SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Programmatic and transactional legal services to support DOE's Loan Guarantee Pr
- Notice Date
- 3/12/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541199
— All Other Legal Services
- Contracting Office
- Office of HQ PS (HQ)U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Headquarters ProcurementMA-641000 Independence Ave., S.W.WashingtonDC20585
- ZIP Code
- 20585
- Solicitation Number
- DE-SOL-0001623
- Point of Contact
- Miller, Ryan J 202-287-1487, ryan.miller@hq.doe.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Miller, Ryan J
(ryan.miller@hq.doe.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proceeding to compete the requirements of an expiring contract for legal services to support DOE?s Office of Loan Programs. This requirement includes communicating and coordinating with the DOE and contractor personnel to provide legal counsel (a) on programmatic aspects of the Loan Guarantee Program and (b) on transactions proposed or consummated under the Loan Guarantee Program. The contractor shall conduct analyses of loan guarantee applications; prepare basic/template transactional documentation and other documentation necessary to implement DOE?s Loan Guarantee Program; develop programmatic recommendations; advise on all aspects of the Loan Guarantee Program that relate to structuring, documenting and/or implementing specific components of, or solicitations under, the program; and, as requested, advise on transactions, including conducting due diligence, structuring, drafting, and negotiating finance documents, closing the tra nsaction and handling post-closing matters.No telephone or email requests for the solicitation will be accepted. Firms interested in receiving a copy of the solicitation must register at the Department of Energy online procurement system known as FedConnect, located at https://www.fedconnect.net/fedconnect. No paper copies of the solicitation will be made available. Once registered, vendors must update their profiles to include the Department of Energy as an agency of which they wish to be notified of opportunities. Vendors can search for the opportunity within FedConnect and register as interested parties. For registration and vendor profile issues, please contact the FedConnect helpdesk at support@fedconnect.net or call 1-800-899-6665. A helpful user guide for getting started in FedConnect can be found as a PDF file on the FedConnect website. This solicitation will include two qualification criteria that firms must pass to move on to technical evaluations. Offers will be eliminated from consideration without review if the offer fails to demonstrate clearly the following: I.The Offeror has acted as primary outside transaction counsel in connection with two financing transactions based on the parameters below: A. Each of the two representations must have been closed within the last ten years; B. Each involved energy or energy-related projects; C. Each project must have had project costs of $150 million or more; D. The clients for each of the two transactions must have been senior lenders or guarantors; and E. Services must have included due diligence, structuring, drafting, and negotiating finance documents. II. The Offeror has acted as primary outside transactional counsel in connection with two project finance transactions based on the parameters below: A. Each of the two representations must have been closed within the last ten years; B. Each project must have had project costs of at least $150 million, with a structure that required intercreditor arrangements; C. The clients for each of the two transactions must have been one or more of the following organizations: U.S. Federal Government (e.g., DOE Loan Guarantee Program, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, U.S. Export-Import Bank) or multi-lateral lenders or guarantors (e.g., European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Finance Corporation, Asian Development Bank); and D. Services must have included due diligence, structuring, drafting, and negotiating finance documents. Project finance transactions must be non-recourse or limited-recourse transactions. That is, after a certain due date (e.g., completion), the lenders look to the cash flows of the project for repayment of the debt and to the project assets for security. Project lenders do not rely on the balance sheet of a sponsor or equity holder in the project for repayment after completion of the project. This solicitation is not a set-aside. The solicitation number is DE-SOL-0001623Interested firms will need to register in FedConnect in order to obtain a copy of the solicitation. The solicitation should be available on or around March 26, 2010.
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