The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Clean Energy Division is issuing this solicitation for the supply of natural gas for accounts located behind various utility service territories. The accounts and their respective usage are expressed in the Exhibit 1 file. The Contractor shall supply the full natural gas requirements of the accounts for a term of up to sixty (60) full monthly billing cycles. Multiple awards are contemplated for this solicitation. Each contract will be administered by the contracting officers, either Ebony Atkinson or Nilka Diaz, and account managers of GSA’s Natural Gas Acquisition Program (NGAP). The responsible contracting officer will be identified in each contract awarded as a result of the solicitation. NGAP is part of the GSA Clean Energy Division.

GSA desires to secure the lowest cost, technically acceptable solution for natural gas supply and gas transportation to the accounts utilizing the most direct pipeline into the included utility service territories (hereafter referred to as the LDCs). NGAP utilizes a transaction platform provided by Enel X to collect pricing through an internet based reverse auction. The Government has organized its requirements for this solicitation in an Exhibit 1 excel spreadsheet. The service start date for all accounts shall begin with the first utility meter read date as specified by the applicable utility for the start month specified in the Exhibit 1 file. The monthly volumes provided in the Exhibit 1 file for each account are burnertip volumes and will be the contract volumes for any awarded contract(s). GSA will only be providing monthly data in the Exhibit 1 file and will not be providing daily or hourly volumes for any of the included accounts.

All questions and clarifications regarding technical proposal submissions, terms of this solicitation and pricing products must be submitted in writing to ebony.atkinson@gsa.gov, nilka.diaz@gsa.gov and david.hague@gsa.gov no later than 3:00 PM EST on January 31, 2024.

Offeror must submit one (1) original technical proposal with signatures on all documents as required. Evidence of Technical Qualification must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. EST on February 13, 2024. E-mail, do not mail, submissions of the Evidence of Technical Acceptability. Offerors should submit proposals directly to ebony.atkinson@gsa.gov, nilka.diaz@gsa.gov and david.hague@gsa.gov. Only e-mail submissions will be accepted and the e-mail must be marked as RFP 47PA0724R0003. Note that GSA will not accept submissions via file servers or other means where GSA is required to download part or all of the technical proposal submission from the offeror’s site or a third-party site.

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