Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) recently announced two contracting opportunities. More details are below:

RFP – Commercial SEM Program

Contract Type: Professional Services Contract

Contract Opportunity Title: RFP 180713, PG&E 3P EE Commercial Strategic Energy Management Program

Request For: Proposal (RFP)

Estimated Contract Value: $15,000,000 over six years

Work Location: Across PG&E Territory

Response Due Date: RFP is tentatively scheduled to release September, 26 2023. The proposal due date and time is 3:00 p.m. PST November 7, 2023, unless such date is otherwise modified by PG&E.

NAICS Code / Size Standard: 541618-Other Management Consulting Services / $19,000,000.

Background

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation, is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San Francisco with more than 23,000 employees, the company is the primary natural gas and electric service provider for Northern and Central California. The company’s 70,000-square-mile service area stretches from Eureka to the Sierra Nevada in the east. PG&E delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 16 million people.

Strategic Energy Management (SEM) is a continuous improvement process that drives deep, lasting change in the ways that businesses use energy. SEM practices improve an organization’s ability to manage its own energy performance and costs on an ongoing basis. To do this, SEM emphasizes a structured approach to increasing organizational commitment, improving the planning and implementation of energy-saving projects, and measuring energy performance outcomes.

PG&E has had success with recent Industrial SEM programs and envisions SEM as one of the major program offerings in its energy efficiency programs portfolio in the future.

California Public Utilities Commission’s Decision 23-02-002 allows program administrators to offer SEM programs to sectors other than industrial if they are well-suited to the SEM intervention, and that SEM may be bid and contracted as a third-party EE program.

Therefore, PG&E is issuing this RFP for a third-party implemented SEM program targeting commercial, institutional, and/or public sector customers of PG&E.

Contract Opportunity Description

The primary objective of this RFP is to contract a Commercial SEM resource program that can deliver cost-effective energy savings and maximize total system benefits. Successful bids will expand the availability of SEM beyond the industrial sector to Commercial customers and promote the establishment and maintenance of SEM practices in their organizations and facilities.

Supply Chain Responsibility Considerations

The selected bidder will be asked to comply with PG&E’s Supply Chain Responsibility policies and procedures found at: https://www.pge.com/en_US/for-our-business-partners/purchasing-program/suppliers/supply-chain-responsibility/current-suppliers.page?ctx=large-business; and will need to provide a detailed description of their internal, specific, supplier responsibility program and practices.

Conduct Requirements

Suppliers, as well as their employees, subcontractors, and sub-suppliers, must adhere to the principles and standards outlined in our Supplier Code of Conduct as they provide goods and services to PG&E. Review the Code and understand its obligations here: http://www.pgecorp.com/corp/about-us/compliance-ethics/program/third-party-code-conduct.page.

How to Respond

• Bidders interested in participating in this RFP must register in Wood Mackenzie at https://www.poweradvocate.com/pR.do?okey=180713&pubEvent=true.
• Bidders may register up until the RFP bid response due date, tentatively scheduled for November 7, 2023, unless such date is otherwise modified by PG&E.

For additional questions, contact Tony Abdulla via Wood Mackenzie.

RFI – Emergency Services and Equipment

Contract Type: Service Contract

Request For: Information

Estimated Contract Value: N/A – Request for Information

Work Location:  Various locations throughout PG&E’s Service Territory

Response Due Date:  Respond with your interest no later than August 30, 2023, at 5 p.m. Pacific time PST

NAICS Code / Size Standard: 237130 – Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction / $45,000,000 Annual Revenue.

Background

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation, is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San Francisco with more than 23,000 employees, the company is the primary natural gas and electric service provider for Northern and Central California. The company’s 70,000-square-mile service area stretches from Eureka to the north to Bakersfield in the south and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east. PG&E delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 16 million people.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) was incorporated in California in 1905. Our customers include over 20,000 schools, 3,000 hospitals, 20,000 high-tech companies, and 700 military facilities. PG&E provides electricity to over 4.9 million customers and natural gas to over 3.9 million customers. PG&E is committed to enhancing its supply base to include contractors who can contribute to PG&E’s corporate values, including diversity, safety, environmental stewardship, and corporate integrity. The RFP evaluation process is intended to provide opportunities for successful firms to expand their business with PG&E, for new firms to establish business with PG&E, and for PG&E to realize reductions in costs, both internal and external, while experiencing enhanced commitment to corporate values. This will be an exciting opportunity for PG&E and its suppliers – both current and new – to reshape the way we work together and to improve PG&E’s operations.

Contract Opportunity Description

PG&E will be conducting an RFI for Emergency Services and Equipment. The provision of equipment, labor and services is a key element to ensure PG&E is prepared for emergencies to minimize damage to PG&E assets, support emergency response and restoration efforts, and limit inconveniences to customers, which may occur as a result of:

• Major outages (Earthquakes, storms, wildfires, heat events, etc.)
• Hazards posed by damage to gas, electric, and generation facilities.

The provision of Emergency Services and Equipment includes the provision of all-inclusive and/or situation-specific equipment solutions for PG&E’s temporary emergency sites as required for both emergency incidents, planned events, and All Hazards. This includes providing turn-key equipment and supporting services for base camps, staging areas, microsites, material laydown areas, rally safety points, and Community Resource Centers (CRCs).

Emergency equipment may include office trailers, tents, generators, lighting, portable toilets and mobile showers, mobile sleeping facilities, mobile laundry facilities/services, water trucks, fuel trucks, mobile kitchen/food service facilities, and miscellaneous other equipment to support the emergency sites.

Supply Chain Responsibility Considerations

The selected bidder will be asked to comply with PG&E’s Supply Chain Responsibility policies and procedures found at: https://www.pge.com/en_US/for-our-business-partners/purchasing-program/suppliers/supply-chain-responsibility/current-suppliers.page?ctx=large-business; and will need to provide a detailed description of their internal, specific, supplier responsibility program and practices.

Conduct Requirements

Suppliers, as well as their employees, subcontractors, and sub-suppliers, must adhere to the principles and standards outlined in PG&E’s Supplier Code of Conduct as they provide goods and services to PG&E. Review the Code and understand its obligations here: http://www.pgecorp.com/corp/about-us/compliance-ethics/program/third-party-code-conduct.page

Safety Requirements

Supplier shall either be:

• Registered with ISNetworld (“ISN”) with an A or B score.
• Willing to register with ISN prior to work award and maintain an A or B score.

How to Respond

Suppliers interested in participating in this contract opportunity must email interest to Julie Hoepner (Julie.hoepner@pge.com) no later than August 30, 2023, at 5 p.m. PDT. In your response, please provide a brief overview of your qualifications/experience providing emergency equipment and services as well as the primary contact’s name and email address to receive an RFI if you are selected for inclusion in the RFI process.