Common use of CLARITY AND CONCISION OF SOLICITATION MATERIALS Clause in Contracts

CLARITY AND CONCISION OF SOLICITATION MATERIALS. While not a particularly concise set of materials, the contents of PG&E’s 2009 RPS RFO solicitation protocol generally provided clear direction to Participants on how to prepare and submit complete proposal packages that could be evaluated. Xxxxxx has a few observations about the clarity of the guidance provided in the protocol and issues created when Participants failed to understand or follow that guidance: • The great majority of proposals were submitted as complete and conforming packages. The most common deficiencies in other proposals were (1) failures to submit the offer form (Attachment D) for all variants or project phases; (2) errors in filling in the offer form such as missing data; (3) failures to provide the electronic version of the package; (4) discrepancies between proposal text and offer form; and