Electric delivery, distribution, and transmission services to Wright-Patterson AFB

Sources Sought This is a Sources Sought Synopsis; there is no solicitation available. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. This Sources Sought Synopsis is published for Market Research Purposes. This market research will be used to help determine if this may be a competitive acquisition, or if a set-aside for any small business program is appropriate (Small Business, 8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVO), Economically disadvantaged Women Owned (EDWO) small businesses). Please review this announcement, including all attachments, in their entirety. Information provided in response to this announcement by any means whatsoever and in any form whatsoever shall be at the expense of the provider. The Government will not compensate any person, company, or other entity that submits any information in response to this announcement. This announcement is part of continuous market research to assess whether there are businesses capable of providing electrical delivery, electrical distribution, and electrical transmission services to match real time demand load and energy usage at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio AS A CONSOLIDATED PRODUCT. Currently, the peak demand at WPAFB is 82 mega-Watts (MW) as of 17 December 2019 with a consumption of 417,700 mega watt hours (MWh) from 01 Oct - 30 Sept 2019. WPAFB anticipates a load increase over the next year to 87.0 MW of demand and 470,000 MWh of consumption. Attached to this announcement are the technical requirements for WPAFB. Careful compliance with these requirements is required. Prospective sources must be certified by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) and show proof of that certification and must demonstrate their capability to provide the required consolidated product. Capabilities statements shall include projections of discounts on current and future loads and sufficient information to determine if the firm can meet the minimum technical requirements. Responses shall include company name, physical address, mailing address, and point of contact with phone number. Prospective sources must also indicate their business size status (e.g. large, small, small disadvantaged, 8(a), women-owned, economically-disadvantaged women-owned, HUBZone, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned small business) in relation to North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 221118. Prospective Sources should also include their corresponding Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS Number) and Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) codes. CAGE codes can be obtained by successfully registering in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov. CAPABILITIES STATEMENT: Interested parties shall submit a capabilities package, with a cover letter, that is brief and concise, yet clearly demonstrates ability to meet the stated requirements with sufficiently qualified personnel. The capabilities package should clearly present evidence that the interested party is fully capable of providing the required electric services and, as such, may contain any information that the interested party feels is relevant. The following issues should also be addressed in the capabilities package: Provide a description as to your capability and capacity to perform and manage the work; Address how your company will perform this work: Clearly describe your background and experience, within the past ten years, in providing labor, tools, material, equipment, and incidentals to supply and deliver firm electrical power to the point of service; Identify the proposed sources of supply for base load generation; Describe whether electricity would be provided from a generation owned by the offeror, obtained under long-term contracts, and/or obtained under short-term contracts/spot market purchases; Indicate whether the sources of supply are within the service control area, or an adjacent control area; Describe how electricity would be transmitted from the sources of supply identified above to WPAFB. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: The contractor shall furnish all labor, tools, material, equipment, and incidentals to supply and deliver firm electric power. The delivery point for such power shall be at that point on the electrical system at which the Dayton Power and Light Company takes possession of the electricity for final delivery of the electricity to the meter(s) of the specific facilities on WPAFB. The contractor will be responsible for providing and coordinating all services required to deliver firm electrical generation services to the designated point of service. Electrical generation services shall be available and commence on 1 January 2021. The resulting contract will be based on a fixed price prescribed in the PUCO Documents and Rules and shall have a period of performance of one year to three years. A draft Statement of Work is provided as part of this Sources Sought Synopsis for additional requirements. EVIDENCE OF RESPONSIBILITY: An offeror must possess, at a minimum, twelve consecutive months of experience (within the past two years) providing firm generation of electricity to wholesale or retail customers. Respondent shall provide evidence that it is authorized to conduct business by each state's regulatory body having jurisdiction over the state's electric industry prior to award of any contract for solicited requirements. The offeror must demonstrate the ability to obtain transmission service agreements in the company's name. Questions or capabilities statements can be sent via e-mail with a maximum of 15 pages. Send e-mail to eric.monroe@us.af.mil. You are advised that all correspondence sent via e-mail shall contain a subject line which reads - Consolidated Electric Services Sources Sought. Note that e-mail filters at WPAFB are designed to filter e-mails without subject lines or with suspicious subject lines or contents (i.e. .exe or .zip files). Therefore, if this subject line is not included, the e-mail may not get through the e-mail filters. Also be advised that .zip or .exe files are not allowable attachments and may be deleted by the e-mail filters at WPAFB. If documents are attached to an e-mail, ensure only .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, or .xlsx documents are sent. The e-mail filters may delete any other form of attachments. You can contact Eric Monroe at 937-522-4629. ALL INQUIRIES AND/OR RESPONSES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 12:00 (Noon), EST TIME, ON 1 March 2020. Place of Contract Performance: Wright-Patterson AFB Dayton, Ohio 45433 United States Archiving Policy: Manual Archive Allow Vendors to Add/Remove from Interested Vendors No Allow Vendors to View Interested Vendors List No