County approves five-year ThunderCAT EAM subscription to consolidate maintenance systems

Sep 22, 2026

Winnebago County authorized a $47,109 five-year cloud subscription for ThunderCAT Technology's EAM platform to replace two legacy maintenance systems; the director said modest efficiency gains could offset the subscription over time.

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The facilities director, Mike, presented a plan to replace the county's two maintenance systems (MP2 and an FM system) with a single cloud-based ThunderCAT Technology EAM platform and asked the committee to approve a five-year subscription priced at $47,109. "This is a cloud based system... we have, like, $4,000 a year subscription fee for the software that we use now. This 1 takes the 2 systems that we had, m p 2 and FM systems, merges them into 1," he said.

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