Natural Gas Asset Manager

The New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Sheridan Avenue Steam Plant (SASP) located at 79 Sheridan Avenue, Albany, New York generates steam for heating and cooling of the Empire State Plaza (ESP) which houses several New York State Agencies and associated entities. This plant houses boilers which produce the steam necessary to accommodate the ESP’s space heating load, domestic hot water heating load and space cooling load via steam turbine driven chillers. The SASP can burn natural gas or fuel oil. The SASP has firm delivery service via the Local Distribution Company (LDC) National Grid. OGS is directly responsible for the procurement of natural gas for the SASP and has obtained access to firm upstream pipeline capacity (Asset) to the National Grid East Gate for virtually all the SASP daily and monthly requirements. However, throughout the winter season during periods of below normal temperatures there will be a need for delivered supplemental supply above the firm upstream capacity that OGS holds. This can also be the case in the summer period when above normal temperature conditions exist where supplemental supply will be needed.  The purpose of this Invitation for Bid (IFB) is to solicit bids from Asset Managers (Seller) to enter into an Asset Management Arrangement (AMA) to provide 100% or full requirements (Requirement) of OGS’ (Buyer) natural gas needs at the SASP. The Requirements will first be met by the Seller utilizing the asset assigned under the AMA, delivered at the Tier 1 price in Section 2.11. Additional supply required above the AMA volume will be priced at the Delivery Point at the Tier 2 price in Section 2.11 Proposers are advised that the State’s intent is to ensure that only responsive, responsible, qualified and reliable contractors enter into a contract to perform the work as defined in this document. The State considers the following qualifications to be a pre-requisite in order to be considered as a qualified Proposer for the purposes of the solicitation. Proposers not meeting the qualifications below will be disqualified.  Proposers may not use a subcontractor’s or any other entity’s qualifications to meet requirements. Responsive Proposers must meet all the following requirements: Proposer must have contracted with large industrial customer(s) with annual usage greater than 1.5 BCF (Billion Cubic Feet), Co Generator(s) or Utility’s as an asset manager of Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage Inc (EGTS) and Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) capacity within the past five years. This shall not include “Slice of System” assets released by the utility to an Energy Service Company (ESCO) for their retail access programs. Proposer must have the ability to trigger forward NYMEX pricing for any size volume and duration when requested pursuant to Section 2.12 NYMEX Trigger. Proposer must be an approved shipper on Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage Inc. (EGTS). When available, the bid documents may be found at https://ogs.ny.gov/procurement/bid-opportunities  Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Set Aside: No Total MWBE Participation Goals: 0% Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business Contracting Goal: 0% Due date:06/11/2024 10:00 AM This solicitation has a mandatory Prequalification deadline which all prospective bidders must submit by April 19, 2024. Please see Section 1.3 and Section 1.5 for more information. Contract term: 9/1/24- 8/31/29 County(ies): Albany Location: Albany, NY * These goods or services have been purchased from an out-of-state/foreign vendor within the past three years. Business entities awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract within the past five years: Emera Energy Services, Inc.