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Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
Notice ID:47PA0724Q0002
This synopsis is being issued for a forthcoming solicitation for commercial products in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 12.6, Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and...
This synopsis is being issued for a forthcoming solicitation for commercial products in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 12.6, Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Products and Commercial Services, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes only the synopsis; quotes will be requested in an upcoming solicitation posted to this announcement. The solicitation is expected to be published on or around September 10th, 2024. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) will be requesting quotes for approximately 10,000 unbundled Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) from generation resources that deliver to certain Balancing Authorities more fully described below and qualify as carbon pollution-free electricity (CFE) in order to meet Federal environmental goals laid out in Section 203 of Executive Order (E.O.) 14057, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (December 8, 2021) and its associated White House Council on Environmental Quality Implementing Instructions. An EAC is an instrument that conveys information (attributes) about a unit of energy, including the resource used to create it and the emissions associated with its production and use. EACs provided must contain enough detail to satisfy the requirements of the contract. A Renewable Energy Certificate or REC is a type of EAC. Unbundled EACs are procured independently from the physical power. All EACs must be sourced from generation resources that: Produce CFE, which means electrical energy produced from resources that generate no carbon emissions, including marine energy, solar, wind, hydrokinetic (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, renewably-sourced hydrogen, and electrical energy generation from fossil resources to the extent there is active capture and storage of carbon dioxide emissions that meets Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements. (See Sec. 603(d) of Executive Order (E.O.) 14057); Were placed in service on or after October 1, 2021, either as a new resource or as new capacity at an existing resource modified to increase output; and Deliver CFE to the Balancing Authority listed below. Have a vintage between April 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024. A Balancing Authority, also known as Control Area, is an electric power system or combination of electric power systems bounded by interconnection metering and telemetry to which a common generation control scheme is applied. These Balancing Authorities manage the operation of the electric system within a specific geographic area. There are more than 60 balancing authorities in the U.S., and they are typically either utilities, Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), or a group of utilities that have formed regional entities called regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs). The Government is looking for EACs in the following Balancing Authorities (follow this for a map of the boundaries for the Balancing Authorities https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/Balancing%20Authority%20Backgrounder_2022-Formatted_041723_508.pdf): Public Service Company of Colorado Arizona Public Service Company Southern Company Services Florida Municipal Power Pool Florida Power & Light Company Tampa Electric Company Hawaiian Electric Co Tucson Electric Power Company Tennessee Valley Authority GSA anticipates a single, one-time award of a Firm-Fixed Price Purchase Order as the result of the solicitation. The solicitation is being set aside under the Indian Energy Purchase Preference established in Title V of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, codified at 25 U.S.C. § 3502(d), which established a preference for purchasing electricity and other energy products, to include EACs, from Indian Tribes and Tribal Enterprises. To be considered for this procurement the supplier must be classified as a Tribal Majority-Owned Business Organization. Tribal Majority-Owned Business Organizations are defined as an energy and resource production enterprise, partnership, consortium, corporation or other type of business organization in which the majority of the interest is owned and controlled by one or more Indian Tribes (25 U.S.C. §3502(d)(1)).
