Renewable Energy Project(s) - Solar

The United States Postal Service intends to award an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract(s) with flexibility in purchase options to one or more prequalified suppliers. The purpose of this project is to provide renewable energy solutions through the installation of stand alone solar technologies to offset the energy cost at selected United States Postal Service (USPS) owned facilities. The overall expectation is to deliver up to nine sites achieving between 10 MW and 15MW of solar systems. As the project advances it is anticipated that six to twenty-five sites ranging from 100 kilowatts to 2 megawatts will be added to the program every two years. The determining program expansion factors are dependant on the Postal Service requirements to reduce its greenhouse gas and carbon footprint and the financial value to the USPS. Subcontracting goals for this project are: 31.20% Small Business Enterprise, 3.10% for Minority Business Enterprise, and 4.60% for Woman Owned Business Enterprise. Only the following pre-qualified firms are invited to submit proposals for this solicitation: Jay A. Johnson, Director, Operations - Federal Business Unit, Chevron Energy Solutions, 2600 Eagan Woods Drive, Eagan, MN 55121, jajohnson@chevron.com; Jon Lewis, Federal Program Manager, Honeywell Federal Government Team, 6001 Meadow Run Court, Chapel Hill, NC 27516; jon.lewis@honeywell.com; Steven.Craig@Honeywell.com; Patrick M. McCarthy, Program Director, Energy and Environmental Services, Lockheed Martin Services, Inc. (dba: LMSI), 700 N. Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg, MD 20879-3328, patrick.mccarthy@lmco.com; Steve Boyle, Pepco Energy Services, 1300 North 17th Street, Suite 1600, Arlington, VA 22209, sboyle@pepcoenergy.com; Natasha Shah, Business Development Manager, Siemens Building Technologies, Inc, 6435 Virginia Manor Road, Beltsville, MD 20705, natasha.shah@siemens.com; michael.angerame@siemensgovt.com; Thomas Leyden, Managing Director East Operations, SunPower Corporation Systems, 700 South Clinton Ave, Trenton, NJ 08611, tleyden@sunpowercorp.com; Kenneth A. Nelson, Corporate Senior Vice President, The Benham Companies, LLC, 9400 N. Broadway, Suite 300, Oklahoma City, OK 73114, ken.nelson@benham.com. The previous listed Suppliers have been furnished copies of the solicitation. Note, interested subcontractors and suppliers may obtain a copy through the pre-qualified list of suppliers. Note this is not a public procurement and proposals will not be publicly opened. All questions concerning this solicitation shall only be directed in writing in WORD format to Michael Bacha at michael.j.bacha@usps.gov or Mike Miller at mike.r.miller@usps.gov. Questions during the proposal process will only be received from prequalified suppliers, not subcontractors, nor other interested parties. Questions shall be clear, concise, numbered and dated. Do not attempt to contact anyone else during this process as only answers issued from Michael Bacha or Mike Miller will be included in Amendment(s) issued. A pre-proposal conference will be held at Tuesday June 9, 2009; Time: 9:00 AM; Location: 7029 Albert Pick Road, Suite 205; Greensboro, NC 27409-9521. Proposals are due on July 7, 2009 at 3:00pm EST and should be hand delivered or mailed (using one of the fine services offered by the Postal Service) to the attention of Michael Bacha, SMFP, Suite 300, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22203-1840.