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ADDENDUM NO. 1
SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT DOCUMENTS
Description of RFP 10130: Commercial Building Benchmarking Support
OPENING DATE: 3:00 PM (Our Clock) April 3, 2023
To all prospective bidders under the specifications and contract documents described above, the
following changes/additions are hereby made and detailed in the following sections of this
addendum:
Exhibit 1 – Preproposal Meeting Attendance Roster
Exhibit 2 – Preproposal Meeting Presentation .pdf
Question from Preproposal Meeting– To clarify, the City is maintaining its current
Customer Service staff. The City is looking for support services from qualified Service
Provider(s).
Please contact Jake Rector, Senior Buyer, at (970) 221-6776 or jrector@fcgov.com with any
questions regarding this addendum.
RECEIPT OF THIS ADDENDUM MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED BY A WRITTEN STATEMENT
ENCLOSED WITH THE PROPOSAL STATING THAT THIS ADDENDUM HAS BEEN
RECEIVED.
Financial Services
Purchasing Division
215 N. Mason St. 2nd Floor
PO Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
970.221.6775
970.221.6707
fcgov.com/purchasing
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Exhibit 1
Preproposal Meeting Attendance Roster
Name Email
Jake Rector jrector@fcgov.com
Maria Buzzelli mbuzzelli@fcgov.com
Leland Keller lkeller@fcgov.com
Casey Fitzgerald CFitzgerald@utilityadvantage.com
Jennifer Wassan
Kristin Elson Kristin.Elson@touchstoneiq.com
Newman, Mattie Mattie.Newman@protiviti.com
Katherine Bailey kbailey@fcgov.com
Deb Lenny DLenny@utilityadvantage.com
Jonathan Dierking Jon.Dierking@touchstoneiq.com
Laurie Wiegand-Jackson
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Jake Rector & Katherine Bailey
10130 Commercial Building Benchmarking Support
-Introductions
Jake Rector –Senior Buyer
Katherine Bailey –Project Manager
David Suckling –Energy Services Engineer
Leland Keller –Mechanical Engineer
Maria Buzzeli –Project Analyst
Kyle Uhlenhopp –Data Analyst
-Please enter Name, Company and Email in Chat Line
-RFP Schedule Review
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Background:
Fort Collins Benchmarking Program: In 2018, the City adopted §12-203 of
the Municipal Code requiring commercial and multifamily buildings 5,000ft2 and
larger to benchmark building energy usage through ENERGY STAR Portfolio
Manager (ESPM).
State Policy: The State of Colorado BPS ordinance requires buildings
50,000ft2 and larger to report energy use in ESPM and comply with efficiency
targets per HB21-1286. Approximately 200 buildings in Fort Collins are covered
by the State’s BPS ordinance.
Local Policy Development: The State of Colorado BPS ordinance requires
buildings 50,000ft2 and larger to report energy use in ESPM and comply with
efficiency targets per HB21-1286. Approximately 200 buildings in Fort Collins
are covered by the State’s BPS ordinance.
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The City of Fort Collins is requesting proposals from qualified Service Providers
to provide services supporting building benchmarking, including: Help Center
support and administration to facilitate building owner compliance with
benchmarking requirements; compliance tracking and publicly accessible
transparency map; secure customer data sharing with verified third party
contractors and consent management.
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Goals and Objectives:
Find one or more Service Providers to support BEWS and secure data sharing,
including consent management requirements. While existing service providers are
eligible to participate in this RFP, the City will consider other similar solutions that
meet the following objectives, which may be bid upon and awarded individually or
together:
•Benchmarking Integration
o Integrate with ESPM and third-party contractors
•Benchmarking Support:
o Provide Help Center staffed with a trained sustainability consultant during
business hours to assist with benchmarking compliance
o Provide regular reports of tracked data
•Data Share:
o Aggregate whole building use and transfer directly to ESPM for BEWS
compliance
o Transfer residential data to approved third-party contractors
o Comply with confidentiality and privacy laws
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Deliverables/Milestones – 2025
-BEWS Support
-BEWS Submission Management
-Data Management
-Data Transfers
-Data Transfer Customer Support
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Alternative Approaches
The City encourages respondents to propose alternative approaches and/or
other considerations for services required for achieving its objectives.
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Optional Desired Capabilities
•Capability to tie into Building Performance Standards (BPS) support
o Support for BPS will be contracted separately in the event that a local BPS
policy is passed. Preference will be given to a solution that can either support
BPS or tie into BPS support provided.
•Customer communications/updates regarding the status of data requests
•Green Button XML format for customer-authorized sharing of energy data to third
party contractors
The City is open to learning about additional functionalities associated with proposed
solutions.
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Minimum Qualifications
•Demonstrated success providing excellent customer service
•Demonstrated success supporting benchmarking programs
•Demonstrated success integrating with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
(ESPM)
o Reporting link as well as securely transferring aggregated building level data
to ESPM accounts and third-party contractors.
•Demonstrated success managing consent requirements for utility data transfer
per privacy requirements
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Software as a Service (SaaS) Questionnaire (Attachment A)
-To be completed only upon request by the City.
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Evaluation Criteria
30% - Scope of Proposal
30% - Firm Capability & Assigned Personnel
10% - Sustainability/TBL Methodology
30% - Cost & Work Hours
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Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) C.R.S. §§24-72-200.1 et seq.
-Any proposals submitted hereunder are subject to public disclosure by
the City pursuant to CORA and City ordinances.
-Vendors may submit one (1) additional complete proposal clearly
marked “FOR PUBLIC VIEWING.”
-Such statement does not necessarily exempt such documentation
from public disclosure if awarded the project as all provisions of any
contract resulting from this request for proposal will be public
information.
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Questions?
Please send to Jake Rector at jrector@fcgov.com