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Alright. Today is Thursday, May 19. It's 11:37AM.
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Brian O'Donnell from John Davis. Please stand state
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your name for the record. Mack and Malone,
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procurement coordinator. Kim Sharp, GIS manager. Adam Stafford,
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IT applications manager. Doron Spence, public works coordinator.
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Beatrice Alvarez, Assistant Public Works Director. Jeff Polin,
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Partnership, Creation and Cultural Letters Department Director. Thank
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you. We are here for ITN number RM2217.
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This is titled New Enterprise Asset Management System,
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EAM Work Order System. We're here for the
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review committee for, it's, I'm gonna go over
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where we've been and where we've gone. So
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a couple of things, Really quickly, we have
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several representatives online. They're here today to observe
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only. There is no input from the review
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committee. If we choose later on to do
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presentations or anything of that nature, we'll schedule
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those appropriately and handle those through that process.
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But today, we're here to observe, so thank
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you for your attendance. You're both welcome to
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be here or via via Webex. So turning
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my attention back to the reviews meeting, the
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four people, Tim Shar, Adam Stafford, Ron, Spence,
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Beatrice Alvarez, and Jeff Pullman are five members
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of this review community, myself and Becca are
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facilitators of this process. So we are not
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voting just so everybody understands that, we'll be
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making the decision with Sam. We'll be guiding
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you through this process. Any questions up to
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this point as far as where we're at?
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Yep. So I've been on other review committees
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and I guess this has never been part
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of the ones I've been in. But for
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this particular, one, as I went through everything,
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I felt that the presentation part to me
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is very important. And I don't know if,
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and this was just a question that I
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didn't want to ask since, you know, there
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was the, you know, can't talk about it.
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Do we need to shortlist today without the
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presentation? That's part of the timeline. Okay. That
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was my only question. Yeah. As far as
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process or any interview. Yeah. So I'm gonna
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go through the just kind of where we've
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been and then where we're going. So this
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one's available on Monday, December 20. It was
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a mandatory for the post meeting on January
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10 at 2PM. The responses were two back.
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03/15/2022 at 2PM. And at that time, we
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took responses from the following, IPS Energy USA
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Incorporated, PaintStar, Mass Group Incorporated, PSD, Citywide Incorporated,
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Smart Energy Water, SeaLink Incorporated, and Seafro Solutions.
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So we went through an administer after that.
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Subsequent to that, we went through an administrative
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review process, and it was determined that there
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were three companies that were, deemed disqualified due
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to the fact that they were not they
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did not provide, all the required information, so
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they were not responsive to our documents. So
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at that point, we disqualified them and that
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was IPS Energy USA, PSD Citywide Incorporated and
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Safe Grove Solutions. So what that left you
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with was Mainstar, manufacturing automated systems, DVA mass
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group, smart energy systems, DVA smart energy water,
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and SeedLink Incorporated. So those are the four
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that you'll be reviewing today or you'll have
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any discussions on. So subsequent also you should
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have received each one of the review committee
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members that should have received all of these
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responses that we have for you to review.
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You should have done your homework, actually went
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probably through a class with Rebecca just going
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through on just a refresher on the review
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committee process. So today we're here to have
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that review committee and go through discussion. So
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if you turn your attention to the administrative
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review document, it's a very small frame, there's
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a lot of information here, but if you
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can, please check your attention here. And, going
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through the checklist, looking at everything, I don't
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see anything outside of the norm on the
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process. Is there anything else, Rebecca, that you
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needed to add to this or any comments
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from you as a review committee based on
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this? No. Okay. So look at the next
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document we have in front of us here.
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This is your score sheet. So we're gonna
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get to your point, Beatrice, where you're at,
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where we're going with this. So this was
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done as an ITN. You may be familiar
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with RFPs and other, solicitations that we do
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RFPs, RFQs. This is an invitation and negotiation.
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There is a little bit different element with
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this one. Okay, so there's a difference between
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how we negotiate with and how we negotiate.
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Okay, but as far as ranking, we will
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do the process. We'll go through the scoring
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using the best value scoring that we use.
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But what we'll be doing is evaluating these
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firms based on the firm's qualification, qualifications of
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the firm and key staff, stability of key
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staff, project experience and past performance, best overall
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approaches to show the services, client references plus
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previous experiences with governmental agencies, experience and technical
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capabilities, current recent project projected workload, firms demonstrate
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firm demonstrates consistency in meeting project time and
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budget strengths, demonstrates minimization of change orders and
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amendments and local preference. So these are the
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evaluation criteria you're looking at to determine who
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is the top ranked. And that being designated,
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we do, like I said, a best value.
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You don't use a hundred point scale. We
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rank the number one being the best rank.
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They're your favorite. They're the top. They're the
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best overall solution. You think of them. They're
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the top ranked in second, third, and fourth.
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So you have four. So you'll have one,
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two, three, and four. There's no two ones,
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there's no two twos, there's no two threes,
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and there's no decimals or anything like that.
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So it's either one, two, three, or four.
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That's how you're going to score them in
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regards to putting down that scoring process. Everybody
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clear on that? Yep. Okay. Thank you. Alright.
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We'll be in the process. Again, this is
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you're gonna have this open discussion, and I'm
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gonna ask, you know, since public works is
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the lead on this, that you'll be probably
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starting to opening dialogue. Sure. But before we
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start that, there's a couple of things that
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are at your disposal. Today is the first
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part of this could be you could be
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reviewing these and having this discussion and there's
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someone that just stands out and says this
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is basically from what we've read they can
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do everything we want we see it we're
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good we want to move on collectively making
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that determination. Or there could be further discussions,
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do we have enough information, do we need
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something? So we have four companies here, if
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you wanted to shortlist and bring back for
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presentations, three of the four, two of the
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four, whatever. That's up to you as the
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review committee has when you go, but we'll
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do a scoring and then we'll look at
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this and see who are we going to
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bring back for presentations if we need any
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presentations. But that's out here in this world.
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We can also, if you feel that you
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don't need a full presentation, but you need
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answers, what we'll do is send out questions
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to the firms, getting their responses and we'll
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reconvene as a review committee to review those.
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And then after the review of those, you
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may be able to make a decision. But
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that's just a step that's available to you
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instead of doing a full blown presentation. But
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again, these are at your disposal for making
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that determination on who is the top rank.
