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DOE OSTI2019

Panel Session 21: Small Business Contracting with the US DOE

This panel session provided a fast paced, high energy and thought-provoking session on how to do business with the US DOE. Charles Smith, the Director, of the US DOE Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) provided an overview of DOE OSDBU's best practices. Representatives from the Office of EM and the NNSA will give attendees insight on how to market and seek opportunities within their program offices, sites and laboratories. Also featured current DOE, small business Presidents, shared best practices on how to engage with DOE, find and win contracts. Presentations proposed include: 1 - Doing Business with the U.S. Department of Energy (Charles R. Smith, US DOE OSDBU (USA)); 2 - Small Business Contracting with the US DOE (Tamara Miles, US DOE (USA)); 3 - Small Business Contracting with NNSA (Greg Gonzales, US DOE NNSA (USA))

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE W↗
DOE OSTI2020

Panel Session 94: US DOE Procurement Opportunities and End-State Contracting Model Status

This panel focused on DoE's procurement implementation strategy and planned activities for its first-tier contractors (Tier 1 procurements). This panel also focused on the implementation status of DoE's End State Contracting Model, which uses a single-award ID/IQ approach to give DOE flexibility to better define discrete scopes of work for site closure or end states. The panelists provided their prospective on progress toward the implementation of this new approach, lessons learned and the path forward for upcoming opportunities utilizing this contracting model. Panelists with presentations: EFCOG (Billy Morrison); DOE Procurement Opportunities - 4 Ways for Small Business Participation (Anne Marie Bird); US DOE Procurement and Contracting Opportunities (Aaron Deckard)

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE W↗
DOE OSTI2025

Determining Price Reasonableness in Energy Performance Contracts

Report provides recommendations and best practices concerning fair and reasonable price determination in federal energy performance contracts (EPCs), which include energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) and utility energy service contracts (UESCs). It reflects the experiences, lessons learned, and best practices of agencies implementing EPCs, and is consistent with FEMP’s training on this subject. This is an update to the 2015 revision.

Dominy, Russ [Boston Government Services (BGS)]↗
DOE OSTI2017

Cross-scale efficient tensor contractions for coupled cluster computations through multiple programming model backends

Coupled-cluster methods provide highly accurate models of molecular structure through explicit numerical calculation of tensors representing the correlation between electrons. These calculations are dominated by a sequence of tensor contractions, motivating the development of numerical libraries for such operations. While based on matrix–matrix multiplication, these libraries are specialized to exploit symmetries in the molecular structure and in electronic interactions, and thus reduce the size of the tensor representation and the complexity of contractions. The resulting algorithms are irregular and their parallelization has been previously achieved via the use of dynamic scheduling or specialized data decompositions. We introduce our efforts to extend the Libtensor framework to work in the distributed memory environment in a scalable and energy-efficient manner. We achieve up to 240× speedup compared with the optimized shared memory implementation of Libtensor. We attain scalability to hundreds of thousands of compute cores on three distributed-memory architectures (Cray XC30 and XC40, and IBM Blue Gene/Q), and on a heterogeneous GPU-CPU system (Cray XK7). As the bottlenecks shift from being compute-bound DGEMM's to communication-bound collectives as the size of the molecular system scales, we adopt two radically different parallelization approaches for handling load-imbalance, tasking and bulk synchronous models. Nevertheless, we preserve a unified interface to both programming models to maintain the productivity of computational quantum chemists.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗
DOE OSTI2014

Point defect weakened thermal contraction in monolayer graphene

We investigate the thermal expansion behaviors of monolayer graphene and three configurations of graphene with point defects, namely the replacement of one carbon atom with a boron or nitrogen atom, or of two neighboring carbon atoms by boron-nitrogen atoms, based on calculations using first-principles density functional theory. It is found that the thermal contraction of monolayer graphene is significantly decreased by point defects. Moreover, the corresponding temperature for negative linear thermal expansion coefficient with the maximum absolute value is reduced. The cause is determined to be point defects that enhance the mechanical strength of graphene and then reduce the amplitude and phonon frequency of the out-of-plane acoustic vibration mode. Such defect weakening of graphene thermal contraction will be useful in nanotechnology to diminish the mismatching or strain between the graphene and its substrate.

37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CH↗
DOE OSTI2015

Accompanying coordinate expansion and recurrence relation method using a transfer relation scheme for electron repulsion integrals with high angular momenta and long contractions

An efficient algorithm for the rapid evaluation of electron repulsion integrals is proposed. The present method, denoted by accompanying coordinate expansion and transferred recurrence relation (ACE-TRR), is constructed using a transfer relation scheme based on the accompanying coordinate expansion and recurrence relation method. Furthermore, the ACE-TRR algorithm is extended for the general-contraction basis sets. Numerical assessments clarify the efficiency of the ACE-TRR method for the systems including heavy elements, whose orbitals have long contractions and high angular momenta, such as f- and g-orbitals.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗
DOE OSTI2012

A Business Case for Home Performance Contracting

This report was prepared by PNNL for the DOE Building America program. The report provides information for businesses considering entering the home performance contracting industry. Metrics discussed include industry trends and drivers, specific points of entry, business models, startup costs, and marketing strategies. The report includes detailed analysis of eight businesses around the country that have successfully entered the home performance contracting industry. Data is provided on their financial structures, program participation, marketing efforts, and staff training. This report will be distributed via the DOE Building America website, www.buildingamerica.gov. Individual case studies will also be cleared separately.

