Street-lighting equipment

Tender description

The council requires a web-hosted Central Management System (CMS) that allows the LED lighting across the city of Glasgow to be controlled. The council will be procuring circa 3 500 LED lanterns as part of this procurement exercise. The contractor will be required to manage an installation schedule, to be complete for December 2018, that ensures the LED lanterns and the CMS are simultaneously installed and fully compatible. The contractor will be required to maintain the CMS through the life of the contract. The CMS will be required to be sufficiently scalable to add up to circa 20 000 LED lanterns through 2 subsequent installations during the initial contract term. The council requires a web-hosted Central Management System (CMS) that allows the LED lighting across the city of Glasgow to be controlled; to reduce energy consumption and manage the lighting levels and reporting on failures. A communications network that carries the commands from the CMS to the lights and information from the lamps with sufficient bandwidth and density of aggregation points and light sensors to meet the needs of each area covered. This network shall facilitate the communication from other sensors associated with a Smart City. The CMS must be approved for use under the Balance and Settlement Code (BSC) by Elexon (https://www.elexon.co.uk/reference/technical-operations/unmetered-supplies/central-management-systems/). Glasgow City Council will be procuring circa 3 500 LED lanterns as part of this procurement exercise. The contractor will be required to manage an installation schedule, to be complete for December 2018, that ensures the LED lanterns and the CMS are simultaneously installed and fully compatible. The contractor will be required to maintain the CMS through the life of the contract. The CMS will be required to be sufficiently scalable to add up to circa 20 000 LED lanterns through two subsequent installations during the initial term of the contract. These additional installations are subject to further approval and funding by the council.