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Any questions on that? No. Okay. So, again,
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we'll get to once we get to the
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point where we're looking at who we want
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to negotiate with, differences with this is you
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can take two or three to negotiate with
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on instead of just having a we can
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go either simultaneous negotiation or we can do
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it basically sequential, but those are the two
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methods that we can choose and we can
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choose that when we want to make our
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recommendation choose negotiate with the top rank and
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if unsuccessful, we can go to the second
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ranked and then we can go to the
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third. Or we can actually pick top two
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and then we can begin negotiations with both.
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If you'd want to go to that, then
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there's basically what we would have is go
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through the negotiations and whoever that negotiation committee
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would be to make the determination is who
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is going to be recommended. Typically, there's either
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a VAPO or there's an adjustment or basically
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negotiations are failing with one and they're basically
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having good negotiations with the second. The negotiation
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part is a little bit different, but you
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can actually negotiate with two firms instead of
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just doing it sequentially like we do as
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an RFP. This is the beauty of an
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ITN. It allows especially in the technology range.
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This is where it was developed from, so
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it it it's a good fit for us.
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But, again, you can choose, and, again, it
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depends on how your discussion is going. What
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you've seen or what you've read will guide
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you to this process of where we wanna
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go. So with that, I'm gonna be quiet
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now, and I know you're all thankful. Gonna
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turn it over to you. Sure. You begin
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your dialogue. What I also urge you, a
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couple of things. I know you went through
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the class, but speak the names of the
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companies of who you're talking about. Be clear
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on that when you're discussing these so that,
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you know, they're not just people guessing at
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what you're saying as far as that goes.
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If there's anything, questions, you can ask us
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seizure wise or you can discuss them off
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yourself, but I just want to make sure
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that you're not going, I'll let these firms
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be clear on those so that everybody understands.
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Okay? Thank you, Anna. I'll turn it over
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to you. All right. Thank you, guys, for
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coming today, all of the vendors as well.
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So what I wanted to do is go
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directly into the scope, section 5.2, and just
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what I was able to do and what
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I would like us to discuss more so
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is the exact bullet points of what we
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expected versus on what they presented and how
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well it matched with what our desired needs
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are for this particular work order EAM. So
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some of the things that I did was
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make some notes so maybe we can dialogue
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at each bullet point. So I'll just kind
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of start the dialogue and we can, I
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guess, address each company per bullet and just
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discuss how we feel about that particular bullet
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and our needs for that particular item? So
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the first one is a multi user interface
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with message chat capabilities. All right. So we
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can start with the first company here, MainStar.
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My notes have that I'm not sure how
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seamless and user friendly this particular feature is.
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They do support multi user interface. I believe
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they stated something like supporting in system messaging.
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This allows a full history of communications by
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party and time date. But I'm not sure
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within a mobile app if it's as user
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friendly. So again, that would be something my
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recommendation to see during a possible presentation during
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that. So you guys have any comments on
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that first one for Main Star? From what
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I recall, I think, I think the, the
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same thing that you were saying about the
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chat not being as user friendly, and I
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think there was maybe an upcharge for it
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being instant. So it was I think there
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was the two options, but it was just
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a different Additional charge. Anybody else for MainStar
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regarding multi user interface with message or chat
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capabilities? So moving on to the next company,
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that would be MAS Group, the Manufacturing Automation
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and Software Systems. They do not mention a
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chat capability or multi user interface. Okay. Moving
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on to smart energy systems. They seem to
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have a pretty comprehensive chat capability. They provide
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admin staff, including authorized parties such as the
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editor, facilitator, etc, with the ability to communicate
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directly within their trademark system, which I thought
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was a great feature. Did anybody else have
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any comments or see that as well? I
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agree with you on that. We can go
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bold by bold or if we just wanted
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to talk about it as a whole. I
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think that might be easier for some dialogue,
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just me personally, but I'll defer to you
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as the lead. I mean, you have something
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particular, especially in regards to this company, since
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we are talking about Smart Energy, I don't
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mind diverging if you'd like to communicate about
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it. Things that you saw that you were
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either impressed with that you felt would meet
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our needs. I have I mean, I felt
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like their submittal was something very user friendly.
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I agree. And so even the way that
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they did their submittal is something that I
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would want to see on my app. It
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was just very easy to read. It was,
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I could see field staff really understanding how
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to, utilize this because everything was with flow
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charts and everything was very, again, user friendly.
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So screenshots were very clear. Yes. On how
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the program actually worked. It wasn't as general
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as maybe some of the other, main star,
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their proposal was, well written, but it wasn't
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as detailed when it came to actually seeing
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how the program worked. And so in that
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case, you know, I would need to see
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more of a presentation to understand Smart Energy
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Systems kind of explained it very well in
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their proposal. Okay. You did unmute Adam. So
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now with balancing that out with bringing in
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an oncoming presentation, potentially. Are we articulating that
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we would like to see more details in
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these presentations because their actual documentation did not
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provide that clarity? Or are they being excluded
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because they did not upfront provide enough of
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that? And it's just too vague. I don't
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believe all of our the people who presented,
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I don't personally think that we need a
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presentation from all of them. I do personally
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think possibly two for sure, but maybe even
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three. But I believe one company didn't for
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me. But again, we can talk about that.
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Because they have different benefits, bells and whistles.
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You know what I mean? I think if
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I can't, let me personally think the presentation
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is really important for this type of that
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we're asking because I think it's important for
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us to touch, touch, feel, see it so
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that we know especially for Right. Field reporting
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and and the staff and usability and to
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see it on the smart energy systems since
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we're on that. Didn't like that they were,
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GIS centric, which was a big component of
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this, especially from the IT and internal reporting.
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When you say they, who are you referring
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to? Smart Energy Systems. Okay, because MainSTAR also
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is very GIS incorporated and so is Z
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Link. However, for me, Z Link was I'm
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sorry to interject, but I just wanted to
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comment. I feel like they're more project manager
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focused. They had CAD drawings and it was
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just a little bit very high detail. So
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for our user staff who's going to use
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it, I don't think that would be effective.
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Even though they're extremely GIS integrated, even with
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CAD drawings and probably pin or droplicate. I
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have a question that really was even connected
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to That's what I'm saying. Perhaps not really
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data. Right. And that might incur some additional
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questions when it comes to the fact that
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more technical data delivery requires more work. So
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depending on what this ITN is actually budgeted
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for, how much uplift the organization has. I
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don't think Z Link even they're not really
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providing what we're looking for. For me, I
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have literally a slew of things that just
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doesn't support what we're looking for. From mobile
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navigation to unique numbering in our work order,
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like very specific things that we need and
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want. They didn't even mention them, so I
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don't really even want to see a presentation.
