Natural Gas Asset Manager Services

The New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Sheridan Avenue Steam Plant (SASP) located at 79 Sheridan Avenue, Albany, New York generates steam for heating and cooling of the Empire State Plaza (ESP) which houses several New York State Agencies and associated entities. This plant houses boilers which produce the steam necessary to accommodate the ESP’s space heating load, domestic hot water heating load and space cooling load via steam turbine driven chillers. The SASP can burn natural gas or fuel oil. The SASP has firm delivery service via the Local Distribution Company (LDC) National Grid. OGS is directly responsible for the procurement of natural gas for the SASP and has obtained access to firm upstream pipeline capacity (Asset) to the National Grid East Gate for virtually all the SASP daily and monthly requirements. However, throughout the winter season during periods of below normal temperatures there will be a need for delivered supplemental supply above the firm upstream capacity that OGS holds. This can also be the case in the summer period when above normal temperature conditions exist where supplemental supply will be needed. The purpose of this Invitation for Bid (IFB) is to solicit bids from Asset Managers (Seller) to enter into an Asset Management Arrangement (AMA) to provide 100% or full requirements (Requirement) of OGS’ (Buyer) natural gas needs at the SASP. The Requirements will first be met by the Seller utilizing the asset assigned under the AMA, delivered at the Tier 1 price in Section 2.11. Additional supply required above the AMA volume will be priced at the Delivery Point at the Tier 2 price in Section 2.11. Please read Key Events Dates in IFB Section 1.3 and Minimum Bidder Qualifications in IFB Section 1.4.When available, the solicitation can be found on the OGSbid opportunities page at: https://ogs.ny.gov/procurement/bid-opportunities Business enterprises awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract within the past five years: None Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOB) SDVOB Goal: 0.00% Minority / Women Business Enterprise contracting goals (MWBE) MBE Goal: 0.00% WBE Goal: 0.00% Disadvantaged Business Enterprise contracting goals (DBE) DBE Goal: 0.00%