- (1) For the purposes of this section, “acknowledgment” is a finding by the Commission that an electric company’s final shortlist of bid responses appears reasonable at the time of acknowledgment and was determined in a manner consistent with the rules in this division.
- (2) An electric company must request that the Commission acknowledge the electric company's final shortlist of bids before it may begin negotiations. Acknowledgment of a shortlist has the same legal force and effect as a Commission-acknowledged IRP in any future cost recovery proceeding.
- (3) A request for acknowledgment must include, at a minimum, the IE's closing report, the electric company’s final shortlist of responsive bids, all sensitivity analyses performed, and a detailed evaluation of the performance of bids on the final shortlist under the portfolio analysis required under OAR 860-089-0475(5).
- (4) The Commission will generally issue a decision on the request for acknowledgment within 60 days of receipt of the electric company’s filing.
- (5) The electric company must make a publicly available filing in the RFP docket providing the average bid score and the average price of a resource on its final shortlist.
- (6) Following execution of all contracts resulting from an RFP or cancellation of the RFP, the electric company must provide information, on request, to a bidder about the bidder’s bid score.
Statutory/Other Authority
ORS 756.060 & ORS 469A.075
Statutes/Other Implemented
ORS 469A.075 & ORS 756.040
History
PUC 2-2026, amend filed 03/23/2026, effective 03/23/2026
PUC 4-2018, adopt filed 08/30/2018, effective 08/30/2018