• Achieves significant long-tenn cost savings through reduced energy and water use, and related operating cost savings;
• Achieves an annual guarantee for cost savings for each year of the contract;
• Tum-key project design and implementation of improvements and updates to the City’s infrastructure;
• Upgrades old and/or inefficient systems;
• Maintains consistent and reasonable levels of occupant comfort;
• Maintains building functionality and compatibility with existing equipment;
• Improves utilization of technology to achieve optimum perfonnance and savings;
• Provides additional benefits that directly result from energy related services and capital improvements, reduced maintenance needs, improved indoor air quality, building improvements, etc.;
• Minimizes financial and technical risk to the City;
• Provides training to employees on maintenance and repair of equipment and controls;
Provides comprehensive funding solutions;
• Create, implement and fund innovative programs or measures within the overall project that create benefits and contribute to the City’s goals and objectives related to: Greenhouse gas reduction and carbon mitigation
o Economic development within the City
o Community workforce training and development
• Publicity, branding and marketing of the City as a leader m energy and environmental stewardship.
Ill. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
All firms must meet the following minimum requirements to participate in the City’s RFP process:
• Accredited by the National Association of Energy Services Companies (NAESCO) and is included on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Qualified List of Energy Service Companies.
• Active General Contractor’s license in the state of California for a minimum of 24 months;
Has a minimum bonding capacity of $10 Million;
• Local full service support office with trained technicians, engineers, and project managers within a one hundred (100) mile radius of the City.
• Successfully implemented at least two (2) energy performance contracts for public sector clients in the last 5 years.
• Demonstrated experience in retrofitting municipal infrastructure to reduce energy and water consumption;
• Proven ability to provide a team of California licensed mechanical, electrical, structural and civil engineers as may be necessary;
• Savings Methodology shall be a bill to bill comparison – International Performance Measurement and verification protocol (IPMVP) Option C (whole facility savings are determined by measuring energy use at the whole
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