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That's why was saying possibly if we do
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see a presentation, I definitely would love to
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see it from Smart Energy Main Star and
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Mass Group. But I would like to talk
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about the things that they did not have
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just so that we could vocally have that
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here recorded. When we move into presentation, we
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can kind of revisit that and see if
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those are the needs that are met. I've
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been here for a second. Let me make
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a suggestion. You guys kind of jump it
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around a little bit. Do you want to
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just do a roll down the line of
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an overall overall overall? That way you guys
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can kind of go back on that so
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that way you know, one of you have
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that period to talk about what thought you'd
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like or not like throwing out there as
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a suggestion that way, you know, give an
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overview and then you you can dialogue a
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little bit more. Jeff, do you want to
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start with Mainstar and then we can all
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go from there? Sure. Mainstar, you know, excuse
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me, I appreciate it. Biggest thing that stood
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out to me with Mainstar and I think
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it meets the needs, think it does, but
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the cost. And other cost is a factor
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and it was the highest budget and way
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over budget. Obviously, with the invitation and negotiate,
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from a presentation standpoint, then we do have
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the right to maybe pick and choose what
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we actually need because they had a lot
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of bells and whistles, they had a lot
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of add on features. It was great, it
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seemed like a very robust system to me,
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but I don't know if it's more than
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what we're looking for and some of those
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things can be scaled down. You know, looking
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at a broader scale too, they did have
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a fleet management module as well, which, you
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know, from a town wide standpoint, that may
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be something We can grow too. Yeah. That
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the town as a whole would like to
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incorporate. I wasn't totally sure on the iPad
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or tablet interface, and I was impressed on
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page 90, but I would have some questions
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questions for them on what the info reporting
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and what it actually looked like. I thought
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the citizen portal was a nice touch too.
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I know that wasn't something that was necessarily
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outlined in the bid, but I did think
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that that was a nice feature, especially for
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a work order system that citizens could and
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then it linked directly into the system. I
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guess from a IT standpoint and maybe Adam
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might be able to address this, but I
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know all of them were cloud based systems.
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I didn't know if there was a platform
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preferred. I think two of them use an
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Amazon web based whereas the others were like
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SAS. I don't know if maybe you can
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touch on that Adam while we get to
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it, but I did think too from their
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their client references and things. They did seem
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to have some, you know, obviously municipal experience
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where I think, you know, it translates to
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what we were looking at. Those are just
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kind some some general things but like we've
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talked about too, I think presentations on a
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shortlist of these companies based on how the
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committee votes, I think is going to be
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very valuable as we go through it because
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we can only get so much off the
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documents submitted and I think it's very important
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to be able to touch, feel, and see
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it. So those are my kind of brief
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summary notes on a question. How do you
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feel about Mass Group, the next company? We
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want to have one Just one at a
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time? Okay. I agree with well, your go,
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Beatrice, sorry. I agree with everything Jeff said.
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They were the most, I mean, support everything
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that we asked for and much more. So
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there wasn't any really point other than the
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one question about the chat that can easily
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be asked. And they did have the most
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amount of, like municipalities and government related type
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cities. Again, I just think I didn't understand
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too much exactly how the program works because
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it we didn't get like the snapshots and
[22:09]
stuff. So the presentation for this particular company
[22:12]
will be very important. I agree with both
[22:17]
of them. Paul? In regards to Jess points,
[22:26]
so SaaS is just software as a solution
[22:29]
where we're buying a package deal Off the
[22:33]
shelf. Off the shelf. It's provided as a
[22:37]
all in one inclusive kinda, you know, product.
[22:42]
And as for hosting environments, you know, for
[22:48]
the content or what is available that will
[22:52]
be provided or put into these systems, They're
[22:55]
not sensitive data. They're not criminal justice or
[22:58]
PAPI. So those can be housed in almost
[23:02]
any, you know, environment, whether it's Azure, AWS,
[23:06]
Google Cloud, or, you know, whether it's a
[23:09]
gov side or public side. So we don't
[23:12]
have a strong feeling towards either one, as
[23:15]
long as we're not putting any kind of
[23:18]
sensitive data or information in those places. The
[23:24]
one thing that comes back with a lot
[23:26]
of these things is just going to be,
[23:29]
you know, which I'll defer to Tim on
[23:31]
the GIS integration. What's the level of GIS
[23:34]
integration? And seeing a demo of it really
[23:37]
kind of lets you know whether or not
[23:39]
are we using your resemblance of GIS data,
[23:45]
or are you using our actual inventory of
[23:47]
GIS data? So consuming, utilizing, and things like
[23:50]
that, slightly different and demos really play a
[23:54]
hard factor in that. I think using our
[23:57]
GIS data is very important for this application.
[24:01]
And moving forward, because we want to make
[24:03]
sure that we're not creating these silos of
[24:08]
data in every single SaaS or third party
[24:11]
product that we use, where we're trying to
[24:13]
really push forward with the mindset of, here's
[24:19]
our inventory of what we have that we
[24:22]
wanna utilize with all of our products. We
[24:24]
don't wanna have, you know, a third party
[24:27]
copy that we have to maintain, update, and
[24:29]
kinda manage. So that's where we we're updating
[24:31]
it twice because we're updating our end and
[24:33]
then we update it. Right. So we're we're
[24:36]
we're streamlining all of that, and that's our
[24:38]
future focus. But From what you saw in
[24:41]
do all four of them I know maybe
[24:43]
that can be worked out in presentations or
[24:45]
additional questions, but I just I don't talk
[24:47]
the the IP language. It was it was
[24:50]
hard to determine. It was hard to determine
[24:52]
if if if what where they were with.
[24:55]
Is it copied? Is it Google? Or is
[24:58]
it, you know, like a lot of people
[25:01]
will refer, you know, a lot of software
[25:03]
products will defer to, you know, mapping services
[25:08]
that are out there, you know, whether it's
[25:10]
Bing or Google to, you know, use their
[25:12]
service, but it doesn't mean that it is
[25:15]
our mapping inventory and services and what we
[25:18]
have. It's somebody else's version of our facts.
