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2019 Silver Medal Award

Gilmore, Dougherty, Armstrong, Smith, Bollinger, Sherman

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.

GROUP AWARD

Tommy Armstrong

Engineering Technician
Office of Facilities and Property Management

John R. Bollinger

Supervisory General Engineer
Office of Facilities and Property Management

Daniel Gilmore

Supervisory General Engineer
Office of Facilities and Property Management

Steven Smith

Supervisory General Engineer
Office of Facilities and Property Management

Brian Dougherty

Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Thomas M. Sherman

Supervisory Contract Specialist

Timothy Hoseth

Attorney-Advisor, Real Prop Energy/Environ Law Div.