Notice of Intent - Engineering Education Controls Systems

The Utah Valley University is seeking to purchase control systems training equipment for higher education, specifically two Model 205 Torsion Disk Apparatus and two Model 210 Rectilinear Apparatus from Educational Control Products. The university intends to negotiate and award the contract to this sole source supplier due to their unique products that meet the instructional and accreditation needs of the university's College of Engineering and Technology. The equipment is required for controls and system dynamics courses and laboratory, and alternative solutions were evaluated but found to be insufficient. • The equipment is specifically designed for advanced controls education and enables experiments in system identification, classical and modern control, vibration analysis, and real-time feedback control. • The hardware integrates seamlessly with the supplier's proprietary control software, which supports real-time data acquisition, controller implementation, and repeatable experimentation. • The equipment allows students to physically modify inertia, stiffness, damping, and mass parameters, and to observe how control algorithms affect real mechanical systems.