Title
Approve Amendment No. 2 to the Professional Services Agreement with OneRain, Inc. to extend the terms of the Agreement through June 30, 2020; and authorize the General Manager to execute the Amendment.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board of Directors:
a. Approve Amendment No. 2 to the Professional Services Agreement with OneRain, Inc. to extend the terms of the Agreement through June 30, 2020; and
b. Authorize the General Manager to execute the Amendment.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
On September 19, 2016, the Board of Directors approved a professional services agreement with OneRain, Inc., in the amount of $142,177, to upgrade the central base stations, the radio repeaters, and the data concentrator of the Agency's flood warning system from Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time (ALERT) to ALERT2 technology.
Tasks completed to date for this project include the installation of the computer servers that will be used as the central base stations of the Agency's flood warning system and the purchase of the radio transmitters and the data concentrator that make up the backbone of the ALERT transmission network. Work currently being done is the final configuration of the central base stations that will allow the Agency to provide real time rainfall and streamflow information to the public.
The part of the project that has been delayed is the installation of the transmitters and the data concentrator. There have been a couple of significant reasons for this delay. The initial delay was primarily a result of a damaged bridge on Hwy 1 and landslides in the Big Sur area during the 2017-2018 winter that impeded practical access to two remote sites that are part of the backbone network of the ALERT network. The original agreement was amended to extend the terms of the amendment from December 31, 2017 to December 31, 2018 due to this delay.
The second significant delay of the transmitter and the data concen...
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