SOURCES SOUGHT for Utility Energy Service Contract (UESC)   2

Background
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (CEHNC) UESC program negotiates contracts with local electric, gas, or water utility companies through which the utility companies provide federal agency customers with comprehensive energy and water efficiency improvements and demand reduction services. UESC projects can encompass a broad range of energy conservation measures (ECMs), including system upgrades and re-commissioning, deep retrofit projects, renewable energy, cogeneration plants and microgrids. UESC gives federal customers the flexibility to tailor a project to a customer’s energy needs and financing strategies.
UESC projects can also incorporate energy resiliency and security to address the Army requirement to reduce the risk to critical missions.

Work Details
The primary purpose of the proposed acquisition is to acquire the design, implementation, and operation of a Utility Energy Services Contract (UESC) energy management project for the 63rd Reserve Unit. This UESC project could possibly be later referred to as “63rd Reserves”. A UESC is a contracting vehicle that allows agencies to accomplish energy savings projects for their facilities without up-front capital costs and without special Congressional appropriations to pay for the improvements.
Under a UESC contract, the selected UESC utility provider (Utility) will provide their own funding, provide financed funding, or a combination of their own and financed funding, for an energy conservation project that will be repaid from utility bill savings. The Utility will conduct a comprehensive energy audit to identify improvements that will result in energy savings. With coordination and approval of , the Utility will design and construct an energy savings project and provide assurance that the improvements will result in savings sufficient to pay for the project over a maximum 25-year repayment period.
The Utility will also develop a savings assurance plan and arrange project financing. The project energy savings will be measured over the course of the financing period.

Place of Performance
The requirement is for the 63rd US Army Reserve, locations at US Army Reserve center in Concord, CA.