Washington County is seeking a vendor to provide an advanced Energy Management Information System (EMIS) to enhance its energy data integration, analytics, and utility bill management. The EMIS should ensure secure data transfer between county-owned meters and control systems with the vendor’s platform, supporting the integration of electricity, gas, and water meter data by building. The system must accommodate eGuage platform exports and facilitate near real-time API-based data ingestion at intervals of at least 10 minutes, with a storage capacity of 36 months minimum. Virtual meter consolidation, long-term historical data storage (minimum of five years, with data trended at up to 15-minute intervals), and robust display options for data clusters ranging from 10 minutes to one year are required. Integration with industry-standard protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, OPC, CSV, RDBMS, SQL, and weather data sources, including automatic degree-day calculations, is essential.

Quality assurance features are critical, including automatic data quality checks for gaps, spikes, and flatline detection, as well as immediate owner notifications in case of anomalies. The EMIS should support automated retrieval and manual entry of utility bills with customizable data fields, enabling detailed cost allocation for tenant billing, energy cost recovery, and savings analysis through benchmarking, weather normalization, and calendar month data alignment. The system must include tools for greenhouse gas emissions tracking with customizable conversion factors, as well as support for on-site renewables and additional commodities like travel and fleet.

Interval meter data analytics must offer flexible charting and tracking on a sub-hourly basis, unit normalization based on key operational factors, ESPM integration, baseline modeling, predictive anomaly detection, and user-defined thresholds with alarm tracking. The system should allow for configurable dashboards for both public and administrative access, enable self-service data management, embed views in the county website, and support energy use prediction based on factors such as weather and occupancy, including the establishment of multiple consumption baselines.

The EMIS should operate as a SaaS platform, ensuring county data ownership, with robust IT and hosting requirements such as long-term data archival, backup, downloadable historical data, and compliance with county cybersecurity standards. Role-based access controls with configurable permissions by location and building, as well as strong password requirements, are mandatory. Interested vendors must submit all questions regarding the project by February 26, 2026.