[25:23]
And so that's where it's hard to tell
[25:26]
exactly what they're utilizing. I appreciate that. Because
[25:29]
we can't talk about it prior, that was
[25:31]
a question that I had. Just wasn't clear
[25:35]
on how that would look. For the GIS
[25:38]
integration in particular, speaking into specific terms of
[25:41]
integration, not some kind of interface that's been
[25:44]
made back and forth, there were only two
[25:46]
that were cleared for GIS integration. Those being
[25:50]
Pinkstar as far as the other one. The
[25:54]
others offered some different things, some of which
[25:57]
is that I'm saying wasn't necessarily very clear.
[26:01]
They seem to have some other focus that
[26:02]
maybe now overlapped with existing prod products like
[26:05]
the project ops. Right. Need to really move
[26:10]
into that realm, I don't think. And another
[26:13]
one, mass group seem to offer more of
[26:16]
a custom interface development. Mhmm. That's fine. Really
[26:20]
seems like needed Mhmm. Data back and forth
[26:23]
with that one. The other two were clear.
[26:26]
They're built in through integrations Mhmm. From the
[26:32]
BI standpoint then. So we should enterprise asset
[26:35]
management as a whole consists of many components,
[26:38]
one of which is an asset registry, Our
[26:40]
intent for different things that can be geographically
[26:43]
located is GIS is that asset registry. We're
[26:48]
talking something like a storm water features, different
[26:50]
roads, perhaps in the future street furniture. We
[26:54]
can get into different assets of the parks.
[26:56]
That really that serves that asset registry piece.
[27:00]
And to the extent possible, as you're you
[27:03]
don't really wanna replicate that. Find yourselves having
[27:06]
to try to keep that in sync and
[27:08]
contain it separately. So yeah. Definitely. Moving on
[27:14]
to the next company specifically, Jeff, do you
[27:16]
want to talk about the MAS Group and
[27:18]
your findings with them? Manufacturing, automation, and software
[27:22]
systems? Sure. Go down. So, when I read
[27:29]
in different things, obviously the cloud based solutions
[27:31]
we're looking for was Amazon, felt like they
[27:35]
didn't really have a whole lot of municipal
[27:37]
applications. It was mostly law enforcement, schools, military,
[27:41]
things like that. Not saying that it couldn't
[27:43]
work but I just didn't see a lot
[27:44]
of client reference or applications related to kind
[27:48]
of what we typically handle on day by
[27:50]
day. Mhmm. From a budget standpoint, seem to
[27:54]
be in line with what some of our
[27:56]
budget constraints are. Like I said before, I
[27:59]
was unclear about the GIS and the interface
[28:02]
which I think didn't have help answer. They
[28:06]
have questions on the symptom capabilities and that
[28:09]
infield reporting from tablets and smartphones and and
[28:12]
some of those items that we currently use
[28:15]
in the field and then a full person
[28:16]
as well. So I did have I I
[28:18]
think I had more questions on on their
[28:21]
stuff that, you know, could potentially be answered
[28:23]
in a demo, but I think I had
[28:29]
more questions on their stuff. Mean, I think
[28:34]
potentially meet our needs. I just don't know
[28:36]
if that would be the best solution for
[28:38]
us based on the initial Beatrice, what are
[28:42]
your findings on MathGroup? Yeah, I saw that
[28:47]
similarly, a lot of their examples were more
[28:51]
in regards to asset management and record keeping.
[28:56]
For example, one of theirs was the charter
[28:58]
school. And so they were, the school was
[29:02]
needing to be able to upkeep all their
[29:05]
books and records and inventory. And so it
[29:08]
seemed to do a good job with all
[29:09]
of that. I'm just, I just didn't see
[29:11]
as much of the, work order, reporting and
[29:17]
the, the, back and forth between like a
[29:21]
supervisor and a field employee and those kind
[29:24]
of capabilities that again, through our presentation, we
[29:27]
may be able to answer. Yeah, I see
[29:30]
they don't mention chat capabilities or multi user
[29:33]
interfaces. They don't mention workflow sequencing, which is
[29:35]
basically what we really needed to dive into.
[29:38]
They don't mention automatic unique work order numbering.
[29:40]
They didn't mention GIS integration. They have no
[29:43]
navigation. The reports, they had PDF docs and
[29:47]
different types. However, their mobile component was very
[29:50]
limited. Like it's not navigation friendly. The user
[29:53]
interface does not it doesn't look seamless, neither
[29:57]
easy to use. It was just more of
[29:58]
like a sign off type of a thing.
[30:00]
We could sign that work was done, but
[30:02]
we need more of a sequence and automation.
[30:06]
So that was my viewpoint on that. I
[30:08]
did speak with someone from the airport, one
[30:11]
of their references, but they don't use it
[30:13]
in the capacity that we would need to
[30:15]
use it in. But they were very satisfied
[30:16]
with their product. Like to what both of
[30:20]
Jeff and Beatrice said, it seemed more asset
[30:22]
management from that standpoint. Inventory. I agree with
[30:33]
what you all said. Exactly. Same same points.
[30:50]
Take your given features and what was discussed
[30:54]
earlier about the shortlisting presentations, but not just
[30:59]
presentations, demonstrations as well. Yeah, we definitely need
[31:02]
that. So, that standpoint, specifically with being a
[31:07]
star as an engine that have a built
[31:09]
in GIS integration that has set of references
[31:13]
that were in the realm of what we're
[31:15]
working on. Who are you referring to? Jim,
[31:18]
who are you referring to now? Mainstar. No,
[31:21]
we're talking about mask groups. Yeah, just gave
[31:23]
you the first got it. But, yeah, they
[31:29]
had a set of references covered. We're looking
[31:33]
at some specific. That's the inventory focus on
[31:43]
the. For a custom interface where we're trying
[31:47]
to go off the shelf. Configuration, here that
[31:52]
would be more of a testing phase to
[31:54]
work with the PIS. That would be positive,
[31:56]
right? Positive. Immediate time, long term maintenance, as
[32:02]
well as really having data disconnecting from the
[32:06]
PRS, not getting it directly through services. Yeah.
[32:10]
I wanted to touch upon that because one
[32:12]
of the things I was trying to identify
[32:14]
was whether or not those assets and things
[32:19]
that you're reporting on, sometimes they don't exist
[32:22]
as an actual inventory item. Right. Like a
[32:24]
sidewalk. In a sidewalk or a pothole that
[32:27]
appears in a roadway. How do you manage
[32:31]
a nonexistent inventory or a nonexistent issue in
[32:36]
the asset system? Right. Jeff, do you want
[32:42]
to start on smart energy systems, your findings?
