Request for Proposal (RFP) – The Alaska Energy Authority, is soliciting proposals for A State Energy Security Plan (SESP)
Alaska Energy Authority seeks a consultant to develop a comprehensive State Energy Security Plan meeting federal Department of Energy requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, with scope covering energy source assessment across all sectors, infrastructure risk analysis focused on Cook Inlet natural gas vulnerabilities, cybersecurity threat evaluation, and cross-sector interdependency mapping. The consultant will facilitate 4–6 working group meetings with state agencies, tribal representatives, and private/public energy providers, deliver draft and final energy landscape, risk profile, and security plan documents between October 2022 and May 2023, and design and support a table-top exercise through December 2023. Contract term runs nine months from September 2022 through June 2023.
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The Alaska Energy Authority is soliciting proposals for the development of a State Energy Security Plan (SESP) that meets the requirements of the Department of Energy as outlined in Section 40108 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The selected consultant shall develop, implement, review, and revise a comprehensive SESP for Alaska.
The SESP must assess all energy sources and regulated and unregulated energy providers, provide a state energy profile including assessment of energy production, transmission, distribution, and end use, and address potential hazards to each energy sector including both physical and cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. The plan shall include a risk assessment of energy infrastructure and cross-sector interdependencies with special focus on natural gas in Cook Inlet, provide a risk mitigation approach to enhance reliability and end-use resilience, and address multi-state and regional coordination, planning, and response as well as coordination with Indian Tribes.
The consultant shall facilitate meetings with required entities including the Department of Homeland Security (Division of Military and Veterans Affairs), Regulatory Commission of Alaska, and representatives from private and public sectors responsible for maintaining fuel or electric reliability. Work includes hosting and facilitating meetings (in-person or online), preparing agendas, maintaining meeting notes, and tracking attendees. The contract runs from approximately September 9, 2022 through June 30, 2023 (approximately nine months).
Key deliverables include working group meetings (4-6 meetings with agendas, notes, and attendee lists from October 2022 through December 2023), draft energy landscape and risk profile documents (October-November 2022), final energy landscape and risk profile documents (November-December 2022), draft energy security plan (November 2022-February 2023), final energy security plan (February-May 2023), exercise implementation (May-November 2023), and table-top exercise support and recommendations (September-December 2023). The proposal evaluation will consider experience and qualifications (25%), understanding of the project (10%), methodology (15%), management plan (10%), and cost (40%).
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