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AGENDA TITTLE: Approve specifications and authorize advertisement for bids for 384 watthour
meters (EUD)
MEET114S DATE: February 4, 2004
PREPARED BY: Electric Utility Director
REO'OMMENDED ACTION: That the City Council approve the specifications and authorize
advertisement for bids for the purchase of 384 solid-state watthour
meters.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The Electric Utility Department's Meter Division has requested that
384 solid-state watthour meters be purchased to provide an
inventory for installation of meters at new residential developments
throughout the city, as well as for replacement of obsolete and
deteriorated meters located during meter testing.
This bid consists of 192 meters with automatic meter reading (AMR) communications modules, and 192
meters without. AMR technology allows certain meters to be read remotely, and is particularly useful in
hard -to -read locations, such as residential back yards with locked gates. A pilot program initiated in
September, 2001 has worked well for both the customer and the meter reading staff. Therefore, the
Department plans to install a group of AMR meters annually and, over time, eliminate the problems
associated with hard -to -read meters. The non -AMR meters which are removed during the change -out
will be cleaned and re -calibrated, and placed back into service at another location within the city.
Standard packaging for residential meters is 96 units per pallet. The order quantity of a total of 384
meters will result in a delivery of four full pallets.
FUNDING: Electric Utility Department 2003-2005 Financial Plan and Budget,
Revenue Metering, Business Unit 161656, Page E-41
Estimated Cost: $21,000
BID OPEW4NG: February 18, 2004
Alan N Vallow, Electric Utility Director
Attachment: Specftations
Prepared by Joel Han* Purchasing Officer
cc: Manager, EUD Engineering and Operations
APPROVED:�_�
H. Dix6n Flynn,
WATTHOUR METERS
GENERAL
SPECIFICATIONS
Meters shall be solid state devices with electronic registers that alternate between segment test
and kWh consumption at a rate of approximately one change every six seconds. Display shall
indicate "kWh" when this value is shown. All meters shall have a glass cover. A label marked
"City of Lodi" and a sequential number shall be factory installed in addition to the following
information: meter form number, class, voltage, wire, type, Hz, test amps, Kh, and ERT serial
number if applicable.
Shipping boxes shall show on the outside the sequential number of the meter contained
therein.
FORM
2S
STANDARDS
All meters shall conform to the following standards or latest revision thereof: American
National Standards (ANSI) C12.1.
COMMUNICATION MODULE
AMR communication module shall be compatible with ITRON® standard consumption message
protocol (no wake-up tone required) and shall be non -field programmable.
REQUIREMENT:
192 Watthour meters per specification with communication modules;
sequential number beginning with 38145.
192 Watthour meters per specification without communication modules;
sequential number beginning with 38337.