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Resolution to Approve a Purchase Order to Telvent USA for Fiber Optic Network (FON) Asset Management Software for ($41,520.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and action is a resolution authorizing the creation of a purchase order to Telvent USA in the amount of $41,520.00 for software and 1 year of software maintenance and support for FY2014.
The City of Ann Arbor has a complex fiber optic network (FON) and valuable conduit assets that require industry standard software designed to maintain critical outside plant (OSP) assets. Currently, conduit, FON assets and associated information, are held in various formats including: CAD drawings; as-built drawings; spreadsheets; word processing documents and sketches.
The City has created an industry standard geo-database of FON assets for use with GIS software but, it is by no means complete and/or sufficient to meet today’s challenges of operating and maintaining a large, highly complex FON environment.
Acquiring and implementing a GIS-centric FON asset management software specifically designed to manage telecommunications and fiber optic networks can provide appreciable process improvements and yield improved efficiency and effectiveness benefits well beyond current business practices.
Fully implemented FON asset management software will be used for day-to-day operations and management of all OSP assets, organizing daily work (e.g., work order fulfillment and outage management), managing leasable fiber optic conduit assets, as well as provisioning for new and/or modified FON circuits.
The FON software will also provide staff the ability to model “what-if” scenarios and determine least cost routing and FON optimization for scheduled and unscheduled outages and future FON expansion opportunities.
For these reasons, the City assembled a team consisting of City staff from Field Operations and Information Technology to create a business case and publish a request for proposal (RFP) to identify viable ...
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