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Approving Agreement with LABVANTAGE Solutions Inc. for LABVANTAGE Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
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The Water Authority Compliance Division (Compliance Division) generates and manages large amounts of environmental data. Within the Compliance Division, the Water Quality Laboratory (WQL) and Water Process Laboratory (WPL) reports more than 2,000 laboratory results and quality control data points. In addition, the Water Quality and NPDES program areas generate an additional several hundred data points of field parameters weekly for the Water Authority's water and wastewater systems. It is a challenge to manage all of these data in a manner that supports efficacious operations in the laboratory, the field, and the office. For the last decade, the WQL has used a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) called SQL*LIMS for data management. However, the functionality of the system has been limited to sample login and manual reporting of final results. Data generated by the WPL and field measurements (aka Remote Labs) are manually recorded, with much of the data maintained in spreadsheets. SQL*LIMS runs on Windows XP, which is no longer being supported.
The Compliance Division is recommending a new LIMS called LABVANTAGE for the management of data generated and used by the laboratory, Water Quality and NPDES compliance programs. As part of the LABVANTAGE system implementation project, the legacy data from the current LIMS will be archived and made available through the existing Data Repository.
This agreement will be using a GSA Schedule 70 contract number: GS-35F-0139U as the basis for the contract and prices which are equal to or less than the GSA price schedule.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The LABVANTAGE agreement will cost approximately $363,656.75. The Authority currently owns the LABVANTAGE software, and this agreement will cover the cost to upgrade, implement and provide post implementation training and support. The implementation and post implementation support will be funded from CIP. Funding for this project has been appropriated to cover this agreement.