This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Wellington, Ohio. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

The Village of Wellington is requesting the submission of proposals from qualified firms to provide an Advanced Metering Infrastructure System (AMI) for both electric and water customers to replace our current manual read single and poly-phase electric meters, and manual read water meters, which includes selected areas of AMR meters; Future controlling capacitor banks, water heater load control, and other Smart Grid solutions to meet the utility's long-term automation requirements including reliability, resiliency, redundancy, bandwidth, and cost. The proposal should include all hardware, software and services for system design, integration & testing, installation, financing options, training, warranty and maintenance, documentation and all associated equipment required to provide a fully functional AMI System as described in this Request for Proposal. The system should support near-real-time data exchange between the AMI systems. The Village of Wellington seeks to improve customer service and reduce long-term costs by implementing improved metering accuracy, increase efficiency in meter reading, and improve customer service, mitigating peak system demand and reduce long-term operating costs by implementing an AMI solution that provides electric and water meter reads. It should interface with our current billing software and offer on-request reads, have the option to offer remote disconnects and other functions. This Request for Proposal does not commit The Village of Wellington to pay for any costs incurred in the preparation or submission of any proposal or to contract for any services. The Village may, in its sole and absolute discretion, award a contract to the responsible vendor submitting the lowest and best proposal that complies with the requirements stated in this Request for Proposal.The lowest priced proposal may not necessarily be the one selected. The Village of Wellington may, in its sole and absolute discretion, reject any or all proposals received or waive minor defects, irregularities, or informalities All questions concerning this RFP must be submitted to The Village of Wellington via e-mail no later than Friday, July 21st by 2:00 pm EDT. Technical questions or requests for clarification relative to this Request for Proposal must be directed to Electric Superintendent, Dave Bealer, or to Water Superintendent, Jon Love, with a subject line heading The Village of Wellington AMI Project and e-mailed to dbealer@villageofwellington.com or to jlove@villageofwellington.com. For all other questions, remit to the Electric Department Administrative Assistant, Barb Murray, at bmurray@villageofwellington.com. Responses to all questions will be compiled into one document and emailed to all bidders. Packages or envelopes containing your proposal must be clearly marked on the outside as "Sealed Proposal for the Purchase of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) System". If delivered by courier, deliver to: The Village of Wellington, Council Clerk Attn. Christa O'Brien 115 Willard Memorial Square Wellington, OH 44090 No pre-bid conference will be conducted. The proposal shall be considered current and a valid offer to undertake the work, subject to successful negotiation of a contract, for a period of at least one hundred-twenty (120) days from August 30th, 2023 and shall contain a statement in the proposal to this effect.