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City of Fort Collins
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City of Fort Collins
Purchase Order Number: 8854513
Delivery Date: 08/01/08 Buyer: DICK,OPAL
Purchase Order number must appear on invoices, packing lists, labels, bills of lading, and all correspondence.
Note:
Line Qty/Units Description Extended Price
1 SELA Support -2008 CO Home
Pert w.Energy Star project
Per scope of work attached.
Total
15, 000.00
$15,000.00
City of Fort Cqffiny Director of Purchasing and Risk Management City of Fort Collins
This order is alid over $5000 unless signed by James B. O'Neill II, CPPO
Accounting Department
City of Fort Collins Purchasing, PO Box 580, Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 PO Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580
Colorado Home Performance with ENERGY STAR®
Scope of Work for Smart Energy Living Alliance
Through this scope of work, Fort Collins Utilities (Utilities) supports the Smart Energy Living
Alliance's (SELA) 2008 work to manage and build the Colorado Home Performance with ENERGY
STAR (CHPwES) program, as described in Exhibit "A."
SELA is the program manager, with overall responsibility for successful execution of CHPwES.
Through its support, Utilities will join SF,LA's group of CHPwES sponsors. This group will work
with SELA to shape the direction of the program, through regular correspondence and meetings to be
held at least quarterly.
Program Management
SELA will provide sponsor updates at least monthly and will provide full status reports for quarterly
meetings of the program sponsors.
Deliverables
• Quality assurance procedure (Activity 5a)
• Monthly updates (Activity 7b)
• Quarterly sponsor meetings (Activity 7b)
Budget and Payment Schedule
The total budget amount provided by Fat Collins Utilities to support this scope of work is $15,000.
Monthly partial payments are possible based on demonstrated progress.
Exhibit "A"
Smart Energy Living Alliance
Colorado Home Performance with ENERGY STARO
Scope of Work for 2008
This scope of work outlines Smart Energy Living Alliance's (SELA) overall goals, strategies,
activities and budget for 2008 work to manage and develop a viable Colorado Home Performance
with ENERGY STAR (CHPwES) program. This work is intended to solidify the work and
investments made from 2003 to 2007 and provide a stable base for moving to a larger program in
the future. The budget shown represents SELA's budget needs to accomplish this work, assuming
that 200 home -performance (IIP) projects are completed in 2008. SELA encourages program
sponsors to invest additional resources to support the program in their respective communities.
Note: Cost estimates do not include costs for SELA's Pollution Prevention Grant from the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promote HP Assessments.
Goals
I. To support existing CHPwES-trained contractors and demonstrate the validity of the
CHPwES performance contracting approach in Colorado.
2. To complete 200 CHPwES projects (an average of 10 per trained HP contractor).
3. To monitor and maintain the integrity of the program.
4. To attract new funding that will support program growth in 2009.
Key Strategies to Achieve Goals
1. Provide support to help qualified contractors be successful.
2. Promote the program and the qualified contractors, coordinating promotional activities
among SELA, program sponsors and contractors.
3. Document results of CHPwES jobs.
4. Partner with the Colorado Governor's Energy Office's (GEO) Insulate and Seal Colorado
program
5. Promote financing using the Electric and Gas Industries Association (EGIA) GeoSmart
program and use GEO rebates as interest buydowns.
Activities
1. Qualifying contractors
a. Communicate regularly with past CHPwES trainees, encouraging them to complete
Building Performance Institute (BPI) "Building Analyst" certification and all
requirements to become qualified with CIIPwES.
b. Pay for retesting for those that have not passed the BPI field test.
c. Deal with issues of contractor movement, relocation.
d. Keep on top of EPA program policies and procedures and BPI standards and
resources.
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c. SELA will make some modest efforts to attract free publicity to CHPwES and
enhance SELA and CHPwES websites to attract more leads.
d. Encourage and help coordinate program marketing efforts by program sponsors and
contractors.
e. Distribute leads to HP contractors
f. Promote free HP assessments (using EPA Pollution Prevention grant funding, not
included in these costs.)
Staffing
Program Manager 2 hrs/month = 24 hrs
Project Lead 3.5 hrs/month = 40 hrs
Project Coordinator 10 hrs/month = 120
Other Costs
Subcontractor to increase web presence $1,000
Task Area Subtotal $7,864
5. Quality assurance
a. Develop detailed quality assurance (QA) procedure using the recent EPA document
as guidance.
b. Issue RPP to select Quality Assurance Specialist firm.
c. Manage the QA contract with the selected firm.
Staffing
Program Manager lhr/m = 12 hrs
Project Lead 5 hrs/m = 60 Ins
Project Coordinator 2.5 his/m = 30 hrs
Other costs
$400/visit * 30 visits = $12,000
Task Area Subtotal $20,150
6. Basic efforts to promote program growth
a. Work on integrating GEO's Insulate and Seal program with CHPwES. Encourage
CHPwES sponsor cities writing proposals to:
• Require that rebates only go to projects that have had a HP assessment.
• Use the incentive as an interest rate buydown on a HP project
b. Educate advocates, including the Energy Efficiency Business Council, about
CHPwES so that whole house approaches will be considered during Xcel Energy's
gas and electric demand -side management dockets at the PUC.
c. Work with Xcel Energy, if there is interest, on CHPwES program design issues.
Staffing
Program Manager 60 hrs
Project Lead 40 hrs
Task Area Subtotal $7,800
7. Coordination with CHPwES supporters, reporting
a. Report to EPA, following EPA's guidance.
b. Provide monthly updates to CHPwES supporters on the number of projects,
contractor and program status and activities described in this scope of work.
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