West Penn Power Contract with Eaton Corporation as a CSP

Appendix # 10
GUIDELINES FOR BIDDING VIA POWERADVOCATE
Bidding is performed via the i nternet using an el ectronic sealed bid format.
PowerAdvocate, a third party sourcing consultant contracted by Allegheny Energy, will
serve as the Host for bidding. This will not be a reverse auction type bid; instead
the PowerAdvocate Platform wi 11 provide the means to transfer and communicate your
questions and proposal to Allegheny Energy personnel.
All questions, comments, clarification requests, etc. shall be directed to the
following.
PowerAdvocate Website
PowerAdvocate Contact:
Allegheny Energy Contacts:
www.poweradvocate.com
support@poweradvocate.com
(Website questions ONLY)
Barbara Crowe (General RFQ questions}
bcrowe@a11eahenvenergy.com
All responses must be received by October 23, 2009 by 4:0G PM EDT.
Proposals will not be considered unless they are completed and presented via the
PowerAdvocate web site. All Commercial and Pricing Datasheets must be submitted. If
a bidder would like to enter additional bids, or chooses to expound upon any of their
bids, they may upload documents on tab #2 (upload proposals).
Al1egheny Energy reserves the ri ght to rej ect any proposal as i ncomplete whi ch does
not include the required submittals.
Cl arifications and questions may be sent via email to Barbara Crowe
(browe@a11eahenvenergy.com) before the bi d closes. The i nformati on wi 11 then be
distributed to the correct personnel. Once a response has been developed, it wi 11
then be posted to the website as Questions and Answers for all participating vendors
review. Once posted, a notification email will be distributed.
It is the vendor's responsibility to maintain diligence in monitoring the posting of
Questions and Answers to the web site as well as any additional information uploaded
as modifications made to the platform. PowerAdvocate strongly recommends that the
vendor registers all personnel associated with the successful bid of this RFQ.
Pl ease have anyone you bel ieve is critical to your team register with
www.poweradvocate.com. If you are a Representative of a company, please register
under your corporate name. When registering, please include the product you will be
representing in this RFQ. Any additional personnel that register from your
organization (administrative assistants, engineers, manufactures, sales personnel
etc) are required to include the following information:
1. The Company (AE) and the Product (Current Transformer and Voltage
Transformers) they would like to have access to.
2. The Company or Team wi th whom they are associated {i ncl ude the name of
the lead person for this RFQ)
3. Their Role on the team
Please carefully review the following guidelines and terms that apply to this RFQ.
Submission of the Intent to Respond Field will be interpreted as an understanding and
acceptance of these guidelines and terms:
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