(1) Vendor needs to provide energy management service to the government authority located in Providence, RI.
- Recommend short and long-term energy procurement strategies for energy resources.
- Assist the city to develop comprehensive strategic plans that are consistent with its climate commitments and environmental sustainability initiatives.
- Find and recommend energy sources and strategies that reduce the city's carbon footprint in the short, medium, and long term at competitive prices. Demonstrate cost savings to the city based on recommended alternatives vs. current state and project those costs over a reasonable amount of time.
- Provide continuous energy market monitoring and analysis to advise and assist the city with energy procurement decision making and risk analysis.
- Identify energy project funding and financing opportunities and options, including grants, incentives and rebates and advise the city as appropriate.
- Advise the city regarding industry trends on supply-side and demand-side energy opportunities.
- Advise and guide city staff regarding demand response programs, assist with preparation and implementation of a program to reduce the city's energy loads during peak times in the ISO-new grid system or peak electrical time-of-use rates from the local utility.
- Manage utility bill processing and payment to include bill auditing to ensure applicable rates, tariffs and costs are accurate and correctly applied, and to identify and resolve billing errors.
- Use utility billing data to track the city's energy and utility costs, consumption and emissions performance, including greenhouse gas and carbon footprint with respect to the budget forecast. Provide carbon-inventorying services as needed or requested. Inventorying may include data aggregation, data sorting and cleaning and data conversion into emissions.
- Provide a suite of dashboards to allow fine grained reporting about utility bill information relevant to a variety of staff across the city organization. Data must include, but not be limited to, detailed information about accounts paid, information about billing errors and corrections, digital copies of bills, energy usage: kWh and kW, ability to show calendarized consumption data as well as weather normalized data, carbon emissions related to energy use. The dashboards will be used to make informed decisions about energy efficiency and renewable energy investments.
- Provide a platform that automatically imports relevant data to energy star portfolio manager for select utility accounts.
(2) All question must be submitted no later than March 09, 2023.
(3) A contract period will be for one year.
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