[32:53]
I think they provided some of the best
[32:56]
individuals as far as so that we could
[32:58]
actually see what the system would look and
[33:00]
feel like. Got the impression from their response
[33:06]
that it was fully capable on top of
[33:08]
the smartphone features. I like the dashboard. It
[33:11]
binds me up by the rec track system
[33:12]
that we use for recreation management. But I
[33:16]
think, you know, the impressions that I got
[33:17]
was the infield reporting and and the ability
[33:19]
to use it out in the field in
[33:21]
real time. Kind of exactly what we're looking
[33:24]
through. That was a proposal. NNGIS questions were
[33:28]
answered to me, but I think the integration
[33:30]
of that was clear in that presentation. It
[33:34]
seemed like they do have most municipal applications
[33:38]
from their client reference sheets. I think without,
[33:43]
I didn't make a note, I think I
[33:44]
remember I don't believe they provided contact information
[33:47]
for the references. Think it was available. Right.
[33:52]
It's fine, but I think having those client
[33:55]
references would be helpful to know who we
[33:58]
can contact just to get some more feedback
[34:00]
from them. Think from a budget standpoint, again,
[34:03]
was in line with what we currently have
[34:05]
budgeted for, but overall, very impressed, at least
[34:10]
what we could see through their response. I
[34:13]
like it it met our needs, and I
[34:16]
really like some of the asset management as
[34:18]
well as that infield reporting and kind of
[34:21]
real time activity. But then I'll kind of
[34:24]
take it over. Patrick? Yes, I agree with
[34:29]
everything you said. And, you know, I spoke
[34:32]
about them earlier. I completely agree. Yeah, I
[34:37]
definitely had a lot of positive things when
[34:41]
I was going through it with them as
[34:43]
far as their chat capabilities look very user
[34:46]
friendly. Their mobile systems, like the navigation is
[34:50]
fully supported, but they also have these little
[34:52]
modules. And they are like very easy to
[34:55]
look at, you know, from the user's standpoint,
[34:58]
whether it's following up with a work order
[35:01]
or, passing it on, having to distribute that
[35:04]
to the team or approvals. I thought the
[35:06]
flow was very good and of course they
[35:08]
do have the integration. Seeing it demonstrated would
[35:12]
really prove helpful, very useful. I know we
[35:18]
were looking for reporting and analysis capabilities that
[35:24]
were going to be beneficial to the workforce
[35:27]
to get right to what they need to
[35:29]
do. The one thing I did not get
[35:33]
from these were was whether or not the
[35:35]
level of custom ability, you know, customization that
[35:38]
we can implement. Mhmm. You know, being a
[35:41]
SaaS or, know, hosted solution, we normally don't
[35:45]
have access to the data. But the reporting
[35:48]
tools that are utilized in order for us
[35:50]
to be able to say, I need to
[35:51]
create a report that you never thought of,
[35:54]
or go through a cycle of working with
[35:56]
you to figure out how do I design
[35:58]
exactly what I need because you haven't thought
[36:01]
of it yet. So that was like the
[36:03]
only thing that kind of wavered. And I
[36:06]
think looking at their presentation kind of brought
[36:09]
that up in my mind to say, I
[36:12]
should go back and look at it, what
[36:13]
everyone has. Because that's an IT standpoint, that's
[36:19]
something we come across to set. We like
[36:21]
to have a little bit more hands in
[36:22]
and controls rather than having package reports. We
[36:25]
can actually go in and say, oh, what
[36:28]
can we do with the report other than
[36:29]
take the package item? So but overall, it
[36:32]
was a very good presentation. So what you're
[36:35]
saying is like having already pre done, ready
[36:38]
to go reports or versus one that you
[36:41]
want to create, like something specific. Right. Well,
[36:43]
like you have pre, you have packaged your
[36:45]
canned reports. They look great. They're perfect. Got
[36:47]
it. But then you're saying, but there's some
[36:49]
variable or something that I want to customize
[36:53]
because now this is something that, you know,
[36:57]
it's not a it's not a thing we
[36:58]
can do in a CAN report because it's
[37:00]
not available, but we can work with someone
[37:03]
or we can have controls to do it
[37:05]
ourselves. Tim? Touch on the negative airflow briefly,
[37:14]
the references which you brought up, not like
[37:17]
the contact information was not included. Yeah, we'll
[37:19]
disclose later in consideration. That being said, they
[37:28]
had a couple of extra things in there
[37:29]
that I didn't see mentioned in the proposals.
[37:34]
One is an asset risk score. This is
[37:37]
in a realm of really a true enterprise
[37:39]
asset management, again, that has many components. That
[37:42]
last component is beyond the asset management, beyond
[37:46]
the work order management, into how is this
[37:49]
asset performing? We need to look at replacing
[37:53]
this. I didn't see where we could provide
[37:56]
information to some of these applications, provide information
[37:59]
that you can use as backup for a
[38:01]
capital improvement project. You say it did or
[38:05]
did not? I didn't see where it did
[38:07]
You mean in any of them, right? In
[38:09]
any of them? No. If it's not in
[38:15]
the specification to do that, then you're kind
[38:17]
of searching outside of that range. We didn't
[38:19]
identify that. It's a value added benefit. That's
[38:23]
why I wanna make sure that that was
[38:25]
laid out in the spec that we want.
[38:29]
Not being restricted. Yeah, you can't really upgrade
[38:32]
on it or evaluate on that. Should have
[38:33]
the criteria that we have. Right. What was
[38:35]
inside the spec? Well, I'm not really. Broader
[38:38]
comment about that kind of application. So, straight
[38:41]
to comment. The other was specifically mentioning to
[38:46]
select the assets want more to create to
[38:50]
work over from that DIS map. Any of
[38:54]
these things, especially in terms of buried assets,
[38:56]
such as saltwater, these things are not done
[38:59]
for their ID in different locations. They don't
[39:01]
go by an address. You may be saying,
[39:04]
but this is the on the site. This
[39:08]
thing here, I need to open up a
[39:10]
work order against these one more features here.
