Red Deer Polytechnic - Negotiated Request for Proposal - Utilities Management Consultant

Red Deer Polytechnic is seeking an independent Utilities Management Consultant to provide strategic, turnkey advisory services for electricity and natural gas procurement, utility cost optimization, energy risk management, on-site generation integration, energy performance improvement, and long-term planning. The objective is to optimize RDP’s total delivered utility cost, budget certainty, operational resilience, emissions performance, and value for money while preserving RDP’s final decision-making authority for all supplier selection, hedging, contracting, and capital commitments. This is important because “best value” should not be limited to the lowest commodity price. For a campus, best value includes the commodity rate, delivery/tariff impacts, peak demand, consumption reduction, on-site generation performance, carbon goals, growth planning, risk tolerance, and administrative transparency.