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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) seeks to improve the safety and sustainability of statewide transportation infrastructure through the utilization of Road Weather Information Stations (RWIS) and meteorological forecasting services. 1.2 ALDOT is interested in procuring statewide weather services for all 67 counties. 1.3 These services will be used in support of a variety of applications from daily routine activities to emergency maintenance operations. 1.4 This Specification Document presents the necessary information for Vendors to submit their solutions and cost proposals to provide statewide meteorological services and RWIS data hosting. 1.5 The Vendor solution must be a secure web-based weather briefing site that provides weather conditions and forecasts, data, and ALDOT RWIS data. 1.6 The Vendor solution must include a mobile companion app. 1.7 This service will provide designated ALDOT employees with weather and road weather intelligence. 1.8 ALDOT employees must have access to Vendor weather forecasters in advance of impactful weather and events. 1.9 ALDOT exercises road weather management strategies as defined under the “Weather Savvy Roads” initiative of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Every Day Counts (EDC) 4 program. Additionally, ALDOT will continue to expand these strategies as defined under the “Weather-Responsive Management Strategies” initiative in the FHWA EDC-5 program. 1.10 Seasonal ongoing training for ALDOT employees will be provided as part of the contract and is designed to educate regional teams on the latest weather technologies and improvements. 1.11 Due to the nature of this project, award will be made on an “All or None” basis to the recommended vendor, who during our bid evaluation is found to be the lowest responsible bidder. 1.12 The term “exclusive” is utilized to safeguard ALDOT specific data, hardware, or software access, while reserving the authority to share the aforementioned at the discretion of ALDOT with others.

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

2.0 WORK SCOPE 2.1 RWIS / Mobile RWIS 2.1.1 Vendor must provide services to access, host, and archive ALDOT’s RWIS / Mobile RWIS data on the Amazon Web Services Cloud (AWS); or equal, which provides continuous reliability and stability with elastic and geographic load balancing. The servers must be current technology and reside in multiple data centers to ensure maximum uptime. The data must display in real-time within the Vendor solution for ALDOT operational use and can be made available to partners through an API. Vendor must maintain an archive of the data for up to 8 years. 2.1.2 RWIS / Mobile RWIS data products must be incorporated into the Vendor solution for exclusive access by ALDOT. ALDOT will exercise the ability to share this data with responsible stakeholders, as deemed appropriate to support its’ mission. 2.1.3 API Transactions – ALDOT must be allotted 100 million transactions per month for the duration of the agreement. An API transaction is measured as one request to the AWS cloud to retrieve a specified RWIS / Mobile RWIS data product. While 100 million transactions are a liberal monthly allotment, excessive API transactions can become costly. Vendor will work with ALDOT partners to ensure successful, economic usage. 2.2 Vendor solution 2.2.1 Vendor must include up to 275 user seats for designated ALDOT users. Each user seat license includes: 2.2.1.1 Access to Vendor’s exclusive CUSTOM ALDOT weather data package. See Exhibit ‘A’ for more details. 2.2.1.2 Access to Vendor’s solution website with individual use on three (3) concurrent devices. 2.2.1.3 Custom user stored preferences, map, data views, and alerting. 2.2.1.4 The Vendor’s mobile application for iOS and Android mobile phones. The app must be available for free download from the Apple and Android App stores. (Users log in with their subscription credentials) 2.2.1.5 Vendor solution is supported on all commonly used web browsers (ie. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari, etc…)

