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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to obtain responses from vendors and other inte... The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to obtain responses from vendors and other interested parties on resource efficient technologies that improve commercial building health and resilience. Buildings consume approximately 75% of U.S. electricity and can drive peak generating capacity required by utilities[1]. Moreover, with the increased frequency of disruptive events[2] (COVID-19 being the latest in a pattern of increasingly frequent events to impact the built environment)[3], there is a need for a suite of resource efficient, resilient technologies and strategies to support the U.S. building stock. For the purposes of this RFI, resilient technologies are those that improve building energy performance and maintain healthy, productive environments without compromising occupant comfort, indoor air quality and productivity, despite the more frequent onset of disruptive events that impact the built environment, such as natural disasters, the spread of infectious disease and grid interruptions. The building technology or solution information submitted in response to this RFI should be innovative and transformational, and characterized as being in either the pre-commercial or early commercial stage of development. Only technologies and solutions whose bench-scale performance has been validated will be considered, and any claimed benefits must be directly verifiable through the measurement and verification (M&V) process. [1] U.S. Department of Energy. 2019. “Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings.” https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/04/f61/bto-geb_overview-4.15.19.pdf. [2] Scientific American. 2018. “Extreme Weather Will Occur More Frequently Worldwide.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-weather-will-occur-more-frequently-worldwide/ [3] World Economic Forum. 2020. “Coronavirus isn't an outlier, it's part of our interconnected viral age.” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-global-epidemics-health-pandemic-covid-19/