Energy Management Program Support
Major categories of energy management program support include, but are not limited to:
Energy Planning and Strategies - develop, execute, and report agency implementation plan activities pursuant to all federal laws and executive orders. Energy Choice Analysis - provide equipment and /or audit software and training to enable evaluation of various energy choices. Topics may include analysis of advantages and disadvantages of choices for reducing energy consumption including cost, financing, and payback.
Risk Management - provide equipment and/or software and training on risk management to minimize various levels of price uncertainty for energy purchases.
Metering Services - provide a full range of metering solutions that allows the specified locations to understand load profiles; manage demand; allocate costs to tenants, regions, facilities, etc.; reduce consumption; negotiate with suppliers; and, monitor improvements from energy conservation measures.
Preparing agency statements of work - assist agencies in preparing statements of work for energy management projects. This includes project design, strategic source support, performance management, benchmarking/performance diagnostics such as Energy Star, organizational design of the statement of work, and compliance with legislative and executive order requirements such as achieving Energy Star criteria, where applicable.
Homeland Security - assist agencies with vulnerability assessments, design strategies, distributed generation planning, and identification/mitigation of threats.
Energy Audit Services
Energy Audits - develop, execute, and report on 10-year audit plans and/or perform energy audit services. Energy audits may range from cursory to comprehensive. At a minimum, audits shall include data collection, data analysis, benchmarking with tools such as Energy Star, and written recommendations of suggested upgrades of electrical and mechanical infrastructure. This also includes their impact on energy consumption and pollution.
Resource Efficiency Management (REM) - provide information on possible steps that will improve energy efficiency. This information shall include estimates of cost savings and environmental benefits. This includes onsite analysis of current operations, equipment, and energy purchasing patterns. This may include the services of a resource efficiency advocate for individual or aggregated building(s) in order to maximize resource efficiency.
Use of Alternative Energy Sources - describe options for use of alternative energy sources, including converting to use of different sources of energy, alternative off-site storage and management, and alternative and stand-by fuel pricing. This information shall include a statement concerning specific environmental benefits and estimates of cost savings.
Building Commissioning Services - Provide comprehensive building commissioning services on new construction, major modernization, and existing energy consuming operations.
| Labor Categories | GSA & TXMAS (Hourly Rate) |
Operations Manager / Design Engineer / Auditor | $120.90 |
Installation/Constrution Manager | $116.87 |
Applications Engineer | $100.76 |
Applications Technician | $90.27 |
Administrative Assistant | $44.32 |
Commissioning Manager | $116.87 |
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