The department of Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation plans to implement up to 75 new RWIS Environmental Sensing Stations (ESS) through an all-in-one turnkey approach that combines the purchase, installation, maintenance and operational requirements into one contract. Through a Request-for-Proposal (RFP) released in November 2004, the department solicited proposals for this turnkey concept. The decisions on the technologies needed, which manufacturer's equipment to use, who installs and maintains the RWIS stations, and how they fit in with the value-added meteorologists (VAM), were all left to the proponents. An innovative feature of the RFP was to solicit an alternate financial plan whereby the proponents could assume ownership of a portion of the RWIS network and market the services to other clients for revenue-generating. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E211426.
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