Baltimore City, along with Baltimore County, has initiated procurement of an Automatic Meter Reading/Infrastructure (AMR/I) Program. This is a major step towards improving customer service through replacement of our existing water metering and customer billing systems.

This new system, when completed, will enable communication between citizens’ meters and a new billing system. This will mean that the manual process of opening meter covers and reading meters one-by-one will be eliminated, along with the possible transcription errors. Weather-related delays will no longer factor into providing our customers with timely bills.

With this system it will be possible to detect continuous water use which can be an indicator of a leak on a customer’s service, thus saving money for our citizens. This will also free-up the current meter readers to attend to customer service needs – a vital component of any world-class utility.

Baltimore City requires that bidders must be prequalified prior to bid opening. The City desires to prequalify AMR/I vendors and installation contractors for the upcoming project which will include the upgrade and replacement of water meters (to be furnished by the City) and the supply and installation of a new AMR/I system, including hardware and software utilizing a fixed area network with a mobile Automatic Meter Reader (AMR) configuration for certain service areas within the County. The required prequalification category for bidding this project will be G90089-Automatic Meter Reader (AMR) Manufacturer/Installer.
The Prequalification Application Package can be downloaded at:
http://cityservices.baltimorecity.gov/dpw/bac/iof/BAC_Prequalification_Package.pdf
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