Purchasing Policy No. 3
Exhibit 1, Page 1 of 3
62-0760 (Rev 11/00)
Purchasing Department
CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT
Contract Opportunity Announcement
Professional Service Contract
Construction Contract
x
Service Contract
Material Requirement
Other
Contract Opportunity Title:
Estimated Contract Value
(Range):
Investment Recovery (Metals, Plastic, Transformers)
RFI 5762
$10 to $15 Million Dollars
Work Location:
PG&E Service Territory (From Kern County in the South to the
Oregon Border in the North, from the Pacific Ocean in the West to
the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the East, approximately 74,000
square miles)
Deadline:
October 20, 2010 4pm
Purchasing Policy No. 3
Exhibit 1, Page 2 of 3
62-0760 (Rev 11/00)
Purchasing Department
Contract Opportunity Description:
PG&E is in the process of identifying companies that are able to provide a variety of
Investment Recovery services within our service territory (Northern and Central California).
Investment Recovery encompasses:
1. Scrap Metal Recovery (Iron, Aluminum, Copper, Steel)
2. Oil Filled Equipment 49ppm PCB and under (e.g. Transformers, Regulators, Circuit
Breakers)
3. Meters (Electric and Gas)
4. Scrap Plastics (PVC, HDPE)
Services in this effort include:
1. Substation Decommissioning
2. Routine pick-up of metal, plastic and equipment from approximately 140 PG&E
locations.
3. Disposition and recycling of commodities.
4. Monthly record keeping and reporting.
Services not included:
1. Computers and peripherals
2. Hazardous Waste (Oil filled equipment with PCB >50ppm)
3. Waste transformer oil
PG&E is interested in maximizing our return for these commodities.
One of PG&E’s values is environmental stewardship. As a result, all materials must be
properly and safely managed to their end disposition. Any company submitting an RFI must
be properly permitted in California or any other competent jurisdiction to perform the services
requested and is subject to an environmental review.
Suppliers interested in pre-qualifying for this work must respond to the Request for
Information (RFI) by no later than 4:00 p.m. (Pacific), Wednesday, October 20, 2010.
Failure to respond by this date may result in your company being eliminated from
further consideration. The RFI document can be accessed at www.poweradvocate.com.
Please follow the instructions below in order to register with Power Advocate so you can
access the RFI document. If you are unable to respond to or access the RFI online, please
contact the PG&E representative listed below for a hard copy. Participation in any
Request for Proposal (RFP) will be by invitation only from PG&E.
PG&E Contact:
Department:
Jimmy Ohki
Sourcing
E-Mail Address:
Date Submitted:
JEOc@pge.com
Purchasing Policy No. 3
Exhibit 1, Page 3 of 3
62-0760 (Rev 11/00)
Purchasing Department
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), incorporated in 1905, is one of the largest combination
natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Our primary business is the transmission and
delivery of energy to within our service territory. Based in San Francisco, the company is a wholly
owned subsidiary of PG&E Corporation.
PG&E provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 14 million people throughout a
70,000 square mile service area in northern and central California. Our customers include over
20,000 schools, 3,000 hospitals, 20,000 high-tech companies, and 700 military facilities. As the
primary natural gas and electric service provider for Central and Northern California, PG&E’s service
territory stretches from Eureka in the north to Bakersfield in the south, and from the Pacific Ocean in
the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east. PG&E provides electricity to over 4.9 million customers
and natural gas to over 3.9 million customers.
The purpose of this RFI is to gather information about your company’s ability to provide Investment
Recovery services to PG&E. The information that you provide in the RFI response may be used by
PG&E to make decisions concerning your company’s eligibility to participate in a future Request for
Proposal (RFP). Please note that this is not an RFP and that there will be no contract awarded
based strictly on your company’s response to this RFI.
As previously indicated, the RFI can be obtained by accessing the Power Advocate website. To
register with Power Advocate, please visit www.poweradvocate.com and select “Register.” Select “I
am registering as a supplier” and in the Referral Information section enter that you were referred by
Jimmy Ohki of PG&E and are requesting access to “Investment Recovery (Metals, Plastic,
Transformer) RFI 5762.”
After you have completed your registration you will receive an email when it has been approved.
Please allow at least one (1) business day for your registration to be completed.
If you have an existing account on www.poweradvocate.com send an email with account information
to support@poweradvocate.com indicating that you would like to participate in the event listed above.
If you have any questions with accessing Power Advocate, contact the Power Advocate Customer
Service Desk at support@poweradvocate.com or by phone at 857-453-5800.
Please Note: In order to successfully complete the RFI, suppliers must complete both
questionnaires under the “Commercial” and “Technical” tabs of the “Investment Recovery
(Metals, Plastic, Transformer) RFI 5762.” Failure to complete both questionnaires fully may impact
your company’s eligibility to participate in a future RFP for this event. Suppliers should check the RFI
tab on a periodical basis for any updated information such as general questions and answers and
updated schedule information which may have been posted to the event – PG&E will not advise
suppliers that information may have been posted to the event once the event has opened.
Questionnaires may be completed and existing responses added, edited, and/or changed throughout
the RFI event until the event closes. This RFI event will close at 04:00:00 PM PDT 10/20/10. No
information will be accepted in the RFI after this time/date.
If you have any questions regarding this contract opportunity announcement or the RFI document
itself, please feel free to contact Jimmy Ohki at PG&E by email at JEOc@pge.com. Thank you for
your interest in providing services to PG&E.