OAR 860-089-0500: Final Short List Acknowledgment and Result Publication

(1) For the purposes of this section, “acknowledgment” is a finding by the Commission that an electric company’s final shortlist of bid responses appears reasonable at the time of acknowledgment and was determined in a manner consistent with the rules in this division. (2) An electric company must request that the Commission acknowledge the electric company's final shortlist of bids before it may begin negotiations. Acknowledgment of a shortlist has the same legal force and effect as a Commission-acknowledged IRP in any future cost recovery proceeding. (3) A request for acknowledgment must include, at a minimum, the IE's closing report, the electric company’s final shortlist of responsive bids, all sensitivity analyses performed, and a detailed evaluation of the performance of bids on the final shortlist under the portfolio analysis required under OAR 860-089-0475(5) . (4) The Commission will generally issue a decision on the request for acknowledgment within 60 days of receipt of the electric company’s filing. (5) The electric company must make a publicly available filing in the RFP docket providing the average bid score and the average price of a resource on its final shortlist. (6) Following execution of all contracts resulting from an RFP or cancellation of the RFP, the electric company must provide information, on request, to a bidder about the bidder’s bid score.