- Operational Services Division
The Operational Services Division offers three contracts under our Sustainable Facilities Consulting (SFC) Services category, one of them being PRF74 Energy, Climate Action, and Facility Advisory Services. This contract offers three advisory and consulting service categories to advance energy and climate action facilities projects.
OSD recently spoke with Christopher Kramer, acting Director of the Municipal Energy Unit for the City of Boston. Chris collaborates with facilities managers, engineers, and budget analysts throughout the city, focused on decarbonizing city buildings. Chris relayed his experience using PRF74 for a recommissioning study on several of their solar arrays.
“This was my first time using a Statewide Contract and initially I thought I had overlooked a step because the process was so straightforward,” notes Chris. “The vendor we selected completed the study on time and met expectations. Now, Boston is considering using Statewide Contracts to implement the recommissioning work identified in the study.”
Chris suggested having a dedicated section in the Contract User Guide for municipalities to improve contract usability. Coincidentally, OSD is working on a project to offer municipal-focused User Guides, and we expect to pilot these guides later this year.
Chris commented that he would confidently use PRF74 again for similar projects. OSD also learned that the City of Boston plans to explore the ITS75 Software and Services and the ITS81 Project Services and GIS contracts for an ongoing software project.
If you have questions about utilizing PRF74 or OSD’s other Sustainable Facilities Consulting Services (SFC) contracts, contact Hayley Lebert or Gerard Dawson from the SFC Management Team.
