U.S Army awards small firms $7B renewable energy Multiple Award Task Order Contract Power and Energy

The final round of solar technology contracts awarded by the Army, that will assist a $7 billion renewable and alternative energy power production for Department of Defense installations Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC).

The $7 billion MATOC established mainly to use for Power Purchase Agreements comprising renewable or alternative energy projects greater than 10 megawatts by the U.S. Army Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

These contracts will back up the Army’s accomplishment of its congressionally assigned energy task of 25 percent production of energy from renewable sources by 2025, and enhancing installation energy security and sustainability.

The recent contract awards add 11 small firms to the pool of qualified contractors who will be entitled to bid on future individual solar technology project task orders.

Following are the companies receiving contracts are:

Bay Electric Co., Inc., Newport News, Va., BITHENERGY, Inc., Baltimore, Md., Ecoplexus, San Francisco, Calif., Bright Light Federal LLC, Littleton, Colo., Essex Construction, LLC, Upper Marlboro, Md., Infinity Development Partners, LLC, New Braunfels, Texas, Indian Energy LLC, Newport Beach, Calif., Legatus6 LLC, Chevy Chase, Md., Scatec Solar North America, Inc., Sausalito, Calif., SunLight General Capital LLC, New York, N.Y., Scatec Solar North America, Inc., Sausalito, Calif., SunLight General Capital LLC, New York, N.Y., Third Sun Solar, LLC, Athens, Ohio.

The MATOC now covers 49 solar technology companies, 15 biomass technologies, 6 geothermal technologies and 20 wind technologies.

This round of MATOC awards is in keeping with the original August 2012 Request For Proposal (RFP) that permitted for instant awards to firms inside the competitive range and additional awards to firms that qualified after further analysis by the government.

The MATOC comprises third-party funded renewable energy acquisitions and contains no Army capital or Military Construction appropriation. The Army only purchases the power from contractors who own, operate or handle the generating assets. The MATOC’s total approximated value of $7 billion relates to the total dollar cost of energy available for purchase under all Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) task orders for their entire term (up to 30 years).

As renewable energy opportunities at Army installations are evaluated and validated by the EITF, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, will issue a competitive task order RFP to the pre-qualified MATOC companies for the specific technologies. Task orders will determine the type and amount of energy to be provided to the Army installation or other federal user as well as other pertinent information for the developer to plan a response that meets the government’s requirements.