Specifications include, but are not limited to: Tasks for the consultant(s) may include, but are not limited to, the following: • Capital Investment analysis. • Operations & Maintenance (O&M) expense analysis. 1. A comprehensive comparison assessment examining physical infrastructure assets. 2. Analyzing assets conditions, whether other engineering/operations criteria militating in favor of asset replacement. 3. Cost analysis. 4. Cost-control analysis. 5. Asset-Based valuation analysis. 6. O&M recurrent expense schedule analysis. 7. Ancillary loading factor analysis. 8. Provide side-by-side comparisons between the last electric or gas test year O&M expenditures, and the current test year values. If new categories of O&M have appeared in utilities schedules since the last test year, justifications should be elicited by the Consultant from utilities by data requests. 9. Assess the need of a project or program, alternatives considered, timing of the project, accuracy of cost estimations, and criteria used in the selections. 10. Assessing the costs and benefits of various activities, policies, or regulations that affect the Utility Industry. 11. Writing technical documents to communicate study results. 12. Collecting and analyzing data to compare the industry specific implications of economic policy or practice alternatives. 13. Preparing and delivering presentations or deliverables to communicate industry specific results. 14. Developing economic models, forecasts, or scenarios to predict future economic and industry specific outcomes. 15. Performing complex, dynamic, and integrated mathematical modeling of industry specific, or economic systems. 16. Writing industry specific, or economic impact statements to inform decision makers for policies, standards, or programs. 17. Monitoring or analyzing market and industry specific trends. 18. Developing industry specific research project plans, including information on budgets, goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements. 19. Analyzing industry specific business or financial data. 20. Applying mathematical models of industry specific financial or business conditions. 21. Analyzing industry specific new legislation to determine impact on risk exposure.
