City of Richmond: Request For Proposal
City of Richmond: Request For Proposal
City of Richmond: Request For Proposal
Contract 2923P
1. Introduction
The City of Richmond proposes to engage the services of a contractor that will provide the
City of Richmond a fuel dispensing management system.
The objective of this request for proposal is to provide the City with qualified proponents
capable of carrying out the work herein defined. The subsequent proponent submissions
will form the basis for evaluation, interview and selection.
2. Submission Details
Six (6) copies of proposals marked Fuel Dispensing and Management System Contract
2923P addressed to the Purchasing Section, will be received at the Information Counter,
Main Floor, Richmond City Hall, 6911 No. 3 Road, Richmond BC V6Y 2C1, until 12:00
pm, noon, local time, Wednesday, November 15, 2006. Submissions received after this time
will be returned to the sender.
The City reserves the right to cancel this Request for Proposal for any reason without any
liability to any proponent or to waive irregularities at their own discretion.
Proposals may be withdrawn by written notice only provided such notice is received at the
office of the City’s Purchasing Section prior to the date/time set as the closing time for
receiving proposals.
Proposals shall be open for acceptance for 90 days following the submission closing date.
All proposals will remain confidential, subject to the Freedom of Information and Privacy
Act.
Any interpretation of, additions to, deletions from, or any other corrections to the Proposal
document, will be issued as written addenda by the City of Richmond. It is the sole
responsibility of the potential Bidders to check with the City of Richmond’s Website, and /
or BC Bid to ensure that all available information has been received prior to submitting a
bid.
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3. Enquiries
3.1 Clarification of terms and conditions of the proposal process shall be directed to:
Contractual Information:
The City, its agents and employees shall not be responsible for any information given by
way of verbal communication.
Any questions that are received by City of Richmond Staff that affect the Proposal Process
will be issued as addenda by the City of Richmond.
4. Project Background
The City of Richmond is experiencing operational challenges posed by the City’s current
fuel dispensing system, Gasboy ‘Series 1000 Fleetkey System (Gasboy). The fuelling
system is out-dated and no longer meets the needs of the City.
The City of Richmond utilizes one gas dispensing depot at the Worksyard and three types of
fuel: Unleaded Gasoline, Marked Diesel and Bio-Diesel (5% blend.)
• 1 (one) split in-ground 30,000 litre Diesel tank consisting of the following:
The approximate average monthly use of gasoline is 75,000 litres, marked diesel usage is
5,000 litres and bio-diesel is 40,000 litres.
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Fleet Services provides fuelling requirements for approximately 500 City vehicles, 120
RCMP dedicated vehicles and 30 Richmond School Board vehicles.
The types of vehicles and equipment requiring fuelling range from small/medium cars,
small/medium pick up trucks, single and tandem axle dump trucks, backhoes, excavators
and a large variety of Parks equipment.
A pre-bid meeting has been scheduled for Monday, October 23, 2006 at the City of
Richmond Works Yard, 5599 Lynas Lane, Richmond, B.C. from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 pm
(noon) local time.
Please contact Mike Lederer, phone (604) 244-1255 to confirm your attendance at this pre-
Bid meeting.
The City of Richmond strongly encourages all prospective bidders to attend the Pre-Bid
meeting and the Site Visit.
The proponent should visit the site of the work to make allowances in their submission for
such conditions as in the sole opinion of the Proponent are warranted. The City makes no
representations as to the conditions of the work site. No consideration will be given to
requests for compensation for conditions that would have been evident during a reasonable
search of the conditions that will affect the Contract
6. Short List
The City may elect to short list some of the Proposals and require short listed Proponents to
provide additional information or details, including making a presentation, supply samples,
demonstrations, and/or additional technical literature. Samples of items, when required,
must be submitted within the time specified and at no expense to the City. If not destroyed
in testing, the samples will be returned a the Proponent’s request and expense.
7. Pre-Award Negotiations
The City reserves the right, prior to contract award, to make minor changes to the scope or
other areas, and/or negotiate details of the submissions of any proposal to the extent the City
considers appropriate.
