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ADDENDUM NO. 1
SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT DOCUMENTS
Description of RFI 10156: Transit Passenger Counting System
OPENING DATE: 3:00 PM (Our Clock) May 13, 2025
To all prospective bidders under the specifications and contract documents described above, the
following changes/additions are hereby made and detailed in the following sections of this
addendum:
Exhibit 1 – Questions and Answers
Please contact Ed Bonnette, C.P.M., CPPB, Senior Buyer, at (970) 416-2247 or
ebonnette@fcgov.com with any questions regarding this addendum.
RECEIPT OF THIS ADDENDUM MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED BY A WRITTEN STATEMENT
ENCLOSED WITH THE PROPOSAL STATING THAT THIS ADDENDUM HAS BEEN
RECEIVED.
Financial Services
Purchasing Division
215 N. Mason St. 2nd Floor
PO Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
970.221.6775
fcgov.com/purchasing
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1) How many fixed-route vehicles are in your fleet, including spares?
Answer: 57
2) How many vehicles are equipped with APCs?
Answer: 57
3) What are the make/model(s) of APCs?
Answer: Clever Devices APCs (Receiver and Transmitter), Iris Infrared Intelligent
Sensors (only on electric vehicles).
4) Is raw APC data currently offloaded from your vehicles by Clever Devices? If not, how is
data transferred from the vehicles?
Answer: Yes, Clever Devices offloads this data.
5) Is your Clever Devices CAD/AVL system cloud hosted or on premise?
Answer: On premise
6) Are your APCs currently NTD certified?
Answer: Yes.
7) Are you going through a recertification process this year?
Answer: Yes.
8) For the RFP planned to be released in Q3 2025 are you anticipating the selected vendor
to complete NTD certification by the April 30, 2026 deadline?
Answer: No.
9) Do APC-equipped buses also have on-board security cameras? If so, what
make/model?
Answer: Yes, TSI Video:
• Nexus HVR
• Internal and External cameras (TSIP-07/17, TSIP-08/18)
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• 360 cameras (TSP-360-IR), TSI 8 Port PoE Switch
10) Do fixed-route buses have cellular routers? If so, what make/model?
Answer: Yes, CradlePoint IBR1700
11) Does the City own/manage the routers or are they managed through your CAD/AVL
vendor or other third party?
Answer: Managed by Transfort IT
12) Do the routers have GPS antennas connected today?
Answer: Yes
13) Do the routers have internet access (can we send data to the internet from inside the
bus?)
Answer: Yes
14) How many Ethernet ports (router and/or ethernet switch) are currently available on the
vehicles?
Answer: 5 ports on the routers, 2 open. Switches are only for security video use .
15) What is the anticipated RFP release date for this project?
Answer: The RFP is planned to be released in Q3 2025.
16) Does APC system need to be integrated with existing CAD/AVL platform?
Answer: Yes
17) What ITS hardware technology is currently on your buses?
Answer: See list below:
• TSI Nexus-HVR Mobile Digital Video Recorder
• TSI Slim Line IR Wedge 3MP IP Camera w/ Microphone [internal use]
• TSI Slim Line IR Wedge 3MP IP Camera [external use]
• TSI 360 IRM 12MP IP Camera
• TSI 8 Port PoE Switch
• Clever Devices IVN4/IVN5
• Clever Devices TCH
• Clever Devices APC Transmitter and Receiver /Iris APC
• Clever Devices On-Board LCD VMS Displays
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• CradlePoint IBR1700/IBR900 Router
18) Our system is hosted on Amazon, would a backup to your local server be sufficient?
Answer: Yes, though we would like to see more information /context in the proposal.
19) Would you consider a system that also replaces your CCTV system?
Answer: No
20) You have 45 buses of various lengths: 35 ft; 40 ft; 60 ft. What # of cameras do they
currently have?
Answer: 29ft, 35ft, and 40ft buses have 8 cameras. 60ft buses have 9 cameras.
21) How is the data from the buses transmitted to the main office currently? Do you need
us to provide a solution?
Answer: Over cellular/wifi connection through the router.