Common use of Competitively Sensitive Information Clause in Contracts

Competitively Sensitive Information. Competitively-sensitive information" is defined as information that “could provide an unfair competitive advantage to an entity delivering services outside of the energy efficiency and renewable energy services approved by the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment for DCSEU implementation”. The intent is to ensure that no information (either customer specific, aggregated customer data or market related data) is provided to any entity such that the entity would have an unfair advantage in providing non-DCSEU energy efficiency and renewable energy services over any other entities in its market. For example providing a particular HVAC contractor with data about the commercial new construction market could give that contractor an advantage over other HVAC contractors. The only information the HVAC contractor should have access to are data related to the specific customer to whom it was providing DCSEU energy efficiency and renewable energy services. Other examples of competitively sensitive market data may include, but is not limited to, customer surveys, aggregated sales data, load research and appliance saturation data.

Competitively Sensitive Information. Competitively-sensitive information" is defined as information that “could provide an unfair competitive advantage to an entity delivering services outside of the energy efficiency and renewable energy services approved by the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment for DCSEU implementation”. The intent is to ensure that no information (either including, but not limited to, customer specific, aggregated customer data or market related data) is provided to any entity such that the entity would have an unfair advantage in providing non-DCSEU energy efficiency and renewable energy services over any other entities in its market. For example example, providing a particular HVAC contractor with data about the commercial new construction market could give that contractor an advantage over other HVAC contractors. The only information the HVAC contractor should have access to are data related to the specific customer to whom it was providing DCSEU energy efficiency and renewable energy services. Other examples of competitively sensitive market data may include, but is not limited to, customer surveys, aggregated sales data, load research research, and appliance saturation data.