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Council approves $148,777 purchase of survey equipment to speed mapping and design work
Summary
The council approved purchase of survey equipment from Frontier Precision for $148,777.81 to replace decade-old equipment; the package includes a total station with LiDAR scanner, survey-grade GPS base station, laser levels, software and training.
The Laramie City Council voted 9–0 on June 3 to award a purchase contract to Frontier Precision of Arvada, Colorado, for survey equipment totaling $148,777.81.
City staff said the existing survey instruments are more than a decade old and increasingly unusable; the replacement package includes a total station with a LiDAR scanner, a survey-grade GPS base station, two laser levels, software and training. The equipment will support in-house design, construction verification and mapping, and will be used for surface-water monitoring and other city projects.
Staff explained the LiDAR-equipped total station enables rapid collection of surface points at much finer granularity than prior aerial or manual surveys. “This is gonna collect a point every centimeter, essentially,” a staff member said, describing the increase in detail versus aerial collection.
The purchase includes a base station that will allow other city systems to obtain survey-grade accuracy across the city, improving mapping consistency for multiple departments. There was no public comment, and the roll-call vote was 9–0.
