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Page 2 of 3 <br />DISCUSSION <br />The agreement with West Yost includes the following tasks: <br />• AWIA Cybersecurity Assessment Crosswalk and Gap Analysis: This task will evaluate <br />cybersecurity findings from the City’s 2025 America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) <br />Cyber Risk and Resilience Assessment and 2024 SCADA Management Plan. This <br />effort will identify gaps and establish an updated cybersecurity baseline to inform and <br />prioritize the subsequent development of standards. <br />• SCADA Standards Development: This task will develop formal SCADA standards <br />addressing instrumentation, hardware, programming, tagging, and database <br />conventions, graphics, alarm management, reporting, and version control. <br />• Basis of Design for Near-Term System Resilience Projects: This task will investigate <br />and define the scope, level of effort, and planning-level cost required to implement the <br />near-term system resilience projects. This task will not include actual execution of the <br />projects by West Yost; rather, it will establish the technical framework, design criteria, <br />and budgetary estimates for subsequent execution by the City. <br /> <br />The agreement with West Yost includes a $55,000 allowance for additional services related to <br />the tasks described above, upon written authorization from the City’s project manager. <br /> <br />Staff has determined that West Yost is the only firm capable of performing this work without <br />introducing unacceptable operational and security risks. As the author of the City’s SCADA <br />Master Plan and related system assessments, West Yost possesses exclusive institutional <br />knowledge of the City’s specific SCADA architecture and control logic. Because this scope <br />involves highly sensitive operational technology and critical utility control systems, engaging a <br />firm unfamiliar with the City’s proprietary configurations would necessitate a redundant, high- <br />risk period of reverse engineering and vulnerability assessment. <br /> <br />EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY <br />Implementation of the SCADA standards project supports long-term protection of community <br />water resources. The project contributes to improved water quality, enhanced system <br />reliability, and increased resilience. <br /> <br />OUTREACH <br />Not applicable, as this item is a routine matter of City business. <br /> <br />STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT <br />Not applicable, as this item is a routine matter of City business. <br /> <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br />This project is funded and has been budgeted for FY by the Water Enterprise Operating Fund <br />– Professional Services (42040602-430101). <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Page 108 of 923