Exhibit 1, Page 2 of 2
62-0760 (Rev 11/00)
CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT
Contract Opportunity AnnouncementX / Professional Service Contract
Construction Contract
Service Contract
Material Requirement
Other
Contract Opportunity Title: / Health & Welfare Benefits Administration – Outsourcing Consultant Support
Estimated Contract Value (Range): / $100,000 - $200,000 for a one – two year term
Work Location: / San Francisco or firms location
Deadline: / Noon, July 3 , 2013
Contract Opportunity Description:
1. Background Information
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PG&E Corporation.
There are approximately 22,000 employees who carry out PG&E’s primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The Company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California. Our customers include over 20,000 schools, 3,000 hospitals, 20,000 high-tech companies and 700 military facilities. As the primary gas and electric service provider for Central and Northern California, PG&E has impressive size and territory that stretches from Eureka in the north to Bakersfield in the south, and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east. PG&E provides electricity to over 4.9 million customers and gas to over 3.9 million customers.
PG&E is determined to expand opportunities which enhance our commitment to diversity, safety, environmental stewardship, and corporate integrity. We anticipate that this evaluation process will provide opportunities for successful firms to expand their business with PG&E and also allow PG&E to realize reductions in costs, both internal and external. We believe this will be an exciting opportunity for PG&E and its current and future suppliers to reshape the way we work together and to improve PG&E’s operations.
2. Project BackgroundPG&E is exploring health and welfare administration outsourcing options to complement its current partnership with two major health plans and its Wellness and Advocacy provider. Currently, all health and welfare administration at PG&E is done in-house using the PG&E SAP system. PG&E administers health and welfare benefits for approximately 22,000 employees and 15,000 retirees. Approximately 15,000 PG&E employees are represented by a union.
The present opportunity is to select a consultant to define the Health & Welfare outsourcing opportunity, develop a current state cost baseline to compare to future–state cost models, develop the RFP, other components of the project and manage the process up to and including contract finalization with the new vendor if PG&E decides to outsource its health and welfare administration. If PG&E decides to pursue the outsourcing opportunity it may also need implementation project management, but that will be decided at a later date.
The qualified respondent to this announcement must be able to demonstrate experience in this type of specific consulting activity and answer the following questions:
· What is your experience in managing health and welfare outsourcing project RFPs?
· What is the total number of projects where respondent has acted as lead consultant in this exact type of outsourcing project?
· What is your previous experience with PG&E and/or heavily unionized companies? (please describe)
· What would be the total employees supporting delivery of this project?
· What is the total number of clients your firm has supported in this type of activity where primary lives are 20,000 or more?
3. Next Steps
To be considered for this opportunity, please send a summary of your qualifications (answers to the questions above) to Kathleen Elliott via e-mail at by noon, July 3rd, 2013. In addition, sign, scan and return the attached non-disclosure agreement. Upon review, PG&E will contact your firm for additional information if necessary.
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
NONDISCLOSURE AND USE OF INFORMATION AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is by and between ______(hereinafter referred to as "Company"), ______(hereinafter referred to as "Undersigned") authorized employee of Company (together, the “Receiving Party”), and PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (hereinafter referred to as "PG&E") on the date set forth below.
Undersigned and Company agree as follows:
1. The Receiving Party acknowledges that in the course of performing Work and services for PG&E, the Receiving Party will be given access to confidential, commercial, PG&E-customer, business or personal information, and to information and materials including, but not limited to, information relating to drawings, maps, reports, specifications, designs, records, data and/or software, programs, code, computer models, and related documentation, which are owned by PG&E, its parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliates, and/or owned by third parties and in the possession of or licensed to PG&E, and which constitute valuable, confidential and proprietary information, know-how, and trade secrets, belonging to PG&E, its parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliates and/or third parties (all of the foregoing are hereinafter referred to as "Proprietary Information"). The term Proprietary Information shall also include all information, designs, data, documentation, computer programs, software, code, and any other items which Receiving Party uses in the performance of Work and services for PG&E, or which Receiving Party develops in the performance of its Work and services for PG&E.
2. In consideration of being made privy to such Proprietary Information, and of the contracting for the Receiving Party’s professional services by PG&E, the Receiving Party hereby agrees to hold the same in strict confidence, and not to disclose it, or otherwise make it available, to any person or third party, including any affiliate of PG&E that produces energy or energy-related products or services, without the prior written consent of PG&E. The Receiving Party agrees that all such resources and Proprietary Information:
(a) shall be used only for the purpose of providing services or Work for PG&E; and
(b) shall not be reproduced, copied, in whole or in part, except as specifically authorized and in conformance with PG&E's instructions when necessary for the purposes set forth in (a) above; and
(c) shall, together with any copies, reproductions or other records thereof, in any form, and all information and materials developed by Undersigned therefrom, be returned to PG&E when no longer needed for the performance of Undersigned's services for PG&E.
3. The Receiving Party agrees to abide by all PG&E policies and standards governing access to and use of computer resources and, specifically:
(a) to use only the user ID, password and Access Card assigned by Information Protection Services for his or her personal use, and
(b) to maintain the confidentiality of these authentication keys and protect them from use by others.
4. The Receiving Party hereby agrees that any third parties owning any Proprietary Information are express third party beneficiaries of this Agreement.
5. The Receiving Party hereby agrees that for any violation of any provision of this Agreement, a restraining order and/or injunction may be issued against the Receiving Party in addition to any other remedy PG&E may have at law.
6. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of The State of California.
UNDERSIGNED / COMPANY (of which undersigned is an employee)Signature / Company Name
Name / Signature of Authorized Agent of Company
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Company / Title
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