Task Order for Long-Term RFO Support Services For 2026 Clean Energy & Reliability RFO

Clean Power Alliance of Southern California is seeking qualified and experienced contractors to provide comprehensive support services for the 2026 Clean Energy and Reliability RFO. The scope of work encompasses four primary task areas: solicitation design and offer selection criteria development, RFO administration and management, proposal evaluation and portfolio assessment, and ongoing valuation support for offer variations.

Task 1 involves supporting the development of solicitation scope and process design, with particular emphasis on incorporating quantitative and qualitative selection criteria including energy and ancillary services value, development risk, environmental stewardship, workforce development, benefits to disadvantaged communities, project location, GHG emissions, and price adjusters. Task 2 requires providing input on CPA's requested products, feedback on solicitation materials, a submission platform accommodating high-volume bidders with differentiated offers, Q&A process management, and project management to ensure key dates are met.

Task 3 focuses on initial quality assurance/quality control of submitted offers, building a comprehensive valuation model for financial analysis of individual projects and project portfolios, creating a longlist summary analyzing project characteristics and offer details, providing valuation ranking with advanced analytics, and performing slice-of-day portfolio fit analysis under the RA framework. Task 4 involves ongoing valuation support for approximately 10 offer variants with non-standard terms through February 2027.

Key project dates include Task Order release on January 20, 2026, proposal deadline of February 5, 2026, with major RFO milestones including launch on May 19, 2026, Q&A close on June 10, 2026, offer submission deadline of June 29, 2026, longlist completion by July 10, 2026, valuation ranking completion by August 13, 2026, and Board approval of final PPAs by February 4, 2027. Pricing should be submitted on a fixed-price basis with costs broken out separately by task groupings. All work products, including Excel models, must be provided in unlocked formats to CPA.