[39:13]
That was something that was in spec. I
[39:17]
really recall seeing that really mentioned in the
[39:19]
others, but I didn't find it mention it
[39:22]
near specific. Again, I tried to go back
[39:26]
and look at different things as I was
[39:28]
reading through this. A couple of high points,
[39:31]
a lot of that negative. Okay, so last
[39:35]
but not least, Zeeling. Jeff, do you want
[39:38]
to cover that? Comments, think from again, from
[39:52]
a budget standpoint, I think it was a
[39:54]
lot. We did have the, like we've got
[40:02]
to mention before, I think it was format
[40:04]
of as built focused kind of facility underground.
[40:09]
So I'd be curious on some of the
[40:11]
other things around that scope because I didn't
[40:13]
really see a lot on asset management outside
[40:16]
of buildings was the question that I got.
[40:20]
They did have a mobile platform, which again
[40:23]
seemed like it could be integrated with the
[40:25]
field work. Municipal applications are minimal from what
[40:32]
I can tell. They had a lot of
[40:38]
like Department of Transportation, some counties, but I
[40:43]
think it was more kind of building property
[40:48]
maintenance. I wasn't sure on the, you know,
[40:51]
kind of park applications, work order systems, things
[40:54]
like that, but that was kind of my
[40:57]
quick synopsis of that, but I know they
[40:59]
were heavily focused on kind of as builds,
[41:01]
but they did reference, you know, other other
[41:03]
kind of maintenance type plans and it seemed
[41:07]
to be pretty mobile friendly from what I
[41:10]
could tell but again, I think all of
[41:11]
that might be out to. Presentage. Yeah. So.
[41:18]
I agree. So for me, with Z Link,
[41:21]
they didn't mention chat capabilities. They did say
[41:24]
they kind of support a workflow sequence. But
[41:27]
they didn't mention like a unique work order
[41:29]
numbering, you know, because that's really important, just
[41:32]
using the system that even we have one
[41:35]
of the things we were concerned with. It
[41:36]
is GIS supported, but again, Tim expressed a
[41:39]
lot of concern regarding their math and their
[41:41]
actual asset. So another thing I had was
[41:47]
they do support preventive maintenance, but they didn't
[41:49]
really fully explain the automation. Automation is important
[41:52]
for us because again, an AC needs to
[41:54]
be automatically a work order should just be
[41:57]
generated at six month interval, year interval, whatever.
[42:01]
We need to be able to see that
[42:02]
that's possible. Their search functionalities seem a little
[42:07]
complicated. It doesn't seem user friendly. Their alerts
[42:10]
are supported, but I need to see how
[42:11]
the timelines work on overdue tasks. Their attachments
[42:15]
can only be viewed web based versions and
[42:17]
not easily accessible to staff performing work orders
[42:20]
with mobile devices. Their mobile version is limited
[42:23]
because the entire platform operates in a browser
[42:25]
window that's mostly a common application for a
[42:28]
desktop. So the handheld tablets and smartphones, while
[42:31]
you can access it, it's not necessarily built
[42:34]
for mobile, per se, visually, aesthetically for the
[42:39]
end user. And then it doesn't support mobile
[42:43]
navigation. So those are my concerns for them.
[42:47]
The one thing you hit on was I
[42:50]
did not see where the in IT, we
[42:55]
call it responsive design. So even though you
[42:57]
have a web based application and you want
[43:00]
people to go to the web based application
[43:02]
and they, oh, you can use it on
[43:04]
a tablet or mobile phone, well, when I
[43:06]
go to those other devices, I expect the
[43:09]
interface to completely change and, work with my
[43:13]
scale. A full screen website should come down
[43:17]
to a half screen on a tablet, which
[43:18]
should come down to maybe some modified menus
[43:23]
and modules in order for me to operate
[43:25]
it from a cell phone. You kind of
[43:27]
want to see that consolidation of the design
[43:30]
come in. Technical wise, I did like that
[43:36]
from a programming perspective, like, okay, well, there's
[43:42]
some good coding going on here, some good
[43:44]
design, but then it's over complicated. It's pad
[43:47]
drawings. That's what saying. For a project manager,
[43:49]
yes, it's kind of cool to be able
[43:52]
to see those drawings and that level of
[43:54]
complexity is great for me. But for the
[43:58]
users. But for the end user and the
[43:59]
people that might be having to execute or
[44:02]
initiate on a worker, they're going to look
[44:03]
at this and go, I don't know what
[44:04]
to do with this. I don't know how
[44:06]
to operate around because it's a little bit
[44:07]
technical or I agree. Tim? Yeah. Agree with
[44:14]
that. Looks good. And, just to reiterate some
[44:18]
thank you for, they've sort of got this
[44:21]
growing focus. It's not really needed. It's an
[44:25]
overlap with existing products. Not really spreading and
[44:29]
branching out to what kind of the integration
[44:32]
that we're talking about at this level. The
[44:36]
references seem to be more limited in maintenance.
[44:41]
And then there was one that was a
[44:42]
little bit more broader that was matched here,
[44:45]
but a lot of work necessarily is what
[44:48]
was presented to us in the same kind
[44:50]
of broad It is makes mention of managing
[44:57]
drawings and maps, importing drawings and maps. That's
[45:01]
not really the integration. Correct. That's the data
[45:04]
here. So, with all that being said, I
[45:09]
definitely want to recommend a presentation. I know
[45:12]
we're probably in Houston and in agreement with
[45:15]
that. What I'm gonna say is, it seems
[45:18]
like you all went through very thorough, great
[45:20]
job, you guys sat down and went through
[45:23]
this process. It sounds like you have a
[45:26]
lot of key points you want here. Done
[45:29]
with that part, I think that maybe the
[45:31]
next step you may want to recognize. I'm
[45:33]
just recommending again your your guiding the process
[45:36]
here, but you may wanna go to a
[45:38]
ranking to see how everybody lays out, what
[45:40]
you're thinking at this point. Mhmm. When you
[45:42]
do an initial scoring, it can be the
[45:44]
you know, and then you can look at
[45:45]
the scoring and see what it lays out,
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if you all agree with it, and you
[45:48]
can talk about do you want to shortlist
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or do you wanna bring them all back
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for presentations? Or if you feel like you
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want to bring them all for presentations right
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now, we need to close it down and
[46:00]
bring everybody back in presentations. It's up to
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you. All right. That's what I was gonna
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ask Brian. I think maybe can we preliminarily
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score have a separate have a follow-up conversation
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and then determine who you operate for presentation?
