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City °J Arts &Innovation <br />City Council Memorandum <br />IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL <br />FROM: FINANCE DEPARTMENT <br />DATE: NOVEMBER 16, 2021 <br />WARDS: ALL <br />SUBJECT: AWARD BID NO. 7861 FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF SIX (6) 15KV <br />AUTOMATIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT RECLOSERS WITH G&W ELECTRIC <br />COMPANY OF BOLINGBROOK, IL IN THE AMOUNT OF $275,922.68. <br />ISSUES: <br />Award Bid No. 7861 for the procurement of six (6) 15Kv Automatic Electronic Circuit Reclosers <br />with G&W Electric Company of Bolingbrook, II. in the amount of $275,922.68. <br />RECOMMENDATIONS: <br />That the City Council: <br />1. Award Bid No. 7861 to G&W Electric Company of Bolingbrook, Illinois in the amount of <br />$275,922.68 for the Procurement of six (6) 15Kv Automatic Electronic Circuit Reclosers; <br />2. Authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to execute all necessary documents, <br />including making minor and non -substantive changes. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />In 2014, Riverside Public Utilities (RPU) approved a Distribution Reliability Improvement Plan <br />for electric distribution circuits. Implementing Distribution Automation (DA) has been outlined as <br />a critical component for reducing outages' duration and the number of customers impacted. RPU <br />is incorporating new technology to help improve the overall electric system reliability, and part <br />of the efforts to deliver reliable power to our customers is to maintain healthy reliability indices. <br />These indices include System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) and System Average <br />Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI). High numbers of these indices give a low rating to the <br />utility's reliability. <br />RPU has experienced numerous circuit outages where the substation breaker trips, affecting the <br />entire circuit. When this occurs, the SAIDI clock starts counting until the circuit is completely <br />restored. In order to minimize the SAIDI index, these outages must be contained downstream <br />from the substation breaker. This can be achieved by installing electronic reclosers in our <br />electric system. <br />Circuit reclosers are automatic high-voltage electric switches. These devices are similar to <br />household circuit breakers since they shut off power to the loads when trouble is present in the <br />