Fiscal Note
The 2017 Adopted Operating Budget includes $40,000 in the Water Utility budget for professional services expenditures. This appropriation supports a contract for software and database maintenance along with emergency assistance associated with the SCADA system. This system is utilized by the Water Utility to centrally monitor and record pump station operations including water pressure levels and machinery performance. The system also enables remote command of a station's operations during an emergency such as a fire.
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Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into a 5 year sole source agreement with L.W. Allen to provide professional services in updating, maintaining, and providing emergency services for Madison Water Utility’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.
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PREAMBLE:
Madison Water Utility uses a complex computer and motor control system that is monitored and controlled remotely in order to meet its mission of providing safe, reliable drinking water 24/7. Maintaining, updating, and resolving issues with this system in a timely manner is critical. This resolution allows Madison Water Utility to enter into a sole source agreement with L.W. Allen (including their subsidiary Altronex Control Systems), the only local provider who can provide all of the services needed, including emergency service, and has a high familiarity with all of Madison Water Utility’s sites.
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WHEREAS, Madison Water Utility has 36 remote sites that house groundwater supply wells, booster stations, reservoirs and elevated storage tanks and all of these sites are constantly monitored and controlled remotely utilizing a complex computer and motor control system (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition or SCADA); and
WHEREAS, the system operates over fiber optic lines and radios and allows a Waterworks Operator to monitor and control all of our sites 24 hours a day/seven days a week; and
WHEREAS, Madison Water Utility requires prof...
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