Frontier Energy CFS Maintenance Guide GFENCoBranding Proposal For SoCalGas Ed Materials

1 October 14th, 2020 Proposal for Services - Commercial Food Service Maintenance Guide Modification and Joint Promotion for GFEN Partner Utilities Between Name: Barbara Stinson Company: Energy Solutions Center Address: 400 North Capitol St NW Ste #450 Address: Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 610-468-9832 E-mail:[email protected] And Frontier Energy, Inc. (Consultant) 12949 Alcosta Blvd, Suite 101 San Ramon, CA 94583 Project Name Modify and Jointly Promote the SoCalGas USER’S GUIDE TO CLEANING AND MAINTAINING NATURAL GAS FOODSERVICE EQUIPMENT for use by GFEN and member utilities. Project Time Frame: November 2020 – March 2021 Background In 2016, SoCalGas published aUSER’S GUIDE TO CLEANING AND MAINTAINING NATURAL GAS FOODSERVICE EQUIPMENT. This guide is a general overview and assists operators by providing direction for cleaning and maintaining natural gas-fired commercial foodservice equipment. The guide is currently being updated by SoCalGas in partnership with Frontier Energy to add new equipment categories and, reorganized to create a basis for a series of training sessions on equipment care and maintenance. These materials are universally applicable across the U.S. and represent a valuable resource that GFEN members can share with their commercial foodservice customers. SoCalGas has offered to partner with GFEN by offering the SoCalGas Maintenance Guide as the basis for a jointly promoted version that would be shared with GFEN for web posting and use by member utilities. Frontier Energy’s Commercial Food Service (CFS) team leverages over 30 years of leadership in commercial kitchen energy efficiency and appliance performance testing to support the foodservice industry in using energy effectively. The team offers a wealth of technical resources, support services, marketing 2 approaches, and robust data and analysis to help energy providers develop energy-efficiency and training programs to effectively reach their foodservice customers. Frontier Energy will leverage these resources to support SoCalGas and GFEN education and training initiatives. Project Description Frontier Energy will create aUSER’S GUIDE TO CLEANING AND MAINTAINING NATURAL GAS FOODSERVICE EQUIPMENT (Maintenance Guide) that can be jointly promoted for use by GFEN. The jointly promoted Maintenance Guide will be created based on the SoCalGas Maintenance Guide, which is currently being updated by SoCalGas and Frontier Energy. SoCalGas and GFEN will jointly promote the Guide for three years. Project Scope and Tasks Frontier Energy will support GFEN member utilities by preparing an adaptation of theUSER’S GUIDE TO CLEANING AND MAINTAINING NATURAL GAS FOODSERVICE EQUIPMENT (Maintenance Guide) into a GFEN- SoCalGas jointly branded resource. Task 1: Usage and Co-branding of the SoCalGas Maintenance Guide Frontier Energy will coordinate meetings with GFEN, SoCalGas and Frontier Energy staff to review, plan, and agree upon modifications to the SoCalGas Maintenance Guide needed to create a jointly promoted Maintenance Guide that serves GFEN member utilities outside of California. It will be necessary to agree on the proper GFEN logo use and to highlight any language in the SoCalGas guide that needs to be modified or replaced. Frontier energy will revise and edit the text as needed and reformat the guide as required. Frontier will manage the comment and revision process for SoCalGas and GFEN and will facilitate two rounds of comments and revisions before the document is finalized. Once finalized, Frontier will manage the document control and will create a secure and downloadable pdf version for website distribution. Utilization of the jointly branded materials will be allowed for three (3) years. Task Deliverables: 1.Meetings, planning, and ongoing communications needed to review, plan, and agree upon modifications to the SoCalGas Maintenance Guide, 2.Text creation and editing support for a jointly branded Maintenance Guide, including the GFEN logo and disclaimers, 3.Management and coordination of the draft and final editing process with GFEN and SoCalGas. 4.Creation of the final document in a downloadable pdf format. Proposed Cost: $30,000 Cost Proposal: Any work requested by the client, outside of the tasks scoped with fixed pricing, are to be delivered on a Time & Materials basis with a Not-to-Exceed amount for the entire contract. The not-to-exceed amount includes all labor and direct expense costs associated with the scope of work. The total program implementation cost will be kept within the total Not-to-Exceed. 3 Table 1. Task Budget and Deliverables TaskDescriptionKey DeliverablesBudget 1Creation of GFEN Maintenance Guide based on SoCalGas Guide Modify existing Guide with new text and graphical update for use by GFEN member utilities $30,000 TOTAL, FIXED COST$30,000 Any work requested by the client, outside of the tasks scoped with fixed pricing, would be billed at an hourly rate reflected below in the Frontier Energy Resources Rate Schedule. Table 2. Frontier Energy Consulting Rates Staffing Direct LaborCategory Rate ($) 2020 hourly rates Category Rate ($) 2021 hourly rates President$ 290.00$ 295.00 Vice President$ 285.00$ 290.00 Sr. Director$ 285.00$ 290.00 Director / Principal Consultant$ 265.00$ 270.00 Sr.Manager / Engineering Manager$ 235.00$ 240.00 Manager$ 209.00$ 213.00 Sr. Engineer / Sr. Program Manager$ 189.00$ 193.00 Engineer / Program Manager$ 159.00$ 162.00 Sr. Program Consultant / Sr. Analyst$ 145.00$ 148.00 Program Consultant / Analyst$ 126.00$ 128.00 Sr. Program Coordinator / Sr. Technician$ 106.00$ 108.00 Program Coordinator / Technician$ 91.00$ 93.00 Program Associate$ 75.00$ 77.00 Administrative$ 75.00$ 75.00 Thank you for your consideration. ACCEPTANCE: Signing below indicates acceptance of this proposal. _____________________________________ Barbara Stinson Date Energy Solutions Center