The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) is helping agencies improve facility operations, upgrade infrastructure, and save taxpayer dollars by offering training and partnership opportunities with their serving utilities that explore contracting options available, including UESCs. Ideal for any size project, a UESC is a limited-source contract between a federal agency and serving utility for energy management and demand-reduction services.

This two-day advanced UESC training examines strategies and methods used by experienced contracting officers and their technical teams—from project development to contract award and post-acceptance. Attendees will work through exercises designed to develop a project using templates and samples.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, attendees will:

• The basis of the UESC authority as a tool for achieving energy and cost savings at federal facilities
• The Federal Acquisition Regulation Part that addresses acquisition of utility services
• The purpose and content of the initial project scope developed by the agency
• How and why agencies may contract with a serving utility without full and open competition, and what needs to be documented in the contract file
• The relationship, in a UESC project, between a GSA Areawide Contract, a utility-agency master agreement, the FEMP Model UESC Agreement, and a task order for design and installation of an energy project
• When to issue a task order for design and installation
• The agency’s responsibilities during design and installation
• The requirements for performance assurance of newly installed UESC projects
• FEMP’s recommendations for minimum required performance assurance activities for UESC project.