CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Waive the applicable provisions of the Naperville Procurement Code and award Procurement 24-156, Energy Management Consultant, to Customized Energy Solutions, for an amount not to exceed $86,100 and for a three month term (requires 6 positive votes)
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DEPARTMENT: Electric Utility
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Groth, Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
In 2007, the City of Naperville entered into a contract with the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency (IMEA), a not-for-profit organization, to supply the City with energy and services through September 30, 2035. IMEA was formed in 1984 and currently provides energy and services to 32 municipalities throughout the State of Illinois. The City's goal of this long-term contract was to provide stable energy prices to residents and businesses in the City.
When the City signed its contract with IMEA, the City required IMEA to participate in Prairie State Energy Campus as IMEA did not have enough capacity and energy to serve the City. During the period between 2007 and 2011, when Prairie State came online, the City procured energy from Goldman Sachs. During this period IMEA was providing services to the City for compliance-related items as well as advising the City on legal, regulatory, and other matters; as they do today. Over the past 17 years, IMEA has provided stable energy pricing to the City while performing many functions that the Utility is not staffed to handle on its own.
The City, with just over 10 years left on the existing IMEA contract, must begin planning how to fulfill utility-required services and energy procurement beyond 2035. This timeline is critical because some options may take significant time to implement, just as the original IMEA contract took time to implement.
To help with this planning effort the City, the City issued RFP 23-240, Energy Management Consulting Services in December 2023, seeking consultants to help outline the op...
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