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

2.2.2 RWIS / Mobile RWIS data must be displayed as detailed in Exhibit ‘A’ (Transportation Tab). 2.2.3 Vendor must provide exclusive custom location-based alerting for up to 10 locations specified by the user. Users may select the locations and alert types (See Exhibit ‘B’ for details) to be notified on. Users may also choose between email and/or text notification. 2.2.4 Vendor Mobile Application for exclusive ALDOT subscription use must provide the following: 2.2.4.1 Live Weather Data 2.2.4.1.1 Single Site Radar 2.2.4.1.1.1 Radar data 2.2.4.1.1.2 Velocity data 2.2.4.1.1.3 Severe winds 2.2.4.1.1.4 Severe threats 2.2.4.1.2 US Weather 2.2.4.1.2.1 Current conditions 2.2.4.1.2.2 National IR Satellite 2.2.4.1.2.3 SPC Day 1 Large Hail outlook 2.2.4.1.2.4 SPC Day 1 probability 2.2.4.1.2.5 SPC Day 1 Damaging Wind probability 2.2.4.1.2.6 SPC Day 1 Convective outlook 2.2.4.1.2.7 SPC Day 2 Convective outlook 2.2.4.1.2.8 SPC Day 3 Convective outlook 2.2.4.1.3 US Radar 2.2.4.1.3.1 US High-Res radar 2.2.4.1.3.2 Future radar 2.2.4.1.4 Tropical 2.2.4.1.4.1 Tropical track 2.2.4.1.4.2 Tropical track forecasts 2.2.4.1.4.3 Lightning data 2.2.4.1.4.4 NWS Watches and Warnings 2.2.4.1.4.5 Critical weather indicators 2.2.4.1.4.6 Vendor Storm Vectors 2.2.4.1.4.7 Storm reports 2.2.4.2 2 map styles – Standard and Dark 2.2.4.3 Opacity slider 2.2.4.4 Logo Selection & Removal

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

2.2.4.5 Account login/logout 2.2.4.6 Application Tools 2.2.4.6.1 Product selection tool 2.2.4.6.2 Radar site selection tool 2.2.4.6.3 Telestration tool 2.2.4.6.4 Distance tool 2.2.4.6.5 Legends tool 2.2.4.6.6 Map tools 2.3 Vendor Support 2.3.1 Technical support must be provided via phone and email support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Technical support is provided for Vendor solution website operations, mobile app use and Vendor data products. 2.3.2 Live forecast services must be provided for major weather events as outlined below. In addition to the forecast services, a designated list of twenty (20) ALDOT managers must have phone access to a Vendor support representative for critical weather advice during severe events. 2.3.2.1 For each of the 10 ALDOT Areas, Vendor must provide a warning forecast when the following criteria are met: 2.3.2.1.1 /Ice is expected to cause pavement problems (6- 12 Hours lead) 2.3.2.1.2 Severe weather as defined by the Storm Prediction Center as an enhanced risk (12 Hour lead) 2.3.2.1.3 Tropical weather (24-36 Hours lead) 2.3.2.2 Warning messages must contain: 2.3.2.2.1 Type and amount of precipitation 2.3.2.2.2 Precipitation start time and end time (Use a 2-hour window) 2.3.2.2.3 Pavement temperature at the start of the event and trend during the event (Winter Only) 2.3.2.2.4 Wind speed and direction 2.3.2.3 Updated Warning messages must be issued ONLY if any one of the following criteria are met: 2.3.2.3.1 Precipitation is expected to change from ice to snow or snow to ice, and not previously forecasted, 2.3.2.3.2 The start time has changed by 2 hours or more, 2.3.2.3.3 The snow amount has changed by 2 inches or more, 2.3.2.3.4 Snow/Ice event is no longer expected to materialize,

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

2.3.2.3.5 Severe weather is no longer expected to materialize, or conditions worsen. 2.3.2.4 Updated Warning messages must contain: 2.3.2.4.1 Type and amount of precipitation, 2.3.2.4.2 Precipitation start time and end time (Use a 2-hour window), 2.3.2.4.3 Pavement temperature at the start of the event and trend during the event (Winter Only), 2.3.2.4.4 Wind speed and direction. 2.3.2.5 Warning message delivery method must be as follows: 2.3.2.5.1 Warning messages must be sent 24/7 by email based on ALDOT defined Areas, 2.3.2.5.2 During non-business hours, a call must also be placed to a designated individual in each ALDOT Area for warning notification. 2.3.3 Every Day Counts 2.3.3.1 In conformance with section 1.9 of this specification, the Vendor must participate and support ALDOT with the development, implementation, and execution of the defined strategies. This must include, but not be limited to participation in conference calls, NWS chat, emails, etc. as determined by ALDOT. 2.3.3.2 The Vendor must participate in this process; as well as assist ALDOT with technology recommendations / deployments to support this effort.

