AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Materials Management
DCM: Bryan Langley
AGENDA DATE October 9, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider recommending adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas providing for, authorizing, and approving three (3) year metering software and handheld hardware maintenance for continued vendor support and upgrades for the Meter Data Management System (MDMS) for Denton Municipal Electric Department, which is essential to ensure availability of upgrades, software fixes, and access to knowledge and support resources. Itron, Inc. is the sole-source vendor for continued upgrade, support and maintenance for Itron software and hardware. Therefore this system is available from only one source and in accordance with Texas Local Government Code 252.022, provides that procurement of commodities and services that are available from one source are exempt from competitive bidding; and if over $50,000 shall be awarded by the governing body; and providing an effective date (File 2770 awarded to Itron, Inc. in the three (3) year not-to-exceed amount of $222,755.97).
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RFP INFORMATION
The City of Denton Municipal Electric Metering Department uses the MDMS software to manage and store the meter data for billing AMI meters as well as interval data for reporting, analysis, and trending purposes. In addition, Denton Municipal Electric Department uses the Itron handheld devices and software metering system (MVRS and MV-90) on a daily basis to read and manage meters that are manually read such as water meters or for customers that opt out of the Electric Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meters. This also includes pulling data from ERCOT meters, and pulling data from large customer meter accounts such as Peterbilt. The Itron software and handheld hardware devices have been in place since the late 1990's and the MDMS has been utilized since 2010.
Three years of annual maintenance for the Itron product line is approximately $147,755.97 w...
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