Technical Assistance - GPI: Energy Procurement Specialist, through Green Powered Technology, LLC

This technical advisory services contract provides funding for an energy procurement specialist(s) to support ongoing and prospective procurement assistance programs under USTDA's Global Procurement Initiative: Understanding Best Value (GPI).

The energy procurement specialist(s) will provide technical, sector-specific training to foreign procurement officials on the importance of acquisition planning and understanding the whole-life costs of their investments in the energy sector.

The objective of the training provided by the specialist(s) is to help officials understand how to conduct life-cycle cost analyses and develop objective evaluation criteria to transparently and fairly assess value in large-scale, traditional, and gas-fired power plant tenders.

In essence, the specialist(s) will provide technical training on the sector-specific best practices and methodologies needed to move away from least-cost procurement methods to value-based procurement methods, which may increase opportunities for U.S. companies to bid on and potentially win international energy tenders.