20171129Info_Requests_Set_2_to_Hydro_One_Limited.docx

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OREGON DOCKET NO. UM 1897
Oregon and Southern Idaho District Council of Laborers, LIUNA, Data Request No. 2 to Hydro One Limited
November 20, 2017
Response Date: December 4, 2017 Data Requests
Employment ImpactsProvide any company guidelines, policies, and requirements that apply to the use of contractors—who perform traffic control, paving, patch paving, utility excavation, and the installation, maintenance, or rehabilitation ofunderground utility infrastructure—in effect at any time since2014.Provide any company guidelines, policies, and requirements regarding labor policies that cover the contracted out workforce, who work for contractors— who perform traffic control, paving, patch paving, utility excavation, and the installation, maintenance, or rehabilitation of underground utilityinfrastructure
—at any time since 2014.[Withdrawn]For historic capital investments, detail proportion of actual spending and proportion of projects performed by outside construction contractorsannually from 2014 to present. Include original data and methodology to compute the amounts andpercentages.[Withdrawn]For projected capital investments, detail forecasted expenditures for contracted out projects and the scopes of work to be performed by outside construction contractors from 2017 to2021.Detail any changes to processes or systems post-merger as it relates to the procurement of contracted out construction activities being considered, evaluated, explored, or otherwisecontemplated.Detail any employment goals or commitments as it relates tocontractor employees in effect at any time since2014.Provide any analysis, document, or report since 2014 that details contractor employment creation or outcomes as it relates to historic and futurecapital
investments.Detail any contractor or procurement goals as it relates to Woman Business Enterprises and Minority BusinessEnterprises.Provide any document, analysis, data, reports, or surveys (completed at any time since 2014) used to determine occupational wage data for contractor employees and projected contract laborexpenditures.Provide copies of the last five most recent contract awards for the provisionof traffic control services. Please include the Request for Proposal, technical evaluations used to qualify contractors, bid amounts and actual costs of the awarded contract, and any and all performanceevaluations.Please provide copies of any and all portions or excerpts of current Master Service Agreements, relating to safety requirements, compensation requirements for workers, or other labor requirements, between the applicants and outside contractors. Please provide a schedule of when active MSAsexpire, and the timeline for securing new MSAcontracts.
Safety and ReliabilityProvide copies of third party damage reports caused by, attributed to, or investigated as being caused by or attributed to, contractors—who perform traffic control, paving, patch paving, utility excavation, and the installation, maintenance, or rehabilitation of underground utility infrastructure—from 2014 to current, and any reports or root cause analyses performed on third party damages caused by, attributed to, or investigated as being caused by or attributed to, contractors, over the sameperiod.[Withdrawn]Copies of any and all exhibits, data responses, testimonies, work-papers, communications, or other documents that detail the prequalification processby which outside construction contractors—who perform traffic control, paving, patch paving, utility excavation, and the installation, maintenance, or rehabilitation of underground utility infrastructure—are selected to bid on capital or maintenanceprojects.Copies of any documents used to assess the qualification of construction contractors—who perform traffic control, paving, patch paving, utility excavation, and the installation, maintenance, or rehabilitation of underground utility infrastructure—bidding on capital or maintenance projects as it relates to the contractor’s capacity to meet any and all safety, regulatory, engineering, environmental, legal, manpower, and financial requirements.Provide a list of contractors that have met these prequalification standardsfor construction and maintenanceprojects.[Withdrawn][Withdrawn]Detail any and all workforce safety, health, or environmental metrics employed by applicants to measure contractor performance for contractors who perform traffic control, paving, patch paving, utility excavation, and the installation, maintenance, or rehabilitation of underground utilityinfrastructure.Detail any historic analysis completed that compares construction performanceusingsafety,health,environmental,timeliness,orproductivity metrics on applicants’ competitively bid capital or maintenanceprojects.Provide copies of the last five most recent contract awards for capital projects valued at over $1 million. Please include the Request for Proposal, technical evaluations used to qualify contractors—who provided traffic control, paving, patch paving, utility excavation, and the installation, maintenance, or rehabilitation of underground utility infrastructure—bid amounts and actual costs of the awarded contract, and any and all performance evaluations done by applicants after commencement of theproject.Provide documents regarding the applicability, or planned applicability, ofany Heath, Safety and Environmental Management System on contracted out workforce working on maintenance, capital, reliability, or other construction projects.
Workforce Development & InvestmentProvide documents, including communications, reports, violations, internal audits, and corrective action plans, related to any investigation or reviewof contractor compliance with applicants’ Operator Qualificationprogram.Provide a list, timeline, and schedule of any future or active capital projects valued at over $1 million from 2017 to 2021, and any long-term planning or supportivedocuments.Describe applicants’ plans to recruit, train, and retain sