Solicitation Objectives. The Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment seeks a skilled consultant to achieve the following outcomes through this consultant solicitation: to filter, cleanse and analyze collected energy performance data, to identify key findings, develop recommendations to improve the quality and application of collected benchmarking data, and produce a reader-friendly summary report. Minimum Qualifications. Minimum qualifications are required for a Consultant to be eligible to submit a RFP response. Your submittal response must show compliance to these minimum qualifications. Those that are not responsive to these qualifications shall be rejected by the City without further consideration: Consultant must have successfully performed at least one contract with a public or private agency of similar size to the City of Seattle, with services similar to those expected by the City for this contract. Consultant must be willing to make all data and models used in the calculation public per Washington State’s public records law. Demonstrated expertise in energy analysis. Applied knowledge of statistics, quantitative and qualitative research methods. Proficiency using statistical database software including Tableau software. Demonstrated experience producing reader-friendly analysis summary reports. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Scope of Work. The consultant will conduct building characteristic and energy performance data analysis. This analysis should evaluate data accuracy, summarize building characteristics, and identify data trends and changes in building performance. The study should also analyze the data by different building types, geographic sectors of the City, and other variables. Define methodology and analysis approach The City will provide collected energy benchmarking data reported for 2012 and 2013 via MS Access (preferred) or MS and other Access exports. Annually, approximately 3,300 buildings are required to report benchmarking data to the City of Seattle. The City will provide data collected from King County Assessor records, interactions with building owners and data reported via web services from EPA’s Portfolio Manager. Review and summarize data analysis approaches used by other cities collecting and analyzing energy performance data. Review City of Seattle data analysis approach used for the 2011/2012 Benchmarking Analysis Report and identify gaps and potential revisions. Develop a methodology for the analysis study, including an approach to validate data and identify poor performing buildings. Below are the anticipated key tasks: Data cleaning
Solicitation Objectives. The Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment seeks a skilled consultant to achieve the following outcomes through this consultant solicitation: to filter, cleanse and analyze collected energy performance data, to identify key findings, develop recommendations to improve the quality and application of collected benchmarking data, and produce a reader-friendly summary report. Minimum Qualifications. Minimum qualifications are required for a Consultant to be eligible to submit a RFP response. Your submittal response must show compliance to these minimum qualifications. Those that are not responsive to these qualifications shall be rejected by the City without further consideration: Consultant must have successfully performed at least one contract with a public or private agency of similar size to the City of Seattle, with services similar to those expected by the City for this contract. Consultant must be willing to make all data and models used in the calculation public per Washington State’s public records law. Demonstrated expertise in energy analysis. Applied knowledge of statistics, quantitative and qualitative research methods. Proficiency using statistical database software including Tableau software. Demonstrated experience producing reader-friendly analysis summary reports. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Scope of Work. The consultant will conduct building characteristic and energy performance data analysis. This analysis should evaluate data accuracy, summarize building characteristics, and identify data trends and changes in building performance. The study should also analyze the data by different building types, geographic sectors of the City, and other variables. Define methodology and analysis approach The City will provide collected energy benchmarking data reported for 2012 and 2013 via MS Access (preferred) or MS and other Access exports. Annually, approximately 3,300 buildings are required to report benchmarking data to the City of Seattle. The City will provide data collected from King County Assessor records, interactions with building owners and data reported via web services from EPA’s Portfolio Manager. Review and summarize data analysis approaches used by other cities collecting and analyzing energy performance data. Review City of Seattle data analysis approach used for the 2011/2012 Benchmarking Analysis Report and identify gaps and potential revisions. Develop a methodology for the analysis study, including an approach to validate data and identify poor performing buildings. Below are the anticipated key tasks: Data cleaning
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