The County is soliciting submittals from qualified Contractors to provide pedestal-style dual-port AC level 2 electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) hardware, installation, operations, maintenance, repair, and network services to access EVSE and for management of user access and payments. The intent of this RFS is to identify a full-service EVSE Contractor that will install and retain ownership of the EVSE upon connection to County-installed supportive electrical infrastructure (i.e. turn-key delivery), and thereafter perform all services to sustain their operation over the term of the Contract. The County expects to pay for electricity used by the equipment, as well as a fixed annual per-unit cost for the lease of the equipment that includes maintenance and other necessary services. The County will consider leasing contracts where the County will receive revenue from user fees minus a payment processing fee. The County will only consider leasing models, sometimes referred to as “Charging as a Service.” The County is actively testing EVSE as a pilot project at select parking spaces serving certain County facilities, including the spaces and facility that are the subject of this RFS. As such, the County will require that it be provided information about customer usage, energy consumption, and other information that will later help the County decide whether and how the pilot is successful as well as ways that the provision of EVSE could be improved for any future deployment(s) at other County-owned facilities. For this project there are two locations, the Judicial Center Parking Garage and the Governmental Center Parking Garage. The Judicial Center Parking Garage is currently in the process of having the electrical infrastructure installed. The Government Center Parking Garage already has the necessary electrical infrastructure, and had EVSE chargers previously in the designated parking spaces.
