Springfield advances $12.8 million advanced-metering contract for city utility
Springfield’s Committee of the Whole placed an ordinance on its July 28 agenda that would authorize a major advanced-metering communications purchase for City Water, Light and Power.
The proposed ordinance, listed as Ordinance 2026-346 in the committee’s meeting summary, would accept Landis+Gyr Technology Inc.’s proposal No. 25-10 for an advanced metering infrastructure communications system. The agreement would be authorized at an amount not to exceed $12,799,831.51 over a 15-year period.
The Office of Public Utilities requested the ordinance. City Water, Light and Power is the municipal utility involved in the proposed procurement.
Agreement would begin with a 36-month period
The ordinance would authorize a master service, license and services agreement with Landis+Gyr. The meeting summary describes an initial period of 36 months within the broader 15-year period covered by the maximum authorized amount.
The item concerns an advanced metering infrastructure communications system, rather than a general utility-services contract. The proposal therefore represents a technology procurement connected to the utility’s meter-communications infrastructure.
The stated $12,799,831.51 figure is a ceiling: the ordinance would authorize an amount “not to exceed” that total. The available record does not say how spending would be distributed during the initial 36 months or across the rest of the 15-year period.
Agenda consideration is not final enactment
The July 28 meeting summary establishes that the Committee of the Whole considered the ordinance as an agenda item. It does not establish that the City Council finally enacted the ordinance, that the agreement was signed, or that any payment was made.
No final council vote total is provided in the available source material. The record also does not provide an implementation timetable, details on when the communications system could be put into use, or expected customer savings.
Those distinctions matter because the ordinance is framed as an authorization for a proposed agreement. A committee agenda listing and consideration are separate procedural stages from final council passage, execution of a contract and implementation of the system.
What is known next
The available city record identifies the July 28 committee action but does not identify a subsequent council vote date, execution deadline or project start date. Any final action on the proposed Landis+Gyr agreement would need to be established by a later city record.
For now, the documented action is the Committee of the Whole’s consideration of an ordinance that would allow the Office of Public Utilities to move forward with the multiyear advanced-metering communications agreement, subject to the stated maximum amount and terms.
Sources
- Current Meeting: Committee of the Whole Meeting Summary, Office of the City Clerk, City of Springfield, Illinois
- Office of Budget and Management, City of Springfield, Illinois
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