TAVA / City of LA DPW Bureau of Sanitation Engagement:
While no dollar figures were provided for this engagement, it can be inferred that it is indeed significant since JJ is on record as stating that he would announce Y2K related news only when it was "material". (In the past, seemingly, any Y2K contract was "material".)
However, with the ramp up of Y2K activity, even a multi-million dollar engagement may not qualify as "material".
Although it's difficult to ascertain the potential value of the City of LA DPW Bureau of Sanitation engagement, I believe it is quite substantial since it encompasses the Hyperion Treatment Plant (the largest of four such plants) in addition to "approximately 60 pumping stations".
Apparently the LA Dept. of Sanitation I/A phase began @ August 27, 1998 and is now moving into remediation -- some five months later.
LA Dept. of Sanitation Y2K Compliance (Embedded) Inventory Report (In Adobe Acrobat format.)
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Of 1053 embedded items listed here, only 54 (0.05%) were listed as being Y2K compliant.
City of Los Angeles Dept. of Public Works
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PUBLIC WORKS - EMBEDDED CHIP LISTS
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Assessing the level of Year 2000 compliancy of equipment or "embedded chip technology" (including information technology and telecommunications hardware, facility and plant equipment, and stand alone special purpose equipment such as diagnostic and laboratory equipment) and remediating any problems found is one of the most challenging aspects of the Y2K Project. The first step in the process is conducting a comprehensive inventory of facilities/equipment. This process is a labor intensive activity involving reviewing existing inventory records, conducting site reviews, and identifying a vendor(s) for each item. Once a vendor is identified an attempt is made to contact the vendor to determine if the particular item is Year 2000 compliant. In addition to vendor certification, it may be possible in some cases to actually test the equipment item for Year 2000 compliancy by setting its "internal clock" forward and operating the equipment.
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City of Los Angeles - Year 2000 Compliance Project
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Computing Environment
Like all large complex organizations, the City's business processes are largely dependent on computer systems and sophisticated plant, facility, laboratory and vehicular equipment.
Excluding the proprietary departments, the City has:
•some 18,000 Personal Computers (80% networked);
•an IBM mainframe 9672-R55 rated at 260 MIPS (millions of instructions per second);
•150 major enterprise business applications and some 5,000,000 lines of programming code;
•a vast telecommunications infrastructure;
•tens of thousands of fleet vehicles (including helicopters and fixed wing aircraft) and
•specialized equipment which are required for the delivery of essential public services, such as
•Police and Fire dispatch and communications,
•financial and human resource management,
•traffic management,
•materials warehousing and distribution,
•waste collection and disposal and
•street maintenance.
Similarly, the proprietary departments of Airports, Harbor and Water and Power have mainframe computers and networked Personal Computers as well as sophisticated plant, facility, telecommunications, vehicular and specialized equipment to support their operations.
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PROJECT BUDGET
The City's Y2K Project costs include project management; expenditures for the purchase of products and services related to various project activities including inventory/assessment, remediation and testing; diversion of existing staff and other resources from other planned functions; and contingency planning.
It should also be noted that the City operates with a distributed budget with individual departments controlling their operating budget subject to a work program and funding allocation approved by the Mayor and the City Council. As such the Y2K Project budget is not "located" in a single place within the City's overall budget. This distributed environment, the fact that many costs are diverted costs, and the pending completion of the embedded chip analysis makes it difficult to accurately portray all costs associated with the Y2K Project.
Currently, it is estimated that the City's Y2K Project, including the proprietary departments, will cost approximately $100,000,000.
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--Dennis |
