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CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. RFP-1213-47, CONTRACT NO. K-1213-133 WITH ALLIANCE ELECTRIC SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF $195,966, PERFORMANCE BOND NO. B-1213-57, AND RESOLUTION NO. R-1213-87 FOR THE BUILDING C GENERATOR/UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY (UPS) UPGRADE PROJECT.
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BACKGROUND: The fiscal year 2012-2013 (FYE 2013) budget approved by the City Council in June of 2012 included $200,000 for a new emergency generator for Building C in the Municipal Complex at 201 West Gray Street and a new uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for the computer room in Building C. We currently have an emergency generator that only has enough capacity to support the current power requirements in the computer room in Building C. The limited capacity of the current emergency generator cannot support any additional hardware in the computer room and does not address the need for our computer systems to serve the citizens and City employees during an extended utility power outage. The existing UPS located in the computer room does not have enough capacity to support the new hardware that is needed for the Public Safety CAD/RMS project or any other future hardware expansion. The new generator will have enough capacity to serve all of Building C, and public services will be maintained during power outages. The new computer room UPS will address our immediate hardware growth limitations as well as the future growth needs for several years.
DESCRIPTION: RFP number 1213-47 was sent to twelve qualified emergency generator and UPS vendors, as listed in the attached vendor list.
We received responses from Eaton Corporation and Alliance Electric Services for the entire project which includes the new Building C generator, new Computer Room UPS, and relocation of the existing generator and computer room UPS. One response for just the Computer Room UPS portion of the project was submitted by Batteries Plus, but did not include any installation services. Those responses are sum...
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