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Yeah. Yeah, I think that's what I was
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saying. So we talk a little more in-depth
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about who might be top one, two, three,
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then if there's any major discrepancies, we can
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narrow those down. Yeah. That's what I would
[46:25]
say. That's how I do the scoring right
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now, and let's see how it lays out.
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Mhmm. And then you go from there. Alright.
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I agree. That sounds good. You You want
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us to do it on the score sheet?
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Yeah. Yeah. You need a calculator, Jeff. I'm
[46:45]
not doing that. Pulling too many. You got
[46:47]
one score. He needs a calculator. Only four.
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There's only four. Give Jeff extra time. That's
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all good. Two of them. I really wanna
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make sure to When I see fair and
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effective. Overall, I'm good. Points. I need to
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go. You're an old, Jeff. You're an old.
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What happened once I hit you? Scores on
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the board is so exciting. It's like running
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a basketball game, hitting the scoreboard. It's really
[48:48]
cool. Is? First time I've seen it done.
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It's pretty cool. Wow. Really surprised. Interesting there.
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I didn't think anybody would agree with me.
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Why do you say that now? Because everybody
[49:17]
hates ITs response. Can you please just review
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the screen? Make sure that you agree with
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those numbers that match your numbers. Everybody's reviewed
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it. All agreed. That's the way it lays
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out. Yes. Thanks. Okay. We have, it's like
[50:00]
smart energy systems or smart water, ranked number
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one, eight eight star. Number two, and you've
[50:09]
got your, which is DVA mass group three
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and ceiling incorporated four. K. So when we
[50:18]
first started our dialogue today, I I told
[50:20]
you that this was '19. I also said
[50:23]
that you can get a presentation. We're all
[50:25]
available if you talk about wanting presentations. So
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I'd recommend I would recommend now to have
[50:32]
a discussion in what we want to bring
[50:35]
back in the presentations. One, and three. Four
[50:39]
copies here. One, two, three. And one of
[50:42]
the things I I want to let you
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know in presentations, you don't want companies to
[50:47]
come back and reiterate what they put in
[50:50]
their fault. That's not what we want. Mhmm.
[50:52]
Okay? We want them to come back. We're
[50:54]
gonna ask you as the committee. You talk
[50:57]
about report. K? And then basically can versus,
[51:00]
custom kind of reporting, but, you know, doing
[51:04]
demonstrations. We're gonna ask for these things so
[51:06]
that when they come, they're gonna have a
[51:08]
tailored talking points, and that's what we really
[51:11]
want them to really delve into. That's one
[51:14]
of the things that will come with these
[51:15]
presentations. Going to hone them down to where
[51:18]
are things that you've talked about and didn't
[51:21]
see those things. Where is that integration? How
[51:23]
does that work? So we're gonna get your
[51:25]
questions and we're gonna tell them to tailor
[51:27]
to these talking points and not just basically
[51:30]
reiterate the same thing over because there's no
[51:33]
reason for that. So with that being said,
[51:37]
how do you wanna proceed with who do
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you want to bring back the presentations at
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this point? You want to bring back? Four?
[51:45]
Three? Three. I'd say since we all agreed
[51:48]
that the we voted four on ZLink, that
[51:52]
Z Link will be excluded. And then we
[51:55]
go back and look at the ones where
[51:56]
we're wavering between one to three scores for
[51:59]
the top three. Everybody agree with that? Yes.
[52:06]
Okay. The majority has basically the top three.
[52:09]
So we'll right now, Seelink will drop them
[52:14]
out. We'll bring the feedback from Inkstar, DBA
[52:20]
Mass Group, and Smart Energy Water for presentations.
[52:24]
So that being said, everybody agrees with that?
[52:27]
Yes. Okay. That that concludes that part of,
[52:31]
of the discussion. Next piece is, again, this
[52:35]
is informational, we're gonna ask you to put
[52:40]
your questions together. Do not cc everybody. Do
[52:44]
it send it send it to your emails
[52:47]
to Rebecca separately. You are in silence. You're
[52:52]
in basically, I've heard the, you know, Sunshine
[52:56]
Law has an ad hoc page, so you're
[52:58]
not having discussions amongst each other. But so
[53:01]
send those, and we're not having group chat
[53:03]
and email or anything like that. So that
[53:05]
way we're just sending those individually. What Rebecca
[53:08]
will do is compile all those questions back.
[53:11]
She'll send them each individually to you so
[53:14]
you can review all of them, and then
[53:16]
we're gonna send it out to the company.
[53:19]
Send it out to the companies if there's
[53:21]
anything in between that you feel redundant or
[53:23]
whatever you can make comments to that but
[53:26]
again what we're gonna try to do is
[53:28]
hone this in so you had a question
[53:29]
question or request yeah So it's for all
[53:33]
of them, right? One big list for all
[53:36]
of them, Okay. And then when they have,
[53:40]
when they're doing their presentation, will we be
[53:42]
able to have dialogue in case we have
[53:44]
like an extra question? The presentation aspect is
[53:49]
question and answer. That comes basically, that is
[53:53]
when the time, like obviously today I said
[53:55]
at the very beginning, thank you for attending,
[53:57]
but we're not having that dialogue with you
[53:58]
here. They were sitting here in the audience.
[54:01]
A lot of times that's a very opportunistic
[54:07]
people like, hey, by the way, can you
[54:08]
tell me about this? That's not why we
[54:09]
have that. We want to focus on them.
[54:12]
Those are closed door meetings. They're publicly advertised,
[54:15]
but they're closed door meetings. So basically, it's
[54:18]
us having discussions with them. This information will
[54:21]
be available once we conclude the whole process,
[54:23]
but we want to give them the time
[54:25]
to have that and again, there's a lot
[54:27]
of information to go through so we're gonna
[54:29]
have to think about time. We'll talk about
[54:30]
that those elements in a few seconds as
[54:32]
well, but we want to give them time
[54:36]
to go through those talking points that you're
[54:38]
gonna be talking about, and it sounds like
[54:40]
he wants some demonstrations now. So that, you
[54:42]
know, even if it's bringing stuff in, touch,
[54:45]
feel, you know, if there's something on the
[54:47]
left like that. Yes. You know, you gotta
[54:50]
be specific on some of those requests. You
[54:52]
know, as far as, hey, if you want
[54:54]
to bring in a tablet, show us how
[54:56]
it works on a tablet, bring in a
[54:58]
mobile phone with the apps that we can
[55:00]
do this, bring in these applications so that
[55:03]
we can see a live environment that is
[55:05]
really working in. Just keep in mind those
[55:07]
questions when you put those down then they're
[55:11]
prepared and they all know coming back these
[55:14]
are the things we want. So did I
[55:17]
answer your question? My question is in regards
[55:25]
to so the my responses and things that
[55:28]
I'll be asking for in the demonstration are
[55:30]
going be based on the list of major
[55:33]
bullet points of what we're looking for in
[55:35]
there. When they come to do presentations, I'm
[55:40]
able to ask questions that are maybe outside.
