Automatic Meter Installation (AMI) Project - 4915066

Site work for a water / sewer project in Choctaw, Oklahoma. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

Bids will be held by the City of Choctaw for a period not to exceed 60 days for the purpose of reviewing bids and investigating bidder's qualifications prior to awarding the contract. The City of Choctaw is looking to replace their residential 5/8" customer meters at this time. This project will include approximately 1,920 meters. This bid will consist of unit price per meter, antenna and any other apertures that may be needed. Include the cost of any programming software set up and maintenance, initial or yearly. Bids will be received for a single prime contract. Neither Owner nor Engineer will be responsible for full or partial sets of Bidding Documents, including Addenda if any, obtained from sources other than the Issuing Office. Bid security shall be furnished in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders and shall include a bid bond. Meters shall be guaranteed to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of at least five (5) years from the date of installation. The Altair shall be guaranteed for ten (10) years to be free from manufactured defects. Guarantee must be manufacturer's standard published guarantee. Meters shall be factory tested for accuracy. A factory test tag certifying the accuracy shall be provided for each meter. The factory test tag must include the meter serial number. Electronic registers shall store usage data in a minimum of five (5)-minute intervals (option of one (1)-minute intervals) with resolution down to one (1) magnetic turn of the measuring element of the meter. For residential meters the required consumption resolution for analytics, alarms, events and data log interval data must not exceed .02 gallons. Registers shall store five (5)-minute interval usage data for a minimum of one hundred and eleven (111) days internally for manual wireless extraction if necessary. During daily communications, register shall also perform any required two-way functions such as the backfill of missing interval data, accept reconfiguration commands and allow for periodic firmware boot loads. Reading and Interval Data shall be stored in Microsoft's Azure cloud storage administered by the manufacturer. Cloud data storage shall be maintained at a minimum of two (2) locations for redundancy. The manufacturer shall include a billing system interface that matches the existing billing system upload and download file layout at no cost to the City. Systems requiring customized billing system layouts that require changes to existing QS1 import and export files will not be acceptable. Cloud storage shall store high resolution, five (5)-minute interval usage data for a period of at least four (4) years. Historical data beyond four (4) years can be archived in the cloud storage if desired. Customer Service Accessibility The system must allow utility staff the ability to view all past rate of flow consumption graphically in time buckets not to exceed a minimum of five (5) minutes. System filters and email reports based on the minimum allowable five (5) minute analytics time interval shall be provided each morning automatically to alert staff to system issues for the previous twenty-four (24) hours. All stored interval data in the cloud must be actual consumption data as detected by the water meter. Systems that can't automatically backfill missing days or must calculate inferred usage for missing reading data will not be accepted. The system shall allow online collaboration between the utility and the water customer of identical data and screens to assist with dispute resolution.