Request for Proposals: Federal Funding Compliance Support

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has received approximately $13.5 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Section 40101d funding program, also known as the Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants. The Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants, administered by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO), seek to enhance the resilience of the electric grid, prevent outages, and mitigate the impact of disruptive events. MassCEC will distribute the funding to subrecipients to execute grid resilience and reliability projects under the program Grants for Enhancing Massachusetts Grid Resilience and Reliability. All Program subrecipients must comply with quarterly and annual federal reporting requirements as well as “flow-down” requirements, such as the Davis Bacon Act and Build America, Buy America Act.  

MassCEC seeks applications from qualified contractors who can provide subrecipient monitoring and federal compliance support. The selected contractor(s) will work with MassCEC, grant subrecipients, and vendors to ensure compliance with federal flow-down and reporting requirements. MassCEC anticipates that the initial period of performance for contractor support will be up to two years, with the possibility of renewal. 

MassCEC is closely monitoring developments at the federal level that may impact the operations of, or the availability of funding for, the program. Circumstances outside of MassCEC’s control may require that we delay or cancel awarding funds under this RFP.