SCIP Power Balancing   2

Background
The Bureau of Indian Affairs / San Carlos Irrigation Project ("SCIP") operates an electric utility as part of their duties as a Federal Agency. SCIP is seeking a consultant that is knowledgeable in technical, financial, and operational needs in support of the utility. SCIP has a requirement to comply with Electrical Utilities Standards and 25 CFR 175.10(b) which states that "Rates and Fees shall be reviewed at least annually to determine if project revenues are sufficient to meet the requirements set forth in paragraph (a) of this section." SCIP also participates in coordinated hydropower resource scheduling with other regional preference utilities and is seeking resource scheduling support.

Work Details
The contractor is required to provide all labor, equipment, and materials for Arizona scale resource and power cooling optimization consultant services. The tasks include assisting SCIP in managing its power contracts and resource pooling, forecasting and preparing annual/monthly/hourly power schedules, coordinating resource deliveries and transmission tags with various entities, reviewing resource invoices for accuracy, providing billing audits for SCIP's customer(s), assisting SCIP with long term power resource acquisition, participation in pooling opportunities such as resource exchange programs, attending Power Marketing Meetings on SCIP’s behalf, studying the current operations and the status of revenue requirements of the electric power utility program at SCIP, developing electric power rates and service fee schedules, providing technical planning, reporting, and special studies services including renewable resource integration, resource conservation plans, formal Integrated Resource Plan filing, Power System Planning Studies, NERC/FERC reliability compliance requirements.

Period of Performance
Base plus four (4) option years.

Place of Performance
Arizona