Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Local Area Distribution Controller (“LADC”) system project seeks to procure and implement a new “state of the art” distribution local area control system to augment the Company’s existing Electric Distribution Operations (“EDO”) Distribution System Management and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (“SCADA”) software solutions to support improved operations of Distributed Energy Resources (“DER”) in concert with existing SCADA-enabled devices. The scope of the LADC System project is to augment the Company’s existing systems for distribution system control. The principal systems involved are the Network Management System software supplied by Oracle and the SCADA system. The new LADC system must interoperate with these two systems to provide integrated control over a set of advanced DER in concert with traditional grid management devices such as capacitors, circuit breakers, switches, regulators and tap change transformers. The LADC system is considered a real time control and operational system for the Company. The LADC system should be considered as one subsystem within an overall emerging “system of systems” solution used by the Company to perform its role as a Distribution System Operator (DSO).