Master Services Agreement

Through consecutive professional service agreements beginning in 2005, this partnership has created one of the most standardized and robust automation platforms in the industry. Sweetwater Authority is setting the standard for water control system design and management.

Prior to EA’s engagement, the Authority had no formal system to plan, validate or track modifications to their SCADA system. This organizational oversight led to major reliability concerns including a severe alarm condition that did not trigger an alarm in SCADA, yet posed a major public health risk.

EA was initially tasked with addressing several specific needs like SCADA alarming and data validation, but quickly progressed to comprehensive controls system design, long-term automation consulting, and development of a standards portfolio for the Authority.

The current standards portfolio includes capital project system I&C design standards and review, control panel design, SCADA equipment and components, networking, IT policy, virtualization, PLC code, HMI graphics, process control methodology, data storage, MES, water quality reporting, and operator training standards. EA maintains all of these resources in the Authority’s source control system and supports the Authority in enforcing their standards in new capital improvement projects and interim system changes.