Clean Green Schools Initiative

Description of goods to services to be bid: The P-12 Schools: Clean Green Schools Initiative is available to help public schools that traditionally lack resources to invest in infrastructure improvements become healthier, more productive learning environments. The program provides funding for schools to implement construction projects that decarbonize their building portfolio and enhance extreme heat resilience, such as comprehensive retrofits that impact energy consumption and overall building load, electrification readiness projects, and conversion of central heating and/or cooling plants to clean energy technologies such as heat pumps. Schools participating in the program may also receive funding to support eligible activities that create or further clean energy educational opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding community. Summary of Revisions: The following changes have been made to PON 4924, Clean Green Schools Initiative: • Section I. Introduction has been updated. • Section II. Program Definitions has been updated. • Section III. School Eligibility has been deleted. • Section IV. Program and Application Requirements – Track I has been deleted. • Section V. Program and Proposal Requirements has been updated (now section III). • Section VI. Proposal Evaluation has been updated (now section IV). • Section V. Clean Energy Educational and Professional Development Activities has been updated. • Section VI. General Conditions has been updated. • Section VII. Attachments has been updated. • Attachment A – Track I Program Application has been replaced with the “Climate Hazard Screening Form.” • Attachment B –School Authorization Form has been updated. • Attachment C – Sample Agreement has been updated. • Attachment D –Proposal Template has been updated. • Attachment E –Building Impacts Table has been updated. • Attachment F –Milestone Payment Schedule has been updated. • Various programmatic clarifications including, but not limited to, applicant and project eligibility, funding amounts and caps, program requirements and an updated evaluation criteria. If changes are made to this solicitation notification will be posted on NYSERDA’s website at:www.nyserda.ny.gov/funding-opportunities Eligibility/Qualifications Requirements/Preferences: All public school districts across NYS that are designated as Priority Districts or public school buildings, and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) buildings which are located in a disadvantaged community. 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%