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Committee approves Itron maintenance subscription and $2.64 million phase 2B meter conversion contract
Summary
The committee approved an Itron annual maintenance and hosting agreement for the city’s AMI network and authorized a $2,643,802.80 contract with United Systems Software for phase 2B of the automated meter conversion, covering roughly 26,000 small meters and continuing a multi‑phase installation.
The Tuscaloosa City Public Projects Committee approved two items related to the city’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) on an unspecified date: an annual maintenance, hosting and software subscription agreement with Itron, and a contract with United Systems Software (USS) to carry out phase 2B of the city’s water meter conversion.
Mister Bernie (city staff) described the Itron agreement as an annual subscription and maintenance package that covers hardware maintenance for the AMI communication network (radio towers, collectors and repeaters), hosting of AMI data on Itron‑certified servers and the software subscription for the Metro software interface. The contract amount was described in the meeting as…
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