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Reference: Budget Amendment for Energy Audit Contract with Honeywell
To: Mayor Richard N. McLean and Members of City Council
Through: Manuel Esquibel, City Manager
Prepared By: Margaret Brocklander
Date Prepared: 3-11-2015
PURPOSE
Approval of the Energy Performance Contract with Honeywell.
BACKGROUND
The Colorado Energy Office has pre-qualified Energy Services Companies (ESCO) to assist Colorado agencies in selection of a company for the purpose of entering into an Energy Performance Contract Program (EPC). The EPC is a contract between the contracting agency and a qualified energy service company for the identification, evaluation, recommendation, design and construction of energy conservation measures, including a design-build contract, that guarantee energy savings.
Honeywell Building Solutions is a Colorado Energy Office pre-qualified Energy Services Company. In 2014, Honeywell was selected through a competitive proposal process to analyze various energy efficiency projects for the City. They have been working closely with staff since September on the 1st level of a 4-level development and implementation process. The level 1 efforts were focused around understanding the City's facility, utility and infrastructure needs and developing a preliminary list of recommended measures that warranted further analysis. Honeywell worked closely with staff at no cost to the City to accomplish this, and the activities and deliverables generally included:
* Walkthrough assessment of city facilities, water system and wastewater system
* Interviews with staff
* Energy benchmarking
* Preliminary scoping and establishment of line item simple payback ranges
* Development of interactive financial modeling tool
* Prioritization of improvements & winnowing down of list of potential improvements based on needs & financial criteria
* Identification of sustainability management system/SMS plan components
An examp...
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