Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Director of Columbus Water & Power to enter into contract with Trimble Inc. for services regarding the Trimble Unity Asset Management System. The contract amount being authorized by this ordinance is $1,014,322.21.
The Trimble Unity Asset Management System (AMS) is a cloud-based, Geographic Information System (GIS)-centric enterprise AMS that will help Columbus Water & Power (CWP) maintain its complex infrastructure and equipment by enhancing efficiency and optimizing asset operation and maintenance. This AMS will assist CWP with better decision-making regarding asset rehabilitation and asset replacement, ensuring regulatory compliance, and will facilitate reliable and sustainable service delivery. The former Cityworks AMS, under Azteca Systems Holdings LLC (Azteca), previously utilized by CWP was a traditional on-premises system vs the new cloud-based system. While contracting with Azteca for the Cityworks AMS, Trimble Inc acquired Azteca, though CWPs contract continued to be with Azteca.
The AMS contract is an annual Enterprise licensing agreement that includes cloud-hosting services. The Trimble Unity solution modernizes our Work and Asset Management program by enabling best practices and GIS to empower CWP to better track, maintain, and manage assets across our entire organization. Trimble Unity provides three hosting environments, which include one each for testing, production, and development. CWP currently has 1,150 licenses but with the system switch CWP will be granted unlimited licenses. Additionally, the Division of Fire has 282 licenses funded by CWP and uses these licenses in collaboration with the Division of Water to support the maintenance and inspection process for Fire Hydrants across the City.
Due to a Request for Proposal, RFQ018791, that was published for CWP to obtain an Asset Management System, Woolpert, Inc. was the awarded firm and the software solution they chose in the proposal was ...
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