The following types of U.S. based entities are eligible to participate as a prime
subcontractor:
• Non-profit entities, including energy cooperatives; and
• State and local governmental entities; and
• Any federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and villages,
inclusive of any Alaska Native village or regional corporation as defined in or
established pursuant to the Alaska Native Settlement Act.
Additional criteria:
• From or directly representing specific underserved and indigenous communities in
remote, rural and islanded regions of Alaska, Hawai’i, and Tribal lands in the west
and mid-west.
• Proposals must identify at least one (1) area in the United States (including U.S.
territories) with a population of not more than 10,000 (using the 2020 Census
Bureau figures) that will benefit from the proposal. The identified area must be
either: (a) a city, town or other unincorporated municipality or (b) a Census
Designated Place (CDP) or similarly discreet and identifiable community that is not
located within an incorporated municipality.
• Intended to use certified, listed, or commercially available technology in any project
development.
Description
The objective of the C-MAP solicitation is to provide funding and coordinated technical assistance to communities and microgrid development companies, supported by a wider community partnership and additional technical services. Through C-MAP and this solicitation, this project will enable collaboration with and between communities and provide needed funding and support for them to improve the operation, performance, and efficiency of their energy systems, at least partially by incorporating more locally available renewable energy and other innovative energy technologies into existing microgrid power systems. For additional details please see the attachmed documents.
Project description
The 2024 Community Microgrid Development Partnership Awards (C-MAP) is comprised
of four (4) different topic areas, as specified and further described in the Statement of
Work (Attachment 1), dated, October 2, 2024:
• Regional Microgrid Community Operations Assistance
• Regional Microgrid Community Development Assistance
• Microgrid Development
• Microgrid Transformation
Proposal submissions should address individual topic areas. Offerors may submit
separate proposals for multiple topic areas. Do not submit proposals that combine topic
areas. Communities or community groups may be part of multiple proposals.
Proposals will be used as a basis to develop a performance work statement which will
become Appendix A – Statement of Work (SOW) for each individual subcontract award.
C-MAP is focused on microgrid energy systems serving the needs of underserved and
Indigenous communities that are electrically isolated or are designed to operate
independently of the grid for prolonged periods of time. This solicitation uses the U.S.
Department of Energy definition of a microgrid as ‘‘a group of interconnected loads and
distributed energy resources within clearly defined electrical boundaries that acts as a
single controllable entity with respect to the grid. It can connect and disconnect from the
grid to operate in grid-connected or island mode” but to be eligible for an award from this
solicitation the microgrid (if primally designed to be grid-connected) is expected to operate
independently of an external grid for long periods of time.
The following types of U.S. based entities are eligible to participate as a prime
subcontractor:
• Non-profit entities, including energy cooperatives; and
• State and local governmental entities; and
• Any federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and villages,
inclusive of any Alaska Native village or regional corporation as defined in or
established pursuant to the Alaska Native Settlement Act.
Additional criteria:
• From or directly representing specific underserved and indigenous communities in
remote, rural1 and islanded regions of Alaska, Hawai’i, and Tribal lands in the west
and mid-west.
• Proposals must identify at least one (1) area in the United States (including U.S.
territories) with a population of not more than 10,000 (using the 2020 Census
Bureau figures) that will benefit from the proposal. The identified area must be
either: (a) a city, town or other unincorporated municipality or (b) a Census
Designated Place (CDP) or similarly discreet and identifiable community that is not
located within an incorporated municipality.
• Intended to use certified, listed, or commercially available technology in any project
development.