OCPA RFP Q&A Session Presentation – 4.29.2024
Orange County Power Authority is selecting a lead organization to develop its Community Power Plan—a strategy for local investment and environmental performance programs across member cities—plus supporting firms for technical assistance, program implementation, and grant management. The engagement spans community needs assessment, energy-goal feasibility analysis, regulatory reporting, program operations support, and grant administration capacity. Proposers may bid one or all four components and must demonstrate prior experience building similar plans, managing energy programs, and securing funding for municipal energy initiatives.
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Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) is seeking a lead organization to manage the development of OCPA's Community Power Plan (CPP) and supporting organizations to assist in implementing programs and related deliverables. The CPP will serve as a blueprint to develop and offer innovative programs for investing back into local communities and enhancing environmental performance in member cities. The RFP consists of four main components: (1) Community Power Plan - development of overall community investment strategy based on needs assessment and program offerings; (2) Technical Assistance - support for collaborative efforts with OCPA and vendors to enhance regulatory reporting and technical capabilities, including evaluation of energy needs and electrification/carbon-reduction goal support; (3) Program Implementation Support - management of new and existing energy programs to augment OCPA program operations capacity; (4) Grant Management - increase grant management capacity to provide more funding for CPP and energy programming in OCPA member agencies. Proposers must answer specific questions for each component applied to, including demonstrating firm's support of OCPA's mission and vision, experience developing similar deliverables, methods for community needs assessments, use of industry research for feasibility assessment, cost-benefit analysis capabilities, energy needs evaluation experience, technical reporting experience, program management capacity, stakeholder communication methods, grant monitoring and application processes, and communication with funding administrators. Proposers can apply for individual components or all components.
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