UTILITY SUB-SAMPLE

Goals of the Utility sub-sample are outlined in the Progress Report (page 27). An RFP for Utility Contractor was issued on November 7, 2000 with responses due on November 29, 2000. The RFP was listed on the CBDNet for five consecutive days, listing electronically for 15 days, and further advertisement was gained with industry organizations.

The Harvard Graduate School of Design, Public Housing Operating Cost Study has awarded a contract to Systems Engineering and Management Corporation of Knoxville TN, to evaluate the feasibility of establishing private market norms for utility consumption and costs as a means of calculating a public housing authority's (PHA's) subsidy. Systems Corp. was selected from a field of eight firms who responded to the GSD's solicitation for this work.

The work under this study will include review of existing literature, collection of cost and consumption data from site visits to PHA's as well as from existing database sources, and analyses and recommendations to the cost study. Planned completion is in early summer of 2001.

Initial Study Topics

Preliminary Field Research
Additional Field Research
Focus Groups
Data Sources
Utility Sub-sample