90-4-1105. Alternative selection process. The department may solicit requests for qualifications and proposals for qualified providers to offer energy performance contracts to local government units. The department shall give at least 14 days' public notice of a request for qualifications and proposals. The notice must be published at least once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in at least two major daily newspapers in Montana, posted on the department's website, and sent to vendors known by the department to be offering energy performance contracts. The department shall evaluate the qualifications on the basis of the capabilities and criteria contained in 90-4-1104(2). The department may then select qualified providers and negotiate energy performance contract terms with each qualified provider that may be used by a local government unit as the basis for its energy performance contract with that qualified provider without following the process provided in 90-4-1104.

     History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 162, L. 2005.