Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Vermont Department of Public Service (Department), which represents the public interest in utility cases before the Vermont Public Utility Commission (Commission), is soliciting proposals from qualified experts to review and make recommendations on a tariff and rate adjustment filing anticipated to be filed by Green Mountain Power (GMP) with the Commission in April, 2018. The Department expects that GMP will also file a proposed multi-year rate plan in tandem with its traditional cost of service filing. The scope of work for this RFP primarily involves the provision of expert witness services to provide an independent assessment of GMP’s proposed cost of service and rates under applicable Vermont law and ratemaking standards. However, the Department expects that the respondent(s) awarded a contract may also provide the Department with support of its review of any proposed multi-year rate plan filed by GMP. In particular, the Department seeks expert witness(es) in the following areas: (1) Utility Cost of Capital; (2) Utility Taxation; (3) Regulatory Accounting and Revenue Requirement Modeling; (4) Utility Capital Spending; (5) Utility Operations and Management Spending; (6) Utility Power Supply; (7) Multi-Year Rate Plans.