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

ALDOT Areas

North East Central West Central Southeast Southwest Region Region Region Region Region Tuscumbia Area Birmingham Area Fayette Area Montgomery Area Grove Hill Area Lauderdale Blount Marion Dallas Marengo Colbert Jefferson Winston Autauga Choctaw Franklin St. Clair Lamar Elmore Washington Lawrence Shelby Fayette Lee Clarke Limestone Walker Lowndes Wilcox Morgan Pickens Montgomery Monroe Greene Macon Russell Bullock Butler Guntersville Area Alex City Area Tuscaloosa Area Troy Area Mobile Area Madison Calhoun Tuscaloosa Pike Conecuh Jackson Cleburne Sumter Barbour Escambia DeKalb Talladega Hale Covington Mobile Marshall Clay Perry Coffee Baldwin Cullman Randolph Bibb Dale Etowah Coosa Chilton Henry Cherokee Tallapoosa Geneva Chambers Houston Crenshaw

3.0 TRAINING 3.1 To assist ALDOT users and keep them up to date on weather technologies, Vendor will provide ongoing training sessions for each Region’s personnel. 3.2 Vendor must provide an onboarding webinar for all users. This webinar will provide instruction on how to access the solution and brief overview of the tools and functionalities. This will provide an acclamation period for users while the Vendor completes implementation of the solution. 3.3 Vendor must provide on-site training for all 5 Regions to compliment the onboarding and refresh user knowledge of the service. Each Region will receive a minimum 2-hour training session. 3.4 Ongoing remote training will be provided twice a year and coordinated through ALDOT senior management. Training sessions will last 1 – 2 hours long and will cover all Regions simultaneously. Training is designed to refresh user’s knowledge of the Vendor solution, mobile app, and best practices for the upcoming season.

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

4.0 Bid package documentation requirements. (NOTE: This information must be included with your submitted bid.) 4.1 The Vendor must provide a Certification statement that all technical requirements can be met and are readily available; thus, reducing any delay associated with customizations or development. 4.2 The Vendor must provide an implementation schedule to illustrate the following project milestones. This schedule must address full implementation within 30 days of Notice-to-Proceed. 4.2.1 Project kickoff meeting 4.2.2 Web based vendor solution 4.2.3 Mobile companion app 4.2.4 Onboarding webinar for all users 4.2.5 Establishment of User accounts and successful login 4.2.6 Integration of RWIS / Mobile RWIS hardware 4.2.7 Delivery of fully integrated and usable solution 4.3 The on-site training will be exempted from the 30-day period; however, a training plan must be developed and scheduled within the 30-day period.

5.0 BUSINESS SUMMARY 5.1 Vendor must host and store ALDOT RWIS data. 5.2 ALDOT RWIS data must be hosted on AWS or approved equal. 5.3 ALDOT RWIS data must be displayed in the Vendor solution website along with other Vendor weather data. 5.4 ALDOT RWIS data must be available through AWS API to designated ALDOT research, education, and public partners. 5.5 Vendor must provide a private access version of the Vendor solution website for ALDOT. 5.6 275 ALDOT user seats are provided with the subscription. 5.7 ALDOT will manage and authorize the list of users. 5.8 ALDOT RWIS data must be displayed along with Vendor weather data. 5.9 Alerting for up to 10 locations is included with each user seat. 5.10 A Vendor solution companion mobile app is included with each user seat. 5.11 Technical support must be available 24/7 for website and app users via email and phone. 5.12 Weather forecast support must be provided for major weather events as outlined.

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

5.13 24/7 access to a Vendor forecaster must be available during major weather events. Access will be limited to 20 designated ALDOT employees. 5.14 Vendor must provide on-site training to launch the new service. Sessions will take place for all five Regions. 5.15 Ongoing training will be provided two times per year and coordinated through ALDOT senior management. 5.16 Billing must be quarterly, in arrears.