8. Irrevocability
Proposals shall be irrevocable and remain open for acceptance for a period not less that
ninety (90) days from the time set for offer closing, whether or not another proposal has
been accepted.
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Proponents should describe options on the hardware and software for the running of the fuel
system, and how it would connect to the pumps. Richmond prefers to supply the computer
hardware running the fuel system software if this option is available.
The successful proponent will need to extract and load fuel system information into our
PeopleSoft Financial and Hansen Work Order Management systems. Proponents should
provide information about the fuel system application, database and data export capabilities
so Richmond IT staff can evaluate ease of use in exporting data for report generation and/or
interfacing to our Corporate systems.
a) City Hall
Printers (100)
Hardware: HP Laserjet
Netcard: HP Jet Direct Card
Internet
Hardware: Citrix Win Server
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b) Works Yard
Printers (35)
Hardware: HP Laserjet
Netcard: HP Jet Direct Card
PeopleSoft
• Public Sector Financials 8.4
• Human Resources / Payroll 8.0
• Oracle 7.3.4.2
(It should be noted that the City is currently in the process of upgrading HRMS application from
v8.0 to v8.9)
(It should be noted that the City is currently in the process of developing a migration strategy
from v 7.7 to v 8.0)
Hummingbird
• Document Management System 5.1.0.5
• SQL Server 6.5
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The City utilized a standard business intelligence product/suite that supports many different
data repositories, including parameter driven reporting, OLAP reporting, alerts, scorecards
and dashboards, providing one view of enterprise data. Users will be able to analyze their
business data as required, rather than calling for custom reports. Reporting will be delivered
in a web-based format. Integration with existing tools is paramount in providing end users
with the information they need. Currently, the Corporate Reporting standard is done using
the Information Builders WebFOCUS and iWay ETL v7.1 products for real-time reporting
and system integration.
• Must be able to support for Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems, and be
compatible with Standards-based, Web architecture.
• Must be able to provide an extensive user/group security model
• Must be able to provide seamless integration to existing applications (e.g. Peoplesoft
Finance, Peoplesoft HCM, HANSEN, ESRI GIS.) and be able to provide direct access to
data created/maintained by these applications.
• Must be able to produce all types of reports – ad hocs, queries, focus business reports,
batch type production reports with formats such as charts; lists, cross tabs and multi-
page statement layout delivered to many users.
• Must be able to integrate heterogeneous data from different source to produce a single
report
• Must provide the report bursting capability that can perform a single execution of a
report, sections the report as required, and distributes the sections to the appropriate
recipients based on report content. Distributions must be done via E-mail.
• Must be easy-to-use and requires minimal training and programming effort; preferred no
IT involvement when creating reports.
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• Provide intuitive and user-friendly interface and be able to customize the reporting
interface that supports dynamic/cascading parameters.
• Must be able to support for Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems
The City will require training on proposed systems to suit the range of users at the City of
Richmond. All training will be conducted on-site at City of Richmond facilities.
Provide an efficient fuel management and accounting system for fuel related expenses,
which, is not limited to but includes:
• Provide system integration to PeopleSoft Financial v8.4 and Hansen v7.7 on fuel
costs and usage.
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• Provide an efficient fuel management and account system for fuel related expenses
• The Fuel Dispensing & Management System must be a fully automated system with the
options of manual override when required.
• The system must have safeguards in place to ensure accurate information (i.e.:
mileage/hours, employee #, unit # etc.) is correct before dispensing fuels.
• The system must have mileage/ hour’s ranges built within the system for various classes
of vehicles and equipment. The parameters of the ranges must also have the ability to be
changed by the system’s administer when required.
• The City of Richmond requires bidders to provide information regarding how their
system is equipped for GPS capabilities.
• The Fuel Dispensing & Management System must not be a “key system” and must be a
“user-friendly” based system with functionality to be fully outlined regarding how the
system is to be activated; preference will be given to a fully electronic system with an
“automatic vehicle recognition system” that integrates with the vehicles ECM. Bidders
are requested to provide detailed procedures and the process of installing their product
on the vehicles and equipment.
• The Fuel Dispensing & Management System must have security parameters that are
outlined and provided within the RFP. Including detailed information and procedures for
the systems ability of lockout.
