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Indiana Code Title 36. Local Government § 36-1-12.5-3

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

Sec. 3. (a) As used in this chapter, “qualified provider” means the following:

(1) Before July 1, 1999, the term means a person that satisfies both of the following:

(A) The person is experienced in the design, implementation, and installation of energy conservation measures.

(B) The person submits to the school corporation or political subdivision a performance bond to ensure the qualified provider's faithful performance of the qualified provider's obligations over the term of the guaranteed energy savings contract.

(2) After June 30, 1999, the term means a person that satisfies all of the following:

(A) Subject to subdivision (3), the person is experienced in the design, implementation, and installation of energy conservation measures.

(B) The person is certified and meets the requirements of IC 4-13.6-4.   The person's response to the request for proposals must include a copy of the person's certificate of qualification issued under IC 4-13.6-4.

(C) Subject to subdivision (3), the person provides energy conservation engineering services by a professional engineer licensed under IC 25-31 who is under the person's direct employment and supervision.  The person's response to the request for proposals must include the license number of each professional engineer employed by the person to satisfy the requirement of this clause.

(D) The person provides:

(i) monitoring for the facility performance guarantee;  and

(ii) service personnel under the person's direct employment and supervision;

for the duration of the contract's guarantee.

(E) The person performs at least twenty percent (20%) of the work (measured in dollars of the total contract price) with its own workforce.

(F) The person submits to the school corporation or political subdivision a performance bond to ensure the qualified provider's faithful performance of the qualified provider's obligations over the term of:

(i) the guaranteed energy savings contract;  or

(ii) the guaranteed savings contract.

(3) With respect to conservation measures for which a contract is executed after June 30, 2006, the term includes a person that satisfies the following:

(A) The person is experienced in the design, implementation, and installation of conservation measures.

(B) The person provides engineering services with respect to conservation measures by a professional engineer licensed under IC 25-31 who is under the person's direct employment and supervision.  The person's response to the request for proposals must include the license number of each professional engineer employed by the person to satisfy the requirement of this clause.

(b) For purposes of a guaranteed energy savings contract entered into before July 1, 1999, a person who was a qualified provider under subsection (a)(1) at the time the contract was entered into remains a qualified provider for that contract after June 30, 1999.  If the person enters into:

(1) a guaranteed energy savings contract after June 30, 1999, and before July 1, 2006, the person must satisfy the requirements of subsection (a)(2);  or

(2) a guaranteed savings contract after June 30, 2006, the person must satisfy the requirements of subsection (a)(2) and (a)(3);

to be considered a qualified provider.

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