Agenda Item: 15(b)
Prepared By: Jeffrey E. Poteet, General Manager
Business: City Council Item
Department: Water and Sewer
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Award of Contract to Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI), to Implement Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Lead and Copper Service Line Survey in the Amount of $11,582,180.00 - Jeffrey E. Poteet, General Manager, Water & Sewer Department
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Marco Island's Water & Sewer Department manages approximately 11,500 water meters across the community. Many of these meters are aging mechanical units (many over a decade old) that gradually lose accuracy. This decline in meter precision (16%) has led to a revenue loss in 2024 due to under-registration of water usage. While the City has historically funded an annual meter replacement program, the scale of losses and aging infrastructure now demand a more comprehensive, robust, and long-term solution. Compounding this need with the Environmental Protection Agency's Lead and Copper Rule Revision (LCRR), which mandates every water utility to conduct a field verification to document the material of each service line (both on the utility side and customer side of the meter) that was listed as "unknown" on the initial inventory. On Marco Island, roughly 4,900 service lines are currently listed as "material unknown," meaning thousands of connections need inspection and documentation to meet compliance. These two drivers - revenue loss from old meters and new federal requirements for lead service line surveys - provide the ideal context for the City to move forward with state-of-the-art technology within a single project.
In April 2024, the City entered into a project development agreement with Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI), a nationally recognized energy service company, to evaluate the feasibility of implementing Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) citywide. This agreement was facilitated through piggybacking off of a competitively bid contract through Equalis G...
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