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

6.0 EXHIBIT ‘A’ – DATA PACKAGE 6.1 Transportation Tab 6.1.1 RWIS Current Conditions 6.1.1.1 RWIS data locations must be displayed as sensor data on the map. The location should be represented by a colored dot as follows: 6.1.1.1.1 Green if Surface Temperature >38F 6.1.1.1.2 Yellow if Surface Temperature is 35-38F 6.1.1.1.3 Orange if Surface Temperature is 32-34F 6.1.1.1.4 Red if Surface Temperature is <32F 6.1.1.1.5 No color if Surface Temperature is missing 6.1.1.2 Station Overview 6.1.1.2.1 Air Temperature 6.1.1.2.2 Surface Temperature 6.1.1.2.3 Dew Point Temperature 6.1.1.2.4 Relative Humidity 6.1.1.2.5 Level of Grip 6.1.1.2.6 Time 6.1.1.2.7 Visibility 6.1.1.3 Display a 24-hour graph of the surface temperature, surface state, and wind variables 6.1.1.4 Camera History 6.1.1.5 History Table 6.1.1.5.1 Air Temperature 6.1.1.5.2 Surface Temperature 6.1.1.5.3 Dew Point Temperature 6.1.1.5.4 Relative Humidity 6.1.1.5.5 Level of Grip 6.1.1.5.6 Time 6.1.1.5.7 Wind Speed 6.1.1.5.8 Max. Wind Speed 6.1.1.5.9 Wind Direction 6.2 Weather Tab 6.2.1 Current Conditions 6.2.2 7-Day Forecast 6.2.3 NWS Watches and Warnings

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

6.2.4 Surface Analysis 6.2.5 Temperature 6.2.6 Wind Speed 6.2.7 Visibility/ 6.3 Radar Tab 6.3.1 Hi-Res Radar 6.3.2 Standard Radar 6.3.3 Canadian Radar 6.3.4 Future Radar 6.3.5 24-Hour Rainfall Accumulation 6.3.6 Echo Tops 6.4 Single Site Radar Tab 6.4.1 Radar Location Codes 6.4.2 Super-Res Reflectivity 6.4.3 Velocity 6.4.4 Severe Threats 6.4.5 Severe Winds 6.5 Satellite Tab 6.5.1 Infrared 6.5.1.1 National 6.5.1.2 Pacific 6.5.1.3 Atlantic 6.5.1.4 Global 6.5.2 Visible 6.5.2.1 National 6.5.2.2 Pacific 6.5.2.3 Atlantic 6.6 Vendor Forecast Models Tab 6.6.1 Temperature 6.6.1.1 Surface 6.6.1.2 850 mb (~5k feet) 6.6.2 Dew Point 6.6.3 Relative Humidity 6.6.3.1 850 mb (~5k feet) 6.6.3.2 700 mb (~10k feet) 6.6.3.3 500 mb (~18 feet) 6.6.4 Wind

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

6.6.4.1 Surface 6.6.4.2 850 mb (~5k feet) 6.6.4.3 700 mb (~10k feet) 6.6.4.4 500 mb (~18 feet) 6.6.4.5 250 mb (~34k feet) 6.6.5 Wind Speed 6.6.5.1 Surface 6.6.5.2 850 mb (~5k feet) 6.6.5.3 700 mb (~10k feet) 6.6.5.4 500 mb (~18 feet) 6.6.5.5 250 mb (~34k feet) 6.6.6 Cloud Cover 6.6.6.1 Low 6.6.6.2 Mid 6.6.6.3 High 6.6.6.4 Total 6.6.7 US Forecast Precipitation 6.6.8 Precipitation Accumulation 6.6.9 Snow Accumulation 6.6.10 Sea Level Pressure 6.6.11 Potential 6.6.12 Storm Rotation Potential 6.7 Severe Tab 6.7.1 Local Storm Reports 6.7.2 ENTLN Lightning (Cloud to Ground) 6.7.3 Storm Prediction Center Outlooks 6.7.3.1 Outlook Day 1 6.7.3.2 Hail Day 1 6.7.3.3 Wind Day 1 6.7.3.4 Tornado Day 1 6.7.3.5 Outlook Day 2 6.7.3.6 Outlook Day 3 6.7.4 Critical Weather Indicators 6.7.5 US Damaging Wind 6.7.6 Storm Tracks 6.7.6.1 Tornado Likely 6.7.6.2 Tornado Possible

