AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Materials Management
ACM: Bryan Langley
AGENDA DATE: March 7, 2017
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the City Manager or his designee to execute a contract for the acquisition and installation of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) hardware and software system for Denton Municipal Electric (DME) Denton Energy Center (DEC) which is available from only one source and in accordance with Chapter 252.022 of the Texas Local Government Code, such purchases are exempt from requirements of competitive bidding; and providing an effective date (File 4074-awarded to Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) in the not-to-exceed amount of $446,331.80). The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (7-0).
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FILE INFORMATION
Denton Municipal Electric (DME) will use the Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to monitor and control 12 engines at the Denton Energy Center (DEC). The OSI SCADA system will provide real-time system information to DME Energy Management Organization's Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE), Plant Operations and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
DME currently uses the OSI Generation Short-term Load Forecast system and the OSI Market Operations system to participate in the ERCOT regional market. DME utilizes the OSI system to meet State and Federal regulatory requirements for electric generation system operation and reliability.
This OSI SCADA proposal includes hardware and software for DME's Primary and Backup operations for Energy Management Organization's QSE function, Plant Operations, a Quality Assurance System (test environment), and a Program Development System. The Quality Assurance system will provide the ability to fully document and test software updates before applying the updates to any production systems removing the risk to redundancy in the production sy...
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