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To: Board of Directors
From: Ian Fitzgerald
Date: August 02, 2017
Subject: Consideration of a Contract for Professional Services with MilSoft
1. WHY THIS MATTER IS BEFORE THE BOARD
Board approval is required for expenditures in excess of $15,000.
2. HISTORY
The District is implementing the Electric AMI technology. After completion of phase
one of the AMI project, the AMI data will be integrated with NISC cloud -based MDM
application. One of the main advantages of the MDM application, is it will allow
District engineers to perform electrical load analysis on feeders and transformers.
In order to perform electrical modeling, it is required to integrate the GIS electric
network model with the NISC MDM. The NISC MDM software requires that this
integration be in a very specific format developed by the MilSoft corporation in
partnership with NISC.
3. NEW INFORMATION
An "off the shelf' integration tool to move District GIS data to the NISC MDM does not
exist. The District must contract with the MilSoft corporation to develop this integration
tool. The tool will be specific to the District's GIS model and NISC software
requirements.
Once developed, the integration tool can be
the GIS data to a format compatible with
District engineers to perform sophisticated
with the most current GIS data.
used periodically or on demand to convert
he NISC MDM software. This will allow
electrical load and transformer analyses
Due to the compatibility with this software, and the fact that only one company makes
the software for integration; a sole source justification is required (Attachment 1)
MilSoft's price for professional services to develop this integration tool for the District
is $35,000.
4. FISCAL IMPACT
The price quotation from MilSoft is $35,000, not including sales tax.
The planned funding source for this equipment is the Electric Department General Fund.
5. RECOMMENDATION
Authorize the General Manager to execute a professional services agreement with MilSoft
for customized migration software in an amount of $35,000 plus a 10% change order
allowance, for an amount not to exceed 38,500.00 plus sales tax.
Stephen Hollabaugh
Assistant General Manager
Michael D. Holley
General Manager