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

6.7.6.3 High Winds 6.7.6.4 Extreme Hail 6.7.6.5 Hail 6.7.7 NWS Storm Tracks 6.7.7.1 Tornado Vortex Signature 6.7.7.2 Mesocyclone 6.7.7.3 Severe Hail 6.7.7.4 Hail 6.7.7.5 Storm 6.8 Tropical Tab 6.8.1 Official Tropical Track Forecasts 6.8.2 Hurricane Hunter 6.8.3 Tropical Track Model Forecasts 6.9 Marine Tab 6.9.1 Marine Zone Forecasts 6.9.1.1 Coastal Waters 6.9.1.2 Off Shore Waters 6.9.1.3 High Seas 6.9.2 Buoys 6.9.3 Hi-Res Sea Surface Temperatures 6.9.4 Wave Height 6.10 Road Conditions Tab 6.10.1 Roadway Conditions 6.10.2 Road Conditions Forecast 6.10.3 Current and Forecast Pavement Temperature

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

7.0 EXHIBIT ‘B’ - ALERTS 7.1 Vendor Exclusive Alerts 7.1.1 Twisting storm approaching 7.1.2 Dangerous storm approaching 7.1.3 Lightning in area (5, 8, 10, 12, and 15 miles and 30-minute All Clear) 7.1.4 Storms in area 7.1.5 Hail arriving within 15 minutes 7.1.6 Rain start within 30 minutes 7.1.7 Snow start within 30 minutes 7.1.8 Wintry Mix start within 30 minutes 7.2 National Weather Service Alerts 7.2.1 Severe Weather Alerts 7.2.1.1 NWS Flash Warning 7.2.1.2 NWS 7.2.1.3 NWS 7.2.1.4 NWS 7.2.1.5 NWS Thunderstorm Watch 7.2.1.6 NWS Thunderstorm Warning 7.2.2 Winter Weather Alerts 7.2.2.1 NWS Frost Advisory 7.2.2.2 NWS Lake Effect Snow Advisory 7.2.2.3 NWS 7.2.2.4 NWS 7.2.2.5 NWS Warning 7.2.2.6 NWS Watch 7.2.2.7 NWS Winter 7.2.2.8 NWS Warning 7.2.2.9 NWS 7.2.2.10 NWS 7.2.2.11 NWS 7.2.2.12 NWS 7.2.2.13 NWS 7.2.2.14 NWS 7.2.2.15 NWS 7.2.2.16 NWS Snow Advisory 7.2.2.17 NWS Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Road Weather Information Station (RWIS) hosting and Meteorological Weather Forecasting Service

7.2.3 Hurricane / Tropical Storm 7.2.3.1 NWS Hurricane Watch 7.2.3.2 NWS Inland Tropical Storm Warning 7.2.3.3 NWS 7.2.3.4 NWS Tropical Storm Warning 7.2.3.5 NWS Inland Hurricane Warning 7.2.3.6 NWS Tropical Storm Watch 7.2.3.7 NWS 7.2.3.8 NWS Hurricane Warning 7.2.3.9 NWS Inland Hurricane Watch 7.2.4 Fog Alerts 7.2.4.1 NWS Freezing Fog Advisory 7.2.4.2 NWS Dense Fog Advisory 7.2.5 Wind Alerts 7.2.5.1 NWS High Wind Warning 7.2.5.2 NWS 7.2.5.3 NWS 7.2.5.4 NWS 7.2.5.5 NWS 7.2.5.6 NWS High Wind Watch 7.2.5.7 NWS 7.2.5.8 NWS Blowing Dust Advisory 7.2.6 Hard Freeze Alerts 7.2.6.1 NWS Hard Freeze Watch 7.2.6.2 NWS Hard Freeze Warning 7.2.7 Heat Alerts 7.2.7.1 NWS 7.2.7.2 NWS 7.2.8 Marine Alerts 7.2.8.1 NWS Heavy Freezing Spray Warning 7.2.8.2 NWS Freezing Spray Advisory

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