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RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES Board Memorandum BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES DATE: OCTOBER 25, 2021 SUBJECT: BID NO. 7861 FOR SIX 15KV AUTOMATIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT RECLOSERS WITH G&W ELECTRIC COMPANY, FOR $275,922.68 ISSUES: Consider awarding Bid No. 7861 to G&W Electric Company for six 15kV three-phase Pole Mounted Automatic Electronic Circuit Reclosers, in the amount of $275,922.68; and deem bid submitted by Anixter, Inc. as non-responsive. RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Board of Public Utilities: 1. Award Bid No. RPU-7861 to G&W Electric Company of Bolingbrook, Illinois, in the amount of $275,922.68, for six 15kV three-phase Pole Mounted Automatic Electronic Circuit Reclosers; 2. Deem bid submitted by Anixter, Inc. of Corona, California, in the amount of $182,195.75 as non-responsive; and 3. Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute any documents necessary to effectuate the procurement described herein, as well as the ability to make minor non- substantive changes in alignment with all purchasing policies. BACKGROUND: In 2014, Riverside Public Utilities (RPU) approved a Distribution Reliability Improvement Plan for electric distribution circuits. Implementing Distribution Automation (DA) has been outlined as a umber of customers impacted. RPU is incorporating new technology to help improve the overall electric system reliability, and part of the efforts to deliver reliable power to our customers, is to maintain healthy reliability indices. These indices include System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) and System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI). High numbers of these indices give a low rating to the RPU has experienced numerous circuit outages where the substation breaker trips, affecting the entire circuit. When this occurs, the SAIDI clock starts counting until the circuit is completely restored. In order to minimize the SAIDI index, these outages must be contained downstream