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Evaluation of Biomass-Fueled Generation Facility Proposals (B)
Staff is providing its evaluation of the proposals received in response to GRU’s Request for Proposals (RFP 2007-135) for a Biomass-Fueled Generation Facility for City Commission review and recommends that three respondents be invited to submit binding proposals.
Explanation
At the direction of the City Commission, Utilities Purchasing issued a Request for Proposal for a biomass-fueled generation facility on October 15, 2007. The RFP was posted on the GRU website and announced to all known interested parties. In addition, the RFP was advertised in the Wall Street Journal and Public Power Weekly. A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting was held at the Deerhaven Generating Station on November 9, 2007.
The RFP included a two step process to encourage innovation and broad participation from prospective respondents. Because proposals for such a project are resource intensive to develop, binding proposals were not required in the first step of the evaluation process. The second step of the process allows up to three selected respondents to be invited to submit binding proposals, one of which would be recommended for project development. Limiting the number of invitees is expected to improve the quality of the proposals while assuring competition.
There were fourteen evaluation criteria in the RFP with pre-established scoring weights. Grouping these criteria into three main categories resulted in the following overall weightings: 1) Economics- cost effective renewable energy and capacity (31%); 2) Environmental- environmental attributes consistent with community values identified by the City Commission (34%); and 3) Risk and Reliability- exposure to financial loss, enhanced and reliable electrical supply (35%).
On December 14, 2007 eleven (11) proposals were received in response to the RFP. The proposals are posted on www.GRU.com under “Future Power Supply”. Two proposals were deemed non r...
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