TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
David N. Carmany, City Manager
FROM:
Vince Mastrosimone, Interim Director of Public Works
Raul Saenz, Utilities Manager
SUBJECT:Title
Professional Services Agreement with Control Automation Design, Inc. in the amount of $79,750 for Computer Programming Services for the Water Division's Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition System.
WAIVE FORMAL BIDDING, APPROVE
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council:
a) Waive formal bidding per Manhattan Beach Municipal Code 2.36.130 - Professional Services; and
b) Approve a Professional Services Agreement with Control Automation Design, Inc. in the amount of $79,750 to perform computer programming services necessary to upgrade the City's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system (SCADA).
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Funds are budgeted in the FY2013-2014 Public Works Department's Capital Improvement Project (CIP) budget as follows: Wastewater Fund in the amount of $122,700 and Water Fund in the amount of $338,200. Expenditures related to this Professional Services Agreement do not reflect the full budgeted cost for this Capital Improvement Project. Remaining funds will be used to cover installation of Ethernet/IP radios at the eighteen potable water, wastewater and stormwater facilities to transmit data from these sites to the two central Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system computers.
BACKGROUND:
The SCADA system operates on a centralized computer platform that monitors and controls the City's nine potable water, seven wastewater and two stormwater facilities through Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) located at each facility. The central computer monitors the Programmable Logic Controllers in real-time, and automatically sends commands that activate, modulate and deactivate equipment at each of the facilities, thus...
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