RFQ Healthier Home and Accessibility
ENCOLOR LLC (ENCOLOR) is issuing this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) on behalf of Leidos Engineering LLC (Leidos) to identify a partner or partners to provide implementation services for the Ameren Illinois’ Healthier Homes Channel and/or the Accessibility Pilot beginning in mid-2023 through 2025. Bidders can choose to bid on one or both of the initiatives. The selected bidder(s) will subcontract with Leidos, the prime implementer of the Ameren Illinois’ Energy Efficiency Program. Local and/or diverse suppliers are encouraged to review and respond to the RFP.
Initiative Overviews
Healthier Homes is an integrated service model for delivering energy and health related products and services. Eligible customers can receive assessments, no-cost home upgrades and inspection in addition to indoor air quality monitoring. The successful bidder will work with customers living with respiratory ailments in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities, providing home health and energy assessments and installing appropriate technologies to improve efficiency and occupant health.
The Accessibility Offering is intended to enhance the lives of Residential customers with disabilities through various smart home devices installed at no cost to the customers. The smart devices include smart speakers, voice-activated lighting and other devices, smart thermostats and advanced power strips to help enhance the customers’ lives by making their homes more accessible, safer, and energy-efficient.
This RFP is being reissued in September of 2023, more information can be found here.
Please note that the deadline for submitting proposals in response to the RFP has been extended to August 8, 2023, at 4 PM Central.
Goals and Responsibilities
The Initiatives have these foundational goals:
- Target potential customers who self-identify with respiratory ailments
- Reduce environmental triggers and improve indoor air quality, as confirmed by air quality monitors
- Demonstrate to healthcare partners a path to a future, sustainable partnership, expanding the reach and scope of the program offering as healthcare dollars contributes to healthy outcomes
- Advance the Market Development Initiative (MDI) goals
- Build relationships with customers, community partners, and Program Allies
- Determine the scalability of the effort
The selected implementer(s) will have a key role in implementing the Initiatives. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Working with healthcare providers and local community organizations to identify potential program participants.
- Support customer enrollment through a self-assessment for respiratory ailments.
- Perform a home health and energy assessment and install weatherization measures at homes based on a screening survey and/or healthcare organization referral. Energy Technicians must be a Healthy Homes Evaluator (HHE) through the Building Performance Institute (BPI).
- For more complex installations, schedule a Program Ally installation and follow-up appointments in conjunction with existing Ameren Illinois Income Qualified Single Family channel.
- Build, train, and maintain a specialized network of local Program Allies
- Gather referrals from EE program staff and partners, such as Easter Seals and Peoria Production Shop.
- Recruit and qualify customers.
- Conduct in-home assessments with a qualified Energy Technician that can direct install applicable measures.
- For more complex installations, schedule a Program Ally installation and follow-up appointments in conjunction with existing Ameren Illinois Income Qualified Single Family channel.
- Provide monitoring and support, as necessary, after installation is complete.
- Work with partners to manage inventory including ordering, accounting, and inventory tracking for measures/products.
- Build, train and maintain a specialized network of local Program Allies that are qualified to install smart home technologies.
*Estimated dates; subject to change.
- Healthier Homes Accessibility Pilot RFP 06.30.2023
- Supplier Questionnaire and Supplier Diversity Plan
- Budget and Energy Savings Template
- Ameren Healthier Homes Channel and Accessibility Pilot Q & A
- Sample Subcontract for Leidos Contracts with Ameren IL
- Program Services Agreement Flow-down Provisions
- Ameren IL CyberSecurity Terms and Conditions
- Additional CyberSecurity Terms for Leidos Subcontractors
- Leidos-Ameren IL Data Governance Questionnaire
- Powered By Diversity Guide – Updated for 2023
- RFP General Provisions
- Intent to Bid and General Company Information Form
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