Request for Proposals: Agricultural Pump Market Research
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) seeks to engage a qualified research contractor to support NEEA’s Extended Motor Products—Pumps team in assessing opportunities and barriers associated with potential program expansion into the regional agricultural clean-water irrigation pumps market. NEEA’s XMP Program seeks to reduce market barriers around product awareness and acceptance of the value proposition for high efficiency pumps and circulators. It is a market transformation program focused on bringing about durable, sustained changes in how market actors produce, specify, buy, and sell pumps and circulators. The selected contractor will plan and conduct a market research study to meet the three following objectives:
- Identify and prioritize agricultural market barriers to uptake of highly efficient pumps for irrigation purposes.
- Document market actor motivations and agricultural irrigation pump path-to-purchase.
- Assess the accuracy of key market projections documented in NEEA’s 2013 Agricultural Irrigation Market Characterization, specifically as pertaining to regional irrigated agricultural acreage and market actor technology usage.
All correspondence should be directed to Chris Cardiel, Senior Market Research & Evaluation Scientist (CCardiel@neea.org). Intent to respond forms and bidder questions for clarification are due October 4, 2024, and proposals are due October 31, 2024.
RFP posted September 26, 2024.
