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26 FEBRUARY 2015 1 PAGE 2 <br />Industry Specialization. We employ professionals who focus exclusively on utility enabling <br />technology implementation, and water operations and delivery. Our involvement has <br />resulted in a depth of understanding of the full range of issues facing water utilities as well as <br />the potential solutions and tools available to solve them. <br />25 Public Utility Focus. We attribute our success to our customer- orientated business model, <br />project management experience and credentials, and expansive, relevant technical skills <br />developed over thousands of utility engagements. Our work with publicly owned utilities <br />across North America provides us with a systemic, thorough understanding of the hurdles <br />and benefits that municipalities can experience throughout a smart metering opportunity <br />assessment, business case evaluation, solution selection, and implementation. <br />Established Frameworks. With more than two decades of experience with smart metering <br />planning, design, and implementation, we have developed numerous industry - tested <br />frameworks and methodologies that help ensure consistency, reliability and high quality <br />results. Our professionals use these tools to support a wide range of consulting tasks. <br />H Strong References. Our clients support our claim to provide the type of knowledgeable, <br />independent, objective and efficient services that the City is requesting —and we encourage <br />you to contact them. We believe our combined experience with AMI, utility operations and <br />water services set us apart from our competitors. <br />We organized our approach to the Scope of Services into a work plan that we believe will best <br />achieve the City's objectives and scope of services includes in the RFP. By working closely with <br />the City team, Black & Veatch will deliver a thorough AMI feasibility study that maps the <br />business, customer service and financial value that AMI could potentially offer the City. We will <br />map the costs and benefits associated with the implementation of the current smart metering <br />technologies to the City's specific needs for the future. The following summarizes the tasks <br />detailed in our proposal: <br />1. Project Planning and Kickoff Identify, clarify and gain consensus on the City's business <br />strategies, goals and objectives, and validate the schedule and plans to perform the project <br />work. <br />2. Information Gathering and Analysis: Gather and review all relevant information to <br />understand the current situation to construct a basis on which to implement AMI. <br />3. AMI Opportunity Assessment: Review the City organization and operations and identify the <br />impact AMI would have and how best to implement and leverage AMI solutions for the City <br />and its customers. <br />4. Technical Infrastructure and Architecture: Identify the specific operational and customer <br />benefits of AMI at the City, analyze the costs associated with deploying an advanced meter <br />solution, and analyze the benefits, costs and impacts of the various vendor technical <br />solutions and capabilities enabled by AMI. <br />5. Business Case Development: Develop high -level system requirements that accommodate the <br />City's sought after AMI benefits to infrastructure, operations, and business processes <br />6. Project Design and Implementation: Identify the best practices and implementation <br />recommendations for the City to implement a system -wide AMI project, including how to <br />251 -50 <br />