generates monthly billing data. The Aclara STAR Software was discontinued and not supported after June 30, 2022 thus requiring an upgrade to AclaraOne cloud-based software and this software is sold exclusively by Aclara.
On July 28, 2021, Aclara provided a proposal for installation of cloud-based AclaraOne software which includes professional services consisting of project management, coordination, AclaraOne software solution, product training and software acceptance and SaaS services for five years in an amo...
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