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Frederick County countywide environmental hazard monitoring system

Frederick County is seeking an integrated countywide system to monitor environmental hazards and support emergency decision-making. - Government buyer: Frederick County, Maryland — Department of Emergency Preparedness, including the Division of Emergency Management; Office of Procurement & Contracting. The procurement excerpt names Sandra Grello, Grants Contract Manager. - OEM / named platform: Earth Networks — the proposed system must interoperate with the County’s existing Earth Networks Sferic Maps platform. No other OEMs or vendors are named in the solicitation materials. - Base equipment and software: - Two automated weather stations, one at Middletown Library and one at the Public Safety Training Facility (PSTF), with solar charging, cellular capability, display consoles, and platform integration. - One outdoor air-quality monitoring station at PSTF, measuring PM1, PM2.5, PM10, AQI, temperature, and relative humidity. - One secure, countywide web-based multi-hazard monitoring and decision-support platform, plus five user licenses: two administrative and three operational. - Platform capabilities and notable requirements: Near-real-time and historical data; mapping, dashboards, configurable alerts, camera imagery, equipment status, mobile access, data exports and APIs; role-based permissions and secure data sharing; and future expansion for flood, wildfire, roadway-warning, and other hazards. Proposals must address cybersecurity, data ownership and portability, backup communications and power, outage resilience, warranties, maintenance, and support. - Delivery services: Site assessment, equipment and communications installation, configuration and integration, testing and commissioning, training, and documentation. The contractor must provide a complete operational system and describe primary and backup communications, failover, recurring charges, and support. - Optional, separately priced expansions: Additional weather stations and sensors, rain systems, flood/stream and roadway-warning equipment, additional air-quality stations, fixed or PTZ cameras, fire-weather stations, towers and mounting structures, communications equipment, software modules such as lightning, satellite hotspots, or smoke analytics, additional licenses, and extended warranty, maintenance, or support. - Performance period: Approximately four months for the initial implementation, with four optional one-year renewals. The materials also request pricing for recurring subscriptions, licensing, communications, maintenance, and support. - Insurance: Contractors must meet the stated liability, workers’ compensation, technology errors and omissions, and cyber coverage requirements; coverage is subject to County risk-management approval before work begins.

Description

Frederick County Emergency Preparedness is seeking a contractor to provide a configurable, scalable countywide multi-hazard monitoring and decision-support system. Base work includes supplying and installing two automated weather stations and one outdoor air-quality monitoring station, along with a secure centralized software platform with five user licenses. The contractor must provide configuration, integration, communications, testing and commissioning, training, and documentation, including integration with the County’s existing Earth Networks Sferic Maps platform. Optional equipment, software modules, licenses, maintenance, and other components are to be priced separately.

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