DRAFT SOLICITATION Defense Energy Consortium (DECo) Consortium Management Organization (CMO)view on SAM.gov

THIS IS A DRAFT SOLICITATION (Please Register for Industry Day) Industry Day will be Monday, June 29th, 11:00-12:00 EDT. The registration link is https://bahmeet.webex.com/weblink/register/r1491d8205dfd726ffd2133d058adf1cd or you can find the link in the links section below. Please complete the Feedback Form at the attached link https://forms.osi.apps.mil/r/i6Ckyeh5xk or in the links section below. 1.0 REQUIREMENT Department of Defense (DoD) installations largely rely on off-site energy providers to support land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace-based national security missions. This dependence creates unacceptable risks, because grid outages caused by maintenance issues, extreme weather, and attacks by determined adversaries may impact our national security missions. To ensure mission continuity even during a grid outage, congress has mandated that DoD achieve by 2030 at least 99.9% energy resilience year-round (i.e., no more than 8.76 hours of downtime annually) for all of its critical missions at all DoD installations (See 10 U.S.C. § 2920). The Department of the Air Force (DAF) alone has identified nearly 4,000 resilience gaps at its installations worldwide that need rapid and cost-effective mitigation. Meeting this challenge requires DAF to access innovative energy resilience technologies, deploy commercial off-the-shelf technologies, and implement new business models at an enterprise-wide scale with commercial speed. Concerned that DoD and the military services are unable to access or deploy these technologies and business models at the scale, speed, and cost-effectiveness required to meet its energy resilience challenges, Congress has encouraged DoD to leverage its authority pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 4022, to partner with a third-party consortium dedicated to military installation resilience and energy innovation.1 10 U.S.C. § 4022 authorizes DoD to conduct prototype projects that are directly relevant to enhancing DoD's mission effectiveness. Other Transaction Authority (OTA) is an alternative to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)‐based acquisitions that 1) enables innovative, non-traditional defense contractors to engage with DoD, 2) identifies and realize teaming opportunities among entities to promote integrated research and prototyping efficiencies, 3) improves the timeline from solicitation to award for DoD prototypes, 4) and reduces the cost and improves integration of energy resilience prototypes. Because energy innovation is rapidly occurring in the private sector and around the world, establishing a public-private partnership with streamlined processes will help DAF access this innovation to strengthen the energy resilience of its installations. 1.1 Consortium Management Organization (CMO) DAF is issuing this competitive RFS to select a CMO with whom to establish the Defense Energy Consortium (DECo), a first-of-its-kind, public-private partnership where the members of the consortium will be responsible for fully fi…