Georgetown Seeks SCADA/DMS/OMS Solution for Utility Expansion

The city of Georgetown has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) capabilities, a distribution management system (DMS) and an outage management system (OMS) as a single solution.

The city is looking to expand, optimize and separate its electric utility infrastructure, which currently shares its SCADA system — AVEVA (Wonderware) InTouch — with the water utility.

While a single solution for SCADA, DMS and OMS is preferred, the city can opt to select the systems best suited for application.

Planned deployment of the chosen SCADA/DMS/OMS has been separated into potential phases: SCADA/DMS foundation capabilities, OMS capabilities, expansion capabilities and potential future capabilities.

The new SCADA/DMS system’s database must be based on a conversion from the existing system. The city prefers the OMS software module to be capable of running on separate primary and redundant servers outside of the SCADA system’s electronic security perimeter (ESP).

According to the RFP, Georgetown is “interested in a system built on a virtualized platform using hardware dedicated to the SCADA system.” While the preferred operating system (OS) for its workstations is the latest version of Microsoft Windows, the city is open to considering a Linux platform.

Although the city is not a NERC-regulated entity, proposers will be expected to follow its standards for cybersecurity. The system must also allow for production environment backups and recovery from cyber events.

Proposed solutions must also allow multiple operators and a trainer to use the system for training and simulation based on the same network model and algorithms as the online SCADA/DMS in specific scenarios.

The system is expected to store historical data for reporting, graphing and aforementioned training simulations.

More detailed information about RFP No. 202402, including all minimum requirements and requested services, can be found online. An online, non-mandatory, pre-proposal conference will be held on Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. The deadline for question submissions is Dec. 15 at 5 p.m. The due date for responses is Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. Jim Monk is the point of contact for this RFP.