Bid Solicitation

If you are serious about moving forward with a solar project, we can help take the “sales” out of the process.

In a typical sales interaction, two to five “salespeople” compete for a sale by placing a bid. Each bid requires conducting site visits, usually one to two visits each, developing a proposal and making a presentation. Often times differing technologies are proposed which make it difficult to compare the merits of each bid. We, as your PV Engineering Consultant, can manage the bid solicitation process and assure consistency among proposals. In addition, you can be confident that your system is being designed by an experienced engineer looking after your best interests instead of a salesperson.

Here is how the process works:

We first visit your site and perform a feasibility assessment to define the project scope that best meets your needs and specific site situation.

Next, on your behalf, we will write a site specific bid specification and request proposals from multiple installation companies. You can expect the bid presentations to be a much more pleasant situation. Rather than being presented with 3 to 5 “pitches” attempting to persuade and influence you towards each installer, you can have a low stress, low-pressure conversation, confident that the tightly written specification that we write will force the bids to be presented on an equal basis. The specification will cause normalized bids, so that differences in system capacity (kilowatts) efficiency, energy production, assumptions for permitting fees, sales tax, and other costs are visible and made equal.

Once bids are normalized, we will analyze the bids and present them to you. We can then assist you in selecting the best bid for your situation based on our comprehensive knowledge and experience with solar technologies, installers, and other relevant factors.