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Single Source Justification Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)

FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), Simplified Acquisitions

21WA140942

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting office.

Department of Energy (DOE), Western Area Power Administration, Upper Great Plain Region, Billings, Montana

2. Description of supply or service required to meet the agency’s needs.

Genscape PowerRT and PowerIQ data and forecasting services. This will be a fixed price contract for a period of 12 months from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2022, for both the Genscape PowerRT and PowerIQ products.

3. The rationale or circumstances for limiting competition Genscape 's PowerRT™ 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 an 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 PowerRT™ 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 1SO that allows Genscape analysts to build a highly accurate supply stack. The PowerIQ™ service also utilize s 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.

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