Metering Infrastructure Equipment and Meters

Notice is hereby given that the City of Cartersville, Georgia is requesting proposals for Advanced Metering Infrastructure Equipment, Meters, and Software to complete a meter change out program. The City of Cartersville, GA supplies electricity, natural gas, and potable water throughout the City and parts of Bartow and Floyd Counties for approximately 29,685 residential, commercial, and industrial customer sites. Of these meters, ~70% are read manually via handheld, ~25% are read via drive by capable ERT’s and ~5% are strictly manual reads. The Advanced Metering Program is inclusive of the advanced metering infrastructure equipment, meters, and software, but also reflects the City’s desire to introduce Outage Management System functionality and a customer-facing, web portal. Vendors are welcome to respond to any single or combination of component(s) of the City’s request, however Vendors may only submit one Proposal. Vendors must provide firm pricing for the equipment, services, and

deliverables included in their Proposal to this RFP. This includes, but is not limited to the: - Total cost of purchasing AMI including electric meters, water and gas devices, communication equipment, head end software and hardware, and any optional components that may help the City attain its goals. - Ongoing costs of ownership. - More complete understanding of the skills required to utilize the AMI system on an ongoing basis. - The level of effort an cost to train City personnel on all aspects of the system and component. Proposals will be accepted until 10:00 A.M. local time on March 3, 2020. Proposals received after this time will be returned unopened. All correspondence regarding the Request for Proposals shall be directed via email to: Dan Porta, Assistant City Manager - document.write('dporta'+'@'+'cityofcartersville.org')dporta@cityofcartersville.org For security reasons, you must enable JavaScript to view this E-mail address.. Please see the attached bid documents for additional information and forms. Attachment A - External Data Custodian Agreement added on 1/23/2020 Addendum added 1/31/2020 - Proposals will be accepted until 10:00 A.M. local time on March 3, 2020