19D - RFP - MODERNIZE DT PARKING METERS

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City staff will determine where meter mechanisms and sensors will be deployed. The contractor will deliver complete meter mechanisms, work with staff to install the meter mechanisms into existing meter housings, provide and maintain the meter management system, assist with setting up the single /double space parking meter ( SDSPM), conduct training, and troubleshoot problems as they arise. The City's intent is for the single parking meter mechanism and meter dome to be retrofitted into the city's current single -space meter housings, without any changes to the key /lock systems, coin vault, or cash collection operations, and for a wireless system to be connected to the meters to provide information and to manage the operation, maintenance, collections, and reports. The City's current parking meters are Duncan Industries Model Eagle CK. The SDSPM are to operate in an independent network environment, meaning that each meter is wirelessly enabled to communicate with the provider's parking meter management system without the installation of any additional networking equipment. Should the network environment temporarily fail, the single -space meter shall be capable of operating in a stand -alone mode until the network environment is restored. In addition, the meters shall: • Accept credit and debit card payments. • Accept coin payment. • Fit into the existing Duncan parking meter housing of the City of Santa Ana. • Include a standard solar panel for charging and maintaining battery power. • Provide real -time maintenance status updates. • Allow for variable rate structures and the ability to conveniently and remotely change rates by the City. • Allow for variable time - limits and time enforcement structures, including the ability for the City to conveniently and remotely set special event time structures. • Ability to communicate changing rate structures at the single -space meter. • Be compatible with pay -by -cell phone payment technology. • Be future compatible with smart phone applications that provide general information about the city's parking system and /or real -time parking availability. • Compatible with license plate reader technology (preferred, not necessary.) • The meter must have real -time alarms and status reports for maintenance needs, reporting by text messages, or a -mails to staff resources designated by the City as well as the wireless based management system. • Utilize wireless technology for 2 -way communications with the parking meters to monitor payments, status and usage; and provide remote diagnostics and the ability to change settings remotely (e.g., pricing or out -of- service notifications), etc. 13 19D -15