Workforce Training: Building Operations and Maintenance (BOM)

Description of goods to services to be bid:

NYSERDA’s Building Operations and Maintenance Workforce Training Program aims to reduce energy use and associated carbon emissions while saving building operators and owners money by developing and strengthening the skills of operations and maintenance (O&M) staff and managers across the state. The program is designed to support building owners, facility managers, property management companies, business associations/trade groups, and organized labor associations in creating the talent development strategy, corporate culture, on-site training framework, and tools needed to equip building O&M workers with the skills to operate increasingly energy-efficient, grid- flexible, and electrified building systems that reduce buildings’ contribution to climate change.

NYSERDA will support eligible projects by providing funding for programs and activities such as, but not limited to, creation of on-site training laboratories, curriculum development, in-person and virtual training, coaching/mentorships, and training trainers within an organization. NYSERDA will provide funding of up to 90% with a cap of $500,000 per application when 75% or more of the buildings employing O&M workers are located in a Disadvantaged Community, or when the application is for a qualifying union-led project or qualifying pre-apprenticeship program. For all other applications, NYSERDA will provide funding of up to 70% with a cap of $500,000 per application.

If changes are made to this solicitation notification will be posted on NYSERDA’s website at: www.nyserda.ny.gov/funding-opportunities   

Eligibility/Qualifications Requirements/Preferences:

• While a training organization, a business association/trade group or an organized labor association may be the applicant, it must partner with a specified entity or entities that employ building O&M workers. Such entities may include, but are not limited to, building owners, facility managers, and property management companies.
• Buildings employing O&M workers participating in the project must be New York State electricity customers of an investor-owned utility company that are paying into the System Benefits Charge (SBC)/Clean Energy Fund (CEF).
• The identified buildings must have total annual energy expenditures of $1 million or more (all fuels and uses). For multi-family buildings, the energy expenditures of the buildings to meet the threshold must be through accounts impacted by building O&M staff (i.e., common area accounts).