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Proposal, please contact us via the form below.
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Q7: Can you please
clarify what is meant by Section 3.0 Paragraph 5 : The awarded
Bidder shall retain full responsibility for the suitability of the
UCAP products furnished under this award.
A7: This should
be clear in its context within the RFP. The entire paragraph
containing the above excerpt (Section V.A.5) reads:
"Bidders should be aware that the market
structure within the New York Control Area (“NYCA”) could change
within the period of service contemplated by this RFP due to
regulatory or judicial action, including but not limited to
actions instituted by the NYISO, the market
operator for the NYCA. Bids cannot be contingent
upon the continuation or development of any particular form of
market structure for the NYCA. The awarded Bidder shall retain
full responsibility for the suitability of the UCAP products
furnished under this award."
Q6:
Do you have a standard form for the LC other
than the one that is used with the Transmission Capacity Purchase
Agreement?
A6:
The L/C form itself is always
supplied by the bank. The only piece the bidder supplies is the
payment terms or certificate. Please
refer to pages 3 and 4 of the RFP. We suggest you follow those
directions, and your bank should be able to provide the L/C on
that basis.
Q5: Will NYPA
consider proposals with a term that is slightly less than 5 years
given the requested start date of May 2010?
A5: As stated in
the RFP, only terms of five to twenty years will be considered.
Q4: Will NYPA accept a demand reponse bid
from Zone J? If so, what specific requirements are there?
A4: No. The current RFP scope is
limited to new or re-powered generating facilities, or qualifying
new transmission from a neighboring control area coupled with a
generation source.
Q3: Will a proposal that is from an
existing generating source but uses a new transmission line to get
in-city capacity to NYPA be considered as offering UCAP from a
proposed new facility?
A3: Yes.
Q2: Is there a firm deadline for
submittal of proposed changes to the contract documents that NYPA
provided when the RFP was issued? The RFP specified "10 days
before bid submittal."
A2: We have set close-of-business
Wednesday, December 12 as the final date for submittal of proposed
non-material changes to the contract provisions. Please be
reminded that this should take the form of a red-lined mark-up of
the document(s) that NYPA provided.
Q1:
Is it the intent of this RFQ to
encourage generation technology that is highly flexible in regards
to frequent start-stops in a day with 10 minute or less start
capability? While heat rates for combined cycle plants are
lower, are the benefits of simpler, extremely flexible, rapid
start simple-cycle applications more valued for these
benefits/features?
A1:
The principal objective of the RFP
is to secure qualifying UCAP, at the lowest possible cost, to
serve NYPA's supply obligations to its governmental customers in
New York City. Other benefits, including those of an operational
nature as raised in the above question, will be taken into
consideration; to the extent that
the benefit has monetary value (i.e., in the form of compensation
from the NYISO), and that such value is directly passed on to
NYPA, it will be factored into the economic evaluation.
