Specifications include, but are not limited to: The DPA seeks assistance from qualified firms and individuals to provide professional public utility consulting service to the DPA in exercising its statutory duty of advocating for the lowest reasonable rates for residential and small commercial customers, consistent with an equitable distribution of rates among all rate classes and the maintenance of adequate utility service. The consulting services being requested in this proceeding have been broken down into the tasks identified below. Offerors submitting bids should assume that this application will become a litigated proceeding. The successful offeror(s) will be required to analyze the Companys application, schedules and pre-filed testimonies and draft discovery questions. Additionally, the selected offeror(s) will be expected to assist in the development of cross-examination of the utilitys prefiled testimony and exhibits to develop, present, and stand cross-examination on direct testimony and to assist DPA Counsel, as needed, in the briefing and presentation of the DPAs case to the Hearing Examiner and to the Commission. This may also include the preparation of surrebuttal testimony. Professional assistance may also be required in the post-hearing phases of the proceedings, which may include the preparation of explanations, summaries, schedules, and exhibits as may be required by the Hearing Examiner, DPA Counsel, or by the PSC. The selected offeror(s) will be expected to adhere to any formal procedural schedule entered in the case. DPA seeks from the bidder(s) a firm total not-to-exceed price for complete performance of these tasks and a list of individuals and their qualifications who will be performing the tasks.
