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Approving Supplemental Agreement with EMA Inc., in Relation to the Asset Management/Maximo System Upgrade, Phase III
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The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (Water Authority) has successfully upgraded its Enterprise Asset Management System (Maximo) to Maximo v. 7.6, the most current release. Phase I & II initiatives included; A complete inventory of all operational assets so that work order history and all costs for those associated assets can be captured and used for improved future planning, implementation of workflows, standardized work order tracking, Preventative Maintenance program, procurement for Warehouse to achieve Full Life Cycle Accounting to improve capital and operational expenditures, and limited Conditional Monitoring. These improvements spanned business units within core Operations and Maintenance groups including Water Lines/Field Distribution, Groundwater, Surface Water Treatment Plant, Southside Reclamation plant, Collections, and the Warehouse.
The Water Authority's senior management staff is recommending additional funding to be allocated to initiate a Phase III of the project to further enhance the Water Utilities Asset Management Strategy and System. These enhancements will include; Process creation for asset onboarding and decommissioning to support the Utilities Asset Management Program, Risk based Asset Management Planning, CC&B/Maximo interface to manage water meters, additional conditional monitoring with SCADA, upgrade to v. 7.6.1 to leverage additional functions in the latest release of the software, and training.
EMA Inc. is the vendor that was selected via RFP P2015000005 to upgrade and enhance our usage of Maximo and build out the Water Utilities Asset Management plan. They have done an outstanding job leading us through the upgrade and Business Process Improvement initiatives, and to meet our goals for effective Asset Management
FISCAL IMPACT:
The total cost is for $1,380,097.00. The Water Authori...
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