[55:43]
Yeah, some follow-up things like that. Okay, okay.
[55:47]
Right, it's not just you're not limited to
[55:49]
those questions. Those are starting points. Those are
[55:51]
really things that you want them to dial
[55:53]
in. You're going to have, you know, they're
[55:56]
going to do a presentation and they're going
[55:57]
to get into a Q and A period
[55:58]
of time afterwards. So, you're not going to
[56:00]
be muted. And we can Right. Because I
[56:03]
mean, obviously through demonstration, you're going to see
[56:05]
something. And I might add like 50 other
[56:07]
questions from what I just saw. Right. So
[56:10]
again, like from past experience, what I've seen
[56:13]
is giving them the time to let them
[56:15]
go through and give them, you know, there's
[56:18]
a dialogue where they want you to stop
[56:19]
and let them to interject into it. It
[56:22]
gets difficult, but we like to try to
[56:23]
give them as a defined amount of time.
[56:25]
We tell them forty five minutes, this is
[56:28]
probably going be up to forty five minute
[56:29]
presentation. Would imagine somewhere in a typically dummy
[56:33]
if you could even that's a lot. That's
[56:35]
a lot. Is it too much? Do you
[56:37]
think for a presentation? Per vendor? Are you
[56:39]
saying per vendor? Thirty minutes. Thirty minutes max.
[56:57]
Me personally I think a thirty minute presentation
[57:00]
followed by question and answer I think is
[57:02]
probably sufficient and then you know I think
[57:04]
we can narrow it down from there. So
[57:08]
we'll do that we'll set up the three,
[57:11]
we'll be contacting them and then setting out
[57:13]
that you know we're gonna talk about dates
[57:15]
in a second but we'll contact them we'll
[57:18]
give them a first number to serve on
[57:20]
basically who's available for time slots for that
[57:24]
day but now we need to identify the
[57:26]
date so and enough time to give them
[57:31]
a you put your question and then be
[57:35]
putting it together. Yeah if you want them
[57:40]
here, like everybody, you want them here physically.
[57:44]
Yes yes okay I think it's important for
[57:47]
us to have a tablet have a smartphone
[57:49]
see if we can figure it out I
[57:51]
don't know if we can really capture that
[57:57]
So I'll be Is that okay with the
[57:59]
rest of the committee? Mean, do feel the
[58:00]
same way? Yes. Somebody in front of you.
[58:03]
No. No. No. We I agree with that.
[58:04]
100 course to your benefit. Right now, council
[58:07]
is out to the summer after June. First
[58:10]
meeting in June. They come back the July.
[58:16]
June eighth and then the July. Right. So
[58:18]
you've had a good period of time. So,
[58:19]
I mean, if you want, not to say
[58:21]
that you want to put you have some
[58:22]
time before you leave, bring us to the
[58:24]
next. Oh, I think the recommendation. I think
[58:26]
they're all out of town actors too, I
[58:29]
believe. Correct? I would imagine. I don't know
[58:31]
whether I didn't look specifically at that. So,
[58:33]
again, just take into consideration travel arrangements for
[58:35]
them but also, first of all here, when
[58:41]
can you get your questions to Rebecca? Rebecca,
[58:44]
well, when you get that. So can we
[58:54]
set up in here? Monday? Tuesday? So by
[58:59]
the June 7, can you have all your
[59:00]
questions to us? Yes. No. I can. Okay.
[59:03]
We just wanna give you enough time. Again,
[59:05]
June 7. Have more questions as far as
[59:10]
a date for this? After the June 20
[59:13]
for me. Okay, so we'd probably maybe look
[59:16]
at maybe the July. Yeah. Mhmm. That's The
[59:21]
second week in July? Sounds perfect. Yeah. The
[59:28]
second week in July. Right, Joe? The twenty
[59:30]
ninth. Either the sec the June and the
[59:36]
July 2. Yeah. July probably works. Again, we
[59:39]
wanna make sure that they have enough time
[59:41]
to put everything together for how long do
[59:42]
all that stuff. So, July would be how
[59:47]
about twelve or thirteen? Twelve is a good
[59:52]
day. Twelve is good. Yeah. Twelve? Very little
[59:56]
bit more. Twelve? Yes. I'm very Of July.
[59:59]
Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. Yes.
[1:00:03]
Okay. Sounds great. After I we'd be looking
[1:00:05]
for them to make the arrangement. Because you're
[1:00:08]
on early morning for you. Mhmm. So, basically,
[1:00:13]
very smart calendar. To have the demonstrations. So
[1:00:21]
what we'll do is try to schedule those
[1:00:23]
in the morning, get those knocked out, and
[1:00:25]
then depending on their time on however Rebecca
[1:00:28]
works this, we'll schedule a subsequent new committee
[1:00:32]
meeting that day. So what we'll do is
[1:00:34]
we'll go through along it, but it's gonna
[1:00:36]
be in presentations, and then we'll move to
[1:00:40]
a review committee following that. That becomes and
[1:00:43]
that way we can make a recommendation and
[1:00:45]
get everything Hopefully, we won't get it. It's
[1:00:48]
fresh in your mind. Yes. You know? Well,
[1:00:49]
yeah. You or Rebecca be providing lunch and
[1:00:53]
breakfast? In large jelly sandwiches, I usually have
[1:00:56]
great at making. If you're okay with those,
[1:00:58]
I'll make the peanut butter jelly sandwiches. Aside
[1:01:00]
from that, no. Okay. But, if if that's
[1:01:08]
good, I think we further, anybody else anything
[1:01:10]
like that? Alright. Let wanna go ahead and
[1:01:13]
end the meeting. Thank you. Support your questions.
[1:01:18]
But Rebecca, please. I'll need these back. Right?
[1:01:21]
I do need your documents back. Thank you,
[1:01:23]
Doug. Mhmm. And we're done.