Building America↗
DOE OSTI2012

Building America Energy Renovations: A Business Case for Home Performance Contracting

This research report gives an overview of the needs and opportunities that exist in the U.S. home performance contracting industry. The report discusses industry trends, market drivers, different business models, and points of entry for existing and new businesses hoping to enter the home performance contracting industry. Case studies of eight companies who successfully entered the industry are provided, including business metrics, start-up costs, and marketing approaches.

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY↗
DOE OSTI2017

Utility Energy Services Contracts: Enabling Documents

The Federal Energy Management Program's 'Utility Energy Service Contracts: Enabling Documents' provide legislative information and materials that clarify the authority for federal agencies to enter into utility energy service contracts, or UESCs.

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY↗
DOE OSTI2018

Performance-Based Incentive Mechanisms in Life-Cycle Contracts

Within the framework of lean production, Russian industry needs to develop and introduce more effective mechanisms ensuring the fulfillment of state orders for capital- and technology-intensive systems, on the basis of performance-based logistics (PBL). In the present work, the introduction of PBL on the basis of a life-cycle contract for a specific program (product) is analyzed. One mechanism recommended in order to overcome the risks of indeterminacy is stepwise correction of incentive systems in the fulfillment of life-cycle contracts (with targeted increase in incentives for the attainment of specified results).

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY↗
DOE OSTI2017

Fundamentals of Thermal Expansion and Thermal Contraction

Thermal expansion is an important property of substances. Its theoretical prediction has been challenging, particularly in cases the volume decreases with temperature, i.e., thermal contraction or negative thermal expansion at high temperatures. In this paper, a new theory recently developed by the authors has been reviewed and further examined in the framework of fundamental thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Its applications to cerium with colossal thermal expansion and Fe 3 Pt with thermal contraction in certain temperature ranges are discussed. It is anticipated that this theory is not limited to volume only and can be used to predict a wide range of properties at finite temperatures.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2012

Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC): FEMP Assistance

An ESPC is a working relationship between a Federal agency and an energy service company (ESCO). The ESCO conducts a comprehensive energy audit for the Federal facility and identifies improvements to save energy. In consultation with the Federal agency, the ESCO designs and constructs a project that meets the agency’s needs and arranges the necessary funding. The ESCO guarantees the improvements will generate energy cost savings sufficient to pay for the project over the term of the contract. After the contract ends, all additional cost savings accrue to the agency.

Energy, Savings, Contracts, ESPC, FEMP, Assistance↗
DOE OSTI2013

Utility Energy Services Contracts Guide

The UESC Guide is a compilation of samples and templates developed as a resource to help contracting officers implement task orders for UESCs under existing U.S. General Services Administration areawide contracts.

FEMP↗
DOE OSTI2017

Energy Savings Performance Contract Energy Sales Agreement Toolkit

FEMP developed the Energy Savings Performance Contracting Energy Sales Agreement (ESPC ESA) Toolkit to provide federal agency contracting officers and other acquisition team members with information that will facilitate the timely execution of ESPC ESA projects.

energy sales agreements↗
DOE OSTI2019

Performance Assurance Planning: Continuous Design-Level Performance of Each Energy Conservation Measure in a Utility Energy Service Contract is Fundamental to Achieving Projected Results

Design-level performance of each energy conservation measure (ECM) in an awarded utility energy service contract (UESC) is fundamental to achieving the projected results through the term of the contract and over the life of the measure. Because the authority for a UESC does not require contractual guarantees of energy, water, or cost savings, FEMP developed a protocol for emphasizing sustained performance to help ensure projected savings are realized. The information and templates offered within this paper reflect responsible project management and oversight, align with UESC best practices, and satisfy the conditions for annual scoring provided by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). OMB memorandum M-12-21 requires, 'energy savings performance assurances,' 'measurement and verification (M&V) of savings through commissioning and retrocommissioing,' and 'competition or an alternatives analysis as part of the selection process.'

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY↗
DOE OSTI2022

Standardization of Smart Contracts for Energy Markets and Operation

This work presents a formal review of smart contracts, including definitions, technical requirements, and potential power and energy-related use cases. This includes in-depth discussions covering cybersecurity, legality and interoperability goals that must be taken into consideration by potential end-users. The paper presents a first attempt towards the standardization of smart contracts (SCs) within the field of power and energy as a work in progress activity under the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) P2418.5 Working Group. This work also proposes a holistic, language-agnostic reference model that is intended to accelerate the adoption of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) by industry stakeholders by providing standardized processes. Finally, the paper discusses key takeaways that must continue to be developed to increase SC usage within the energy industry.

Blockchain, smart contracts, DLT↗