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• Montgomery County Green Bank Technical Assistance Program: Includes 30 vendors who help deliver Montgomery County Green Banks's Technical Assistance Program, which supports studies for commercial sector owners to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, generates jobs for contractors, and encourages compliance with County requirements - including the Montgomery County BEPS. To participate, vendor partners must inform customers of BEPS regulations and impacts on customers.
  

• DC Building Innovation Hub Vendor Library: Offers a Vendor Library of contractors, vendors, and service providers that conduct business in the DC metropolitan area (including parts of Maryland). Building owners can use the vendor matchmaking system by filling out a Owner Submission Form detailing their building's needs and match with qualified vendors. Please note the DC Building Innovation Hub will not participate in the evaluation or procurement process and is not responsible for advice or services provided by vendors in the database.
  

• Montgomery County Benchmarking Ambassadors: Montgomery County’s Department of Environmental Protection curates this list of stakeholders, volunteers, and energy service companies who have received an orientation to the County’s Benchmarking Law on how to properly benchmark in Portfolio Manager. Inclusion in this list does not confer certification, an official endorsement, or approval from the Montgomery County Government or any of its agencies.
  

• Department of Energy (DOE) Qualified List of Energy Service Companies (ESCOs): Composed of about 120 firms that have submitted applications and been approved by the DOE qualification review board. Companies approved for the DOE Qualified List of ESCOs are eligible to compete for the mechanisms used to implement energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) with federal agencies. 
  

• ENERGY STAR Service Provider Partners: Commercial building owners can find expert help by searching for companies in the ENERGY STAR Service and Product Provider (SPP) partner directory. SPPs have demonstrated their expertise and achievements by meeting strict ENERGY STAR program requirements for benchmarking customer buildings using Portfolio Manager and gaining ENERGY STAR certification for buildings.
  

• Building Performance Institute (BPI)-Certified Contractor Locator Tool: Use this tool to find a BPI-certified professional in Maryland. BPI is a national standards development organization for residential energy efficiency and weatherization retrofit work. Individuals that have been trained, tested, and certified to BPI’s nationally recognized standards use the house-as-a-system approach to improve the performance of existing homes.
  

• Maryland Department of General Services (DGS) Decarbonization Task Order: Includes three engineering firms to assist local governments and nonprofits with decarbonization and BEPS compliance planning. Eligible entities benefit from an expedited procurement process by pursuing a work order for the firms’ services via DGS. Interested? Contact David St. Jean, DGS Director of the Office of Energy & Sustainability.​   ​

Building Vendor & Service Provider Resources​

• High-Road Contracting Guide​: High-road contracting refers to business standards of productivity and efficiency rooted in environmental sustainability, liveabe wages, and shared properity and inclusion. This document covers building owner best practices to design their own high-road contracting standards and offers sample tools for how to implement these practices.
  

• Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Reduction Audit Scope of Work Template​: DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative has created this package of materials to be used by building owners and operators to develop a scope of work for a building-level GHG Emissions Reduction Audit for operational Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions. The aim of the scope of work template is to achieve building-level solutions that will reduce operational emissions.​
  

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