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2019 Silver Medal Award
Gilmore, Dougherty, Armstrong, Smith, Bollinger, Sherman
AWARD CITATION
The group is recognized for superbly performing as a cohesive, cross-agency contracting team that pursued the procurement of a large solar array system for the NIST Gaithersburg campus. The team functioned like a well-oiled machine, employing some new and unique energy-saving contracting tools and strategies to award a $10 million contract for a 5-megawatt system. Construction was completed rapidly, and NIST is now receiving solar-generated electricity (enough for 4% of its total annual consumption) at a unit rate that is 30% below what it pays to the local servicing electric utility company.