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Single Source Justification Western Area Power Administration

FAR 13.106-l(b)(l), Simplified Acquisitions

18WA127974

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting office.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Western Area Power Administration Upper Great Plains Region UGP PO Box 35800 Billings, MT 59107

2. Description of supply or service required to meet the agency's needs. (Requestor)

Negotiated sole source of Genscape Power RT and Power IQ data and forecasting services. This will be a fixed price contract for a period of24 months from October 1st 2018 to September 30th 2020 for both the Genscape PowerRT and PowerIQ products.

3. The rationale or circumstances for limiting competition. (Requestor and Procurement)

Genscape's PowerRTTM product is the only service on the market that provides real-time measurements of power plant generation output. This data is produced by a network of solar powered electromagnetic frequency monitors that are deployed on nearly 60% of all power plant capacity in the United States. The technology that captures this data is patented by Genscape and the capabilities are proprietary to Genscape. The data and reports are available through either a data feed or Genscape's PowerIQ™ services through a Internet browser.

Genscape's PowerIQ™ service is a fundamentals based forecasting platform that utilizes patented PowerRT data to generate forecasted Balance of the day and Next Day flows and pricing. In addition to

Utilizing proprietary PowerRTrM generation data, the PowerIQ™ service is driven by a security constrained economic dispatch model (SEER), a proprietary model built by Genscape developers. At the backbone of the model is an unmasked bid set for all generators for each ISO that allows Genscape analysts to build a highly accurate supply stack. The PowerIQ™ service also utilizes a proprietary Neural Network model to produce daily load forecasts that are reviewed and adjusted by Genscape meteorologists each morning and made available for use. Also unique to the service is access to system analysts who run daily simulation studies and provide briefings on a daily basis about market congestion, load forecasts, system outages and prices in the market.