Council authorizes sole-source purchases for substation testing equipment
Nov 17, 2025
Beaches Energy asked for and won council approval to buy in-house diagnostic test equipment from Omicron, Dialo (as listed), and Doble to reduce outage durations, improve safety and trend condition data for long-lived transformer and breaker assets.
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Beaches Energy told the City Council it needs modern diagnostic test equipment to reduce outage times and protect multimillion-dollar transformers and breakers. The council approved a sole-source authorization to purchase equipment from Omicron, Dialo (transcript reference) and Doble after staff explained the operational and safety benefits.
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