REVIEWING PG& E’ S ADMINIST RATION OF ITS EVALUATION Sample Clauses

REVIEWING PG& E’ S ADMINIST RATION OF ITS EVALUATION. AND SEL ECTION PROCESS PG&E provided Xxxxxx Seco Consulting with many detailed inputs to its valuation model and with results of market valuation at several steps during the evaluation process, including detailed information about transmission adders applied to Offers. Xxxxxx also had copies of all Offers and of correspondence between PG&E and Participants during this period, and was able to make independent opinions about the strengths and weakness of individual Offers against the evaluation criteria laid out in PG&E’s protocols. Xxxxxx was present at evaluation team and steering committee meetings in which draft proposals for the short list of Offers were developed, reviewed, questioned, modified, argued, and finalized. The logic and priorities underlying why specific Offers were rejected and accepted to the short list were made evident in these sessions. Xxxxxx had access to members of the evaluation team responsible for scoring the Offers against each of the evaluation criteria. Xxxxxx was able to question decisions that appeared unfair or inconsistent from an independent perspective. Additional elements of Xxxxxx’x approach for evaluating the fairness of the evaluation and selection process include: • Building an independent valuation model that directly used detailed Offer information, to construct an independent ranking of Offers by net market value; • Independently scoring Offers using the 2011 Project Viability Calculator; • Developing a separate and independent point of view about which Offers most merited selection for a short list;