• The Fuel Dispensing & Management System must have the ability to provide various
fuel types to one unit (i.e. when a vehicle requires gasoline and diesel the system must
have the ability to authorize accessibility through one source.)
• The City of Richmond’s require the successful vendor’s product to integrate with the
City’s Hansen Operational Management system in providing an automated and
structured Preventative Maintenance Program for all classes of vehicles.
• The system must be capable of providing timed, meter hours and/or kilometres as a
trigger in activating the PM program.
• The City requires the flexibility within the fuel dispensing system to provide complete
fuelling services for outside agencies such as Police, Fire, Ambulance, Emergency
Services and other emergency related agencies as the City of Richmond plays a major
role in the community in the event of an emergency or disaster.
• The City of Richmond requires the bidders to explore the possibility of integrating the
City’s “employee id card system” into the scope of the project with regards to accessing
the Fuel Dispensing & Management System.
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• The bidders must provide a complete detailed evaluation of the City of Richmond’s
current fuel dispensing pumps; hardware and the in-ground tanks as well as their systems
to ensure the pumps and pumping system have compatibility with the bidders product.
• The bidders must provide an integration evaluation of the City of Richmond’s on-site
stationary emergency generator located at the City of Richmond’s Operations Yard. The
evaluation must outlined what is required to ensure integration of the new fuel
dispensing system has full functionally in the event of a power outage.
• The City of Richmond currently provides off-site fuelling at various locations through a
“Tidy Tank” program.
• The bidders must provide detailed information regarding how the “off-site” fuelling will
be recorded, accessed and charged-out.
• The City of Richmond requires the bidders to provide information and a demonstration
of their fuel inventory software within their system for monitoring fuel inventory and in
providing flexibility in ordering inventory’s through the automated software directly
with the fuel suppliers.
• The City of Richmond requires the bidders to provide site-visit demonstrations of their
fully functional Fuel Dispensing & Management System at local locations for the City’s
Fuel Dispensing & Management System Team for evaluation purposes.
• The bidders are to provide the City of Richmond with information regarding any
additional systems hardware and portable hardware requirements for their Fuel
Dispensing & Management System.
The Contractor shall coordinate work start with the City’s Electrical Services Department
Contact: Dermott Pitts (604) 244-1269, to ensure all required electrical equipment and all
other considerations have been attended to.
The project is to be completed by April 2007 with the project commencing as soon as
possible in January 2007.
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Your submission should include project schedule indicating steps to be undertaken and
estimate of time from start to finish of the upgrade
Describe how you intend to install the upgraded equipment so as not to interrupt the flow of
gasoline or diesel fuel.
All proponents are required to provide the following information with their submissions, and
in the order that follows:
• A Corporate profile of their firm outlining its history, philosophy and target market.
Itemized costs for equipment, supplies, software and any other costs associated with
implementing the required dispersement and management system. Proponents must
include information regarding a fixed price service agreement after the initial full
labour and material warranty period including costs associated with upgrades
available and/or required.
A detailed project methodology explaining each project task including what will be
expected of both the vendor and the City with respect to each task.
Team Composition – a complete listing of all key personnel who will be assigned to
this project. This will include their relevant experience, qualifications for this
project, roles and responsibilities, leadership, etc., in addition to their availability for
this project.
A detailed proposal of what will be delivered, including the expected outcome and
benefits to the City of Richmond.
A complete definition of the process that will be employed to meet the objectives of
this project, eg., approach to be taken
A minimum of three (3) client references from projects of a similar size and scope.
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The successful proponent will enter into a contract for services with the City based upon the
information contained in this request for proposal and the successful proponents submission
and any modifications thereto.
Proposals shall be evaluated to determine the best value offered to the City against
conformance, but not limited, to the following criteria:
Project Deliverables
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Note: Receipt of this completed form will assist us in calling for future bids. Please complete Quotation/Proposal/Tender No.
and submit this form prior to the closing date and time as shown on the Request for 2923P
Quotation/Proposal/Tender form.
Please remember to include Quotation/Proposal/Tender No. at right.