ENERGY CURTAILMENT SERVICES

Location:	Illinois
Posted:	Jul 17, 2026
Due:	Jul 24, 2026
Agency:	METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	D - Automatic Data Processing and Telecommunication Services
Solicitation No:	26-RFP-01
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

ENERGY CURTAILMENT SERVICES

CONTRACT 26-RFP-01

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“District”) requests proposals

from any prospective Proposer for the above captioned subject which is described in document

26-RFP-01.

PROPOSALS ARE DUE JULY 24, 2026

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted to the District via an electronic upload to

the Euna Portal only. See “Submission Via the Euna Portal” section for instructions. Proposals will

be accepted from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. Central Time (“CT”), on July

24, 2026. Bids will be deemed non-responsive if not submitted using the project-specific Euna

URL link provided by the District with the bidding documents.

No bids will be accepted after 11:00 A.M. CT on the above scheduled due date. Faxed,

mailed, emailed, or hand delivered proposals will not be accepted. There is no Bid

Depository safe for this purpose.

The purpose of this Request for Proposal is to engage a Curtailment Service Provider to support

the District’s participation in the PJM Emergency Demand Response Program and to develop a

strategy that maximizes financial compensation. Participant curtailment supports the grid

operator in achieving critical operational goals such as frequency regulation, mitigation of peak

hourly pricing, and deferral of new generation capacity required to address short‑lived peak

demand periods during summer conditions and polar vortex events. Participants are compensated

according to their pledged load reductions. If the District is called upon to curtail energy and

cannot reach its commitment, it must be able to procure additional energy demand to meet its

obligation. There are no direct costs for the professional services supplied throughout the term

of this Proposal; the District seeks to maximize returns from the curtailment program(s).

It is understood and agreed that the professional services described herein shall be furnished by

the Proposer, as directed and ordered by the Director of Maintenance and Operations, for a period

commencing upon execution of a Contractual Agreement with the District for these professional

services, starting June 1, 2027.

The term of this agreement is three (3) years with the option of extending one or more times,

with proportional mutual benefits, where the total period does not exceed six (6) years.

The Proposer, at a minimum, shall provide a detailed narrative including specific examples and

support information of the proposed services that will be provided. This detailed narrative will

address all the services listed above and all tasks required hereunder. The format of this narrative

will correspond to the outline of tasks identified under the scope of work.

Copies of the Request for Proposal are only available online from the District’s website at

www.mwrd.org (DOING BUSINESS  PROCUREMENT & MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 

CONTRACT ANNOUNCEMENTS). No fee is required for the Request for Proposal documents. Any

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questions regarding the downloading of Request for Proposal documents should be directed to

contractdesk@mwrd.org or call (312) 751-6643.

The District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Proposer to

successfully download any and all RFP documents, including but not limited to specifications,

proposal forms and/or plans, as a result of any type of technological computer and/or software

system failure or breakdown that restricts, prohibits or prevents successful downloading of any

and all District RFP documents by the Proposer, whether caused by the District or other parties,

directly or indirectly.

Proposers are to include with their proposal signed copies of any addenda, or acknowledge receipt

of any addenda, if the District issued any addenda to this RFP. Failure to do so may be cause for

the rejection of any bid. Bidding documents are available only online, and any addenda issued

for this RFP will be available online at the District’s website, www.mwrd.org (Doing

BusinessProcurement and Materials ManagementContract Announcements). Addenda will

also be emailed/faxed to each person receiving a set of such RFP documents and to such other

prospective Proposers who have requested that they be furnished with a copy of the addenda.

If any potential Proposer contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true meaning

of any part of the specifications or other RFP documents, such inquiry should be submitted online

at the District’s website, www.mwrd.org. The path is as follows: Doing BusinessProcurement

and Materials ManagementContract Announcements. The District will provide an online

response to such inquiries, as the District deems appropriate. Strings of appropriate questions

and answers regarding the bidding documents will be available online on the District’s website

until the bid opening date of the bidding documents. No questions will be accepted by telephone,

fax, email, mail, or any other such form of delivery.

The District will only respond to questions received online up to ONE WEEK prior to the date set

to receive proposals. The District will not respond to questions received after this date. The District

does not guarantee the timeliness of responses provided online, nor does the District guarantee

that such responses will be provided in adequate time to affect the submission of bids. The District

must provide responses online ONLY if the responses do not interpret or otherwise change the

bidding documents.

The District’s responses online are NOT official responses and, therefore, are not binding to the

bidding documents. Any official interpretation or change to the bidding documents will be made

only by addenda duly issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and

Materials Management.

The Resident Engineer for the request for proposal is Matt McGregor, Managing Engineer. The

Resident Engineer will provide online responses to online inquiries.

The District reserves the right to accept any Request for Proposal or any part thereof or to reject

any and all Request for Proposals.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement & Materials Management

DATE OF ADVERTISEMENT: Wednesday June 17, 2026

This is the opportunity summary page. It provides an overview of this opportunity and a preview of the attached documentation.

ENERGY CURTAILMENT SERVICES

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