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Resolution to Approve a Professional Services Agreement with Oak Electric Service, Inc. for Electrical, Solar, and Storage Services Related to Bryant Neighborhood Decarbonization Work ($800,000.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and consideration is a Professional Services Agreement with Oak Electric Service, Inc. to complete electrical, solar, and storage-related service work in homes within the Bryant neighborhood as part of the City's neighborhood decarbonization work there.
As background, for over three (3) years, City staff have been working with the residents of the Bryant neighborhood and Community Action Network (CAN) to determine what it would look like to make Bryant one of the nation's most sustainable and resilient existing neighborhoods. Ideas emerging through these engagements informed a scope of services and fundraising efforts by both the City and Community Action Network. This includes two relatively recent grants the Office of Sustainability and Innovations won from the Michigan Public Service Commission (totaling $3.1 million) to implement solutions such as weatherization, flood remediation, appliance replacements, electrical upgrades, solar, and energy storage solutions in the Bryant neighborhood and a $5,000,000.00 award from the State of Michigan to test a Virtual Power Plant in Bryant. Both of these awards include funding for solar, storage, and electrical work.
To prepare for this work, the City issued a Request for Proposals (RFP # 25-21: Sustainability and Energy-Related Improvements in the Bryant Neighborhood) in April 2025. Responses to the RFP were due on May 30, 2025. Given the complexity of the needed work in Bryant, the RFP requested that interested firms bid on at least one of six areas of service: weatherization services; mechanical contractor (HVAC) services; electrical contractor services; solar and battery energy storage contractor services; drainage, water, and sewer contractor services; and appliance replace...
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