Specifications include, but are not limited to: This solicitation is being issued to solicit and procure an alternative gas supply to meet a portion of the State’s total firm requirements at its many Department of Administration buildings, Courts systems, and other State accounts. The State’s annual requirements for the firm sales accounts can be obtained through the New England Gas Company and is also included in Exhibit 1. In order to retrieve data from the utility, a Letter of Authorization (LOA) will be provided to bidders who request this. Gas requirements at the listed locations are temperature sensitive. New England Gas offers three services to these accounts: firm sales service, FT-1, and FT-2. Under FT-1 and FT-2 rates, New England Gas provides local transportation to gas suppliers who deliver gas to the City Gate. Under the terms of the New England Gas firm sales rate schedule, the State does not need to make daily nomination of its requirements and is not subject to any daily imbalance penalties or overrun penalties. However, under the New England Gas FT-1 transportation tariff, shippers are required to make daily nominations and are subject to daily imbalance penalties, monthly cashout provisions, and overrun charges. A supplemental balancing service is available to FT-1 customers who need more balancing tolerance levels than the standard 10% daily level built into the FT-1 tariff. With the supplemental balancing service, FT-1 customers may experience daily imbalance penalties. New England Gas FT-2 service does not require daily metering and imbalance service be built into the transportation rate schedule.
