RFPpower: Purpose-Built RFP Management Software for Electric Utilities
Energy Procurement Simplified
RFPpower provides a comprehensive RFP management platform for electric utilities, Load Serving Entities (LSEs), Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs), and Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs) to run competitive energy procurement processes.
RFPpower is built by a team with direct experience inside utilities to solve the procurement crisis that existing tools were never designed to handle, and it's built on PowerClerk® — deployed at more than 85 utilities worldwide.
The platform is configured to meet unique processes and regulatory environments and increase transparency and auditablity internally and externally throughout the procurement life cycle.
RFPpower uses its PowerPrint® structured energy procurement process that improves decision-making and ensures correctly procuring the necessary resources to meet Load Serving Entities' system demands.
RFPpower is a live, working platform and has been reviewed by utility procurement leaders across the country. Every one of them said the same thing: this is addressing exactly the problem we have.
Streamline and Automate
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Reduce evaluation effort while speeding evaluation: Shorten selection timelines and cut down on documentation overhead. Utility procurement teams report spending months on manual data collection and document management for a single RFP. PowerPrint restructures this from day one.
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Improve collaboration: Align internal teams and external stakeholders on complex procurement projects. Procurement failures often trace back to unclear role assignments and no shared audit trail. PowerPrint enforces accountability at every step.
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Eliminate wasted resources: Focus only on projects that deliver value and avoid costly dead ends. A single regulatory challenge to a flawed procurement process can delay resource acquisition by 12–18 months. PowerPrint is built to close that gap.
About Our Work
The Energy Procurement Challenge
Electricity demand is growing faster than it has in decades - data centers, electrification, and reindustrialization are necessitating change. Manual handoff-heavy procurement processes introduce risk, inefficiency, and auditability gaps — and utilities running these processes on spreadsheets and email are increasingly exposed as regulatory scrutiny increases and load growth accelerates. These conditions increase staff burden, extend evaluation timelines, elevate the risk of procedural challenge, and limit the Load Serving Entity's ability to demonstrate a transparent and auditable process to management, regulators, independent evaluators, and intervening parties.
The current approaches to energy planning and procurement aren't keeping up with Resource Adequacy needs. Meeting this surge requires major investment in energy infrastructure and a shift toward innovative strategies that can handle the scale and speed of change.
RFPpower manages the end-to-end RFP management process for energy procurement, aligning the Integrated Resource Planning objectives with procurement decisions. This alignment ensures energy resources meet system needs and regulators and stakeholders fully understand the resource decisions made. RFPpower's PowerPrint™ provides the underlying configuration whether the LSE is procuring renewable assets, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)/Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) or traditional generation resources.
The RFPpower portal streamlines the generation of the RFP as well as the critical inake and evaluation processes. The portal guides the user through the process to ensure correct data and documents are submitted. The data and documents are validated through automation and artificial intelligence tools reducing data deficiencies and accelerating getting the necessary information for evaluation.
How RFPpower Manages Utility Energy Procurement
RFPpower's flagship solution, PowerPrint®, is an end-to-end energy procurement process blueprint and workflow platform built on PowerClerk® — the utility industry's most widely deployed workflow automation platform.
RFPpower’s solution collects all necessary information in a structured format. This enables Load Serving Entities to compare proposals based on the established scoring criteria.
Communication between developer proposals and LSEs is captured within the system for auditability and tracking.
LSEs have control over stakeholder access to maintain appropriate transparency through the selection process.
Accountability is enforced through assignments and deadlines to keep the entire team on-track leading to efficient consensus on procurement decisions.
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Who We Serve
Managing the Power Procurement Process
Independent Evaluators
The Sounding Board
Independent Evaluators play a variety of roles - oversight, advisor, consensus builder.
They provide auditability under scrutiny. IEs need a complete, defensible record of every procurement decision. PowerPrint is built to give them one.
Power Procurement Managers
Our Expertise
Power Procurement Managers — Running RFPs on Spreadsheets and Email.
Most procurement managers are one staff departure away from losing institutional knowledge on a live procurement. PowerPrint captures the process, not just the person.
Executives and Regulators
The Big Picture
Executives and Regulators — Defensibility When It Matters Most.
Power Procurement requires input from a host of subject matter experts and supporting technology. Price discovery, risk management, performance monitoring, and settlements all play critical roles in building an effective power procurement team.
When a procurement decision gets challenged, leadership needs a transparent record of decisions that holds up. PowerPrint creates that record automatically.
What You Should Know
What is our expertise?
Our team members have worked directly inside large Investor-Owned Utilities, Community Choice Aggregators, and Retail Power Marketers — in procurement, risk management, and technology roles. RFPpower was founded from that insider experience.
What are we hearing?
We've demonstrated the live platform to procurement leaders at a large Southeast utility, a Pacific Northwest municipal utility, several California CCAs. Their response: "This is exactly the gap we've been trying to fill."
How does the RFPpower product help?
Understanding who is doing what throughout the power procurement process is critical to effectively managing the process. Transparency empowers experts to identify bottlenecks and correct them. Data-driven systems enable performance tracking and ensure quality decisions.
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