A -- ZERO ENERGY HOME CONCEPTS AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Notice Date

February 27, 2001

Contracting Office

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401-3393

ZIP Code

80401-3393

Solicitation Number

RAA-1-31429

Response Due

May 1, 2001

Point of Contact

Jim Fox, (303) 384-7365

Description

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) anticipates issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) in March 2001 for a new project on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy in support of the Solar Buildings Program. This project is a multi year effort for promoting the combination of solar energy and energy efficiency in a single family home. This is being accomplished through use of the "Zero Energy Home" concept, a concept that has a goal of combining commercially available renewable energy technologies with energy efficient construction techniques in order to provide the home's energy demands while approaching zero net energy consumption from non-renewable energy sources. The method for accomplishing this goal is that offerors incorporate the "Zero Energy Home" concept into single family homes that, at a minimum incorporate both solar hot water and photovoltaic energy production. Acceptable projects will be those that are intended to result in building, marketing, and monitoring "Zero Energy Homes" with solar hot water and photovoltaic energy generation. There are many stages to building "Zero Energy Homes" including market research, prototype designing and build, selection, design and building of appropriate building projects with multiple homes. For this reason, NREL will accept projects in any stage of implementation. Additionally, NREL intends that selected offerors will have the opportunity to progress from an initially defined project (a certain stage in the process of building Zero Energy Homes). For this reason, NREL intends to establish a Task Ordering Agreement (TOA) for a duration of 48 months with selected offerors. The initially defined project will be the first Task Order (TO). During the TOA perfromance period, follow-on TOs may be issued as natural extensions of the selected offerors' initial proposals, or a TO may be issued for entirely new projects as proposed by the selected offerors. In the latter case, the TOA serves as an aid in establishing new projects that meet the goal of implementing the Zero Energy Home concept in projects not conceived of or that were at an immature stage of development at the time of the original RFP. The construction cost that will necessarily occur on-site in actually building single family homes will not be considered part of the projects costs and will not be reimbursed by NREL. The project requires price participation in the minimum amount of 10% of each TO's total price. Price participation is defined as the offeror's cost contribution toward the total price of the project negotiated under a firm fixed price TO. All TOs will be issued as firm fixed price. It is the intent of NREL to award multiple TOAs along with an initial TO issued on a firm fixed price basis under this solicitation. The anticipated period of performance for the TOA is 48 months and the TOs will have periods of performance as initially proposed by the selected offeror and as negotiated with NREL. Current (fiscal year 2001) funding availability is approximately $420,000. It is anticipated that total funding for this project will not exceed $4,000,000 over the 48-month period of performance. This Commerce Business Daily announcement is not a request for proposals. Interested parties are directed to the RFP document expected to be available on the World Wide Web at www.nrel.gov/contracts/rfps/ about March 6, 2001. A hard copy of the RFP may be requested by mail at the above address to the attention of Jim Fox, by email at jim_fox@nrel.gov, or by fax to the attention of Jim Fox at (303) 384-7352. Telphone requests will not be honored.

Web Link

NREL's Current Solicitations (Request for Proposals (http://www.nrel.gov/contracts/rfps/)

Record

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