Specifications include, but are not limited to: Southern University at Shreveport Louisiana (hereinafter referred to as User Agency) seeks proposals from interested Energy Services Companies (ESCOs) to conduct a technical energy audit of facilities and implement an Energy Performance Contract, in order to identify and implement capital improvements to reduce energy, operational and related costs in facilities such that annual cost savings are applied to annual payments for improvements; User Agency seeks to maximize energy cost savings and related costs in order to pay for facility upgrades and services. Services and capital improvements will be financed through an Energy Savings Performance Contract which: incurs no initial capital costs (with option for User Agency to provide initial capital if desired) achieves significant long-term cost savings achieves a guarantee for cost savings