Town of Livonia Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project

The LACPC electronic portal has been designated as the site to submit your Proposal electronically in response to the Town of Livonia RFP for AMI Water & Gas Meters – https://lamats.eauctionservices.com.  All proposals are to be submitted electronically only.  

 ELECTRONIC INSTRUCTIONS to ALL PROPOSERS 

1.  Register by clicking "Start a Response" on the left of your screen;  

2.  After registering, please download all RFP Documents under “Attachments” and review thoroughly;  

3.  Complete all tasks under the Tasks Bar;  

4.  Submit your proposal by 2:00 pm on April 8, 2025, “Recipients Will Drag & Drop Here" function.  

SUMMARY 

The Town of Livonia’s primary objective is to contract with a qualified vendor to provide an Automatic Meter Reading (AMI) System for Water & Gas Utilities. This RFP will cover a system-wide AMI Mobile Read implementation. The Town wishes to obtain a system that provides the best long-term value over the system's lifetime.  For reliability and meter reading integrity, the Proposer should be the single source of the different components of the system deriving - if possible - from one manufacturer (water & gas endpoints, water meters, gas meters, meter reading equipment and meter reading software). 

The Proposer shall provide all hardware and software that together comprise the proposed AMI system. This includes meters, meter registers (in the case of retrofits), meter interface units, wire and wire connectors, data collection units, handheld programmers (if necessary). 

AMI System should be capable of reading new meters as well as recently purchased solid state (Sensus iPerl) water meters and Sensus Gas Meter 700GM 2 channel SmartPoints.  
 

PROPOSALS 

Proposals are to be submitted electronically only on through https://lamats.eauctionsevices.com.  Registration through this site is required to access all RFP documents.  Proposals are due by April 8, 2025, at 2:00 pm. 

QUESTIONS 

About the RFP: Contact Donna Bergeron, Town Clerk, donna.b@livoniala.net . 

ABOUT THE BUYER  

The Town of Livonia, or the “BUYER” is located in Livonia, Louisiana in the Parish of Pointe Coupee. The buyer operates water & gas utilities and currently has 375 gas service connections and 865 water service connections.    

The Town of Livonia Mayor or his/her designee will be the Contract Administrator for this project after contracting.  

EVALUATION PROCESS  

Proposals will be reviewed and ranked by the Town of Livonia.  Firms shall be prepared to make a presentation to the Town of Livonia if asked to do so.  

All communications regarding this project, including questions related to this Request for Proposals, must be submitted by email to: Donna Bergeron, Clerk, Town of Livonia, donna.b@livoniala.net . 

About submitting bids electronically: Contact Paul Holmes, Electronic Administrator – paul@lamats.net . 

RFP INFORMATION/NOTICES 

This solicitation is not a "low-bid-wins" solicitation but is an RFP issued pursuant to R.S. 38:2232, PART II-B. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND DATA PROCESSING PROCUREMENT BY POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. 

For ease of distributing documents, providing notice and receiving proposals, the Town has chosen to issue this solicitation as an electronic bid only as allowed under R.S. 38:2212.1(B)(4)(f). 

All Notices of Changes or Addendums will be by email from the platform’s licensor to a proposer’s registered email – EASiBUY (Core Trust) /Licensor – LaMATS eAuction & Bid Services/Licensee  

ELECTRONIC ADMINISTRATIVE FEE 

An electronic administration fee of $1500.00 applies to this RFP, payable by the winning proposer.  No other fees are charged for document access, electronic advertising, bidder registration or for submitting a proposal for consideration. Payment is due upon commencement of the project, and is payable to:  

LaMATS, as Administrator of the LACPC Municipal Joint Cooperative Commission and LaMATS e-Auction & Bid Services, 6767 Perkins, Rd., Baton Rouge, LA  70808.  

JOINT USE & PIGGYBACKS 

If allowed under R.S. 33:1324 (Local Services Law) the selected vendor may be asked to allow other political subdivisions to purchase from the contract the same products at the same unit price.  Any joint use or piggybacks under the contract will be administered by LaMATS – https://lamats.net .  Terms, conditions and administrative fees will apply.  

RFP DOCUMENTS (FOUND UNDER “ATTACHMENTS” IN THE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT BY REGISTERING)