The contractor(s) chosen will be expected to assist the OCA in the review and analysis of issues impacting residential customers, and the development of positions and strategies to represent residential customers’ interests. To a significant extent, this will consist of the evaluation of revenue requirement proposals from electric, water, and natural gas utilities and other stakeholders, but it may also be useful and appropriate for the OCA to initiate its own proposals. In order to support these investigations, the successful candidate(s) will have demonstrated expertise in: energy efficiency and electrification (program design, program implementation, financing, as well as evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V)); grid modernization, distribution system and distributed resource planning processes; issues related to system and customer data (collection, customer access, third-party access, security, privacy, etc.); performance-based rates and incentives, rate design, analysis of cost-of-service studies (both marginal and embedded);
