The Metropolitan District (MDC) is inviting qualified companies to submit formal bids to furnish various sized water meters, up to 2”, to the MDC as specified in this solicitation. All meters furnished under this Contract shall be solid state electromagnetic or ultrasonic type 1 water meters and shall be assembled and tested within the United States. The water meters and encoder type registers including connectors and remote receptacles shall be a design and construction that can be interrogated for data collection by the District’s existing remote reading system. All water meters supplied under this contract MUST be compatible with the ITRON Cellular 500W-R+ ERT and ready to connect without any additional programming. The selected contractor will be expected to enter into a contract for the provision of services embodying the substance of the specifications stated herein.