Amendment ID: S2372-24-R1

Redraft Amendment 24

Prequalification standards

Mr. Pacheco moves to amend the amendment in section 12, by striking out the first sentence of the proposed third paragraph of proposed subsection (b) of proposed section 83C of chapter 169 of the acts of 2008 and inserting in place thereof the following 2 sentences:- “The department of energy resources shall require that bidding offshore wind developers demonstrate that the bidding offshore wind developers have the ability and financial means to complete their proposed project.  If the department of energy resources determines that no reasonable proposal was received in response to a solicitation, the department may terminate the solicitation. If the department, in consultation with the independent evaluator, deems all proposals under a solicitation to be unreasonable, it shall issue public, written findings and the independent evaluator shall review the findings and issue an independent assessment of the decision by the department of energy resources to deem every proposal unreasonable.”.