The City of Lloydminster is looking to replace a survey-grade GPS unit.
Council heard a presentation at the March 10 council meeting about replacing the unit.
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Engineering currently operates three GPS units. Two units were purchased in 2012 and one was purchased in 2014. Their expected life cycles are between five and 10 years.
The city is looking to replace on rover unit and two data collectors.
“It’s a computer that carries out a pole, and it tells them their exact pinpoint location, gives them their elevation and all that,” said Mayor Gerald Aalbers.
Aalbers says using this tool gives them a more precise measurement without having to manually do it.
“This is the pinpoint without someone trying to find a surveyed pin and measuring with a tape measure, he said.
The piece of equipment is vital to today’s measuring operations.
“A very, very useful piece of equipment,” said Aalbers.
Council passed the motion to award the sole source to Cansel Survey Equipment Inc., in the amount of $53,727.40.
Cansel is the only listed dealer of Trimble Geospatial products within Canada. If the city did go with another vendor, they’d have to change survey equipment brands resulting in increased costs.
Currently, Cansel provides the City of Lloydminster with the use of its permanent GPS base station, which is located at city hall.
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