Active SLED Opportunity · NEW YORK · CITY OF SYRACUSE
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The City of Syracuse seeks proposals from licensed Community Solar providers to supply discounted solar energy for 76 municipal electrical accounts totaling over 14 million kWh annually. The RFP supports the City's Climate Action Plan goals to reduce emissions and source green energy for municipal operations.
The City of Syracuse is seeking proposals from New York State licensed and regulated Community Solar providers to supply a portion of the City’s energy needs with discounted energy by becoming a customer for various solar farms in the region.
The City of Syracuse owns 190 buildings and facilities of which 184 are operationally managed by City staff. Of those 184 buildings and facilities, the City has selected electrical accounts that annually (based on fiscal year 2025) use over 10,000 kwh. This selection results in 76 disparate accounts with National Grid that the City is making available for subscription to a discounted energy source. Details on the 76 accounts’ usage is provided in Attachment 1, further information such as account number and address will be provided to the vendor upon contract award.
Electrical accounts are from various Departments within the City’s inventory of buildings and facilities to include streetlights, traffic signals, water facilities, City Hall, and other recreation and departmental buildings. Regardless of their classification, all electrical accounts are managed by the City’s Budget Office.
Combined, the 76 accounts totaled 14,480,380 kwh of use in fiscal year 2025 (July’24 to June’25). Ideally, the City would like to allocate all kwhs of use towards discounted energy sources; however, options to scale allocation over a defined timeline or based on available solar farm capacity are acceptable for this RFP.
The City of Syracuse published a municipal operations greenhouse gas emission inventory (GHGI) in 2024 that assessed scope 1 and 2 emissions across all building and facilities within the City’s operational authority. The GHGI found a 67% reduction in overall emissions, compared to the 2012 GHGI, largely due to the transition of streetlights to LED fixtures.
During the development of the City’s subsequent and inaugural Climate Action Plan, the City engaged various internal and external stakeholders through the Climate Smart Communities Sustainability Task Force to understand mutual goals towards climate resiliency that follow pragmatic climate conscious practices. Through this engagement, the strategy of Green Building and Energy Use emerged as the number one priority. As the inaugural Climate Action Plan moves towards adoption by the City of Syracuse’s Common Council in the summer of 2026, the City will act on the goals within the Plan proactively by seeking proposals to source municipal operations electrical energy from discounted energy sources that support the green economy. This RFP is not related to the City's Community Solar Campaign, launched in March 2026.
Tangentially, the City's Budget Office currently manages the City's energy through a third-party contractor. This contractor will be available for account information (address, use, history). Additionally, the City is coordinating with NYSERDA’s FlexTech program to hire an energy manager and perform ASHRAE audits. The vendor's ability to communicate and educate collaborators on operational needs and reporting findings will be a key deliverable of service.
The City is opportunistic about the ability to source their electrical energy use from discounted energy sources. We anticipate that during the period of contract with an energy provider, there may be fluctuation in necessary annual kwh allocation due to energy efficiency upgrades, but not building and facility rightsizing practices.
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The Common Council by Ordinance No. 514 adopted on September 24, 1973 requires the following information from all persons, partnerships, corporations, trusts and associations transacting business with the City of Syracuse relative to any proposed business transaction including but not limited to land purchase, construction, purchase and lease agreement.
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Under New York State Finance Law § 139-k(2), covered governmental entities are obligated to obtain specific information regarding prior non-responsibility determinations. This information must be collected in addition to the information that is separately obtained pursuant to State Finance Law § 163(9). In accordance with State Finance Law § 139-k, an Offeror must be asked to disclose whether there has been a finding of non-responsibility made within the previous four (4) years by a Government Entity due to: (a) a violation of State Finance Law § 139-j or (b) the intentional provision of false or incomplete information to a Government Entity. The terms “Offeror” and “Governmental Entity” are defined in State Finance Law § 139-k(1). State Finance Law § 139-j sets forth detailed requirements about the restrictions on Contacts during the procurement process. A violation of State Finance Law § 139-j includes, but is not limited to, an impermissible Contact during the restricted period (for example, contacting a person or entity other than the designated contact person, when such Contact does not fall within one of the exemptions).
As part of its responsibility determination, a covered governmental entity must consider whether an Offeror fails to timely disclose accurate or complete information regarding the above non-responsibility determination. In accordance with law, no Procurement Contract shall be awarded to any Offeror that fails to timely disclose accurate or complete information under this section, unless a finding is made that the award of the Procurement Contract to the Offeror is necessary to protect public property or public health safety, and that the Offeror is the only source capable of supplying the required Article of Procurement within the necessary timeframe.
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These prices have been arrived at independently without collusion, consultation, communication or agreement, for the purpose of restricting competition, as to any matter relating to such prices with any competitor,
Unless otherwise required by law, the prices which have been proposed have not been knowingly disclosed and will not knowingly be disclosed prior to opening, directly, or indirectly, to any other competitor; and
No attempt has been made or will be made by the respondent to induce any other person, partnership or corporation to submit or not to submit a quote for the purpose of restricting competition. I hereby affirm under the penalties of perjury that the foregoing statement is true. I also acknowledge notice that a false statement made in the foregoing is punishable under Article 210 of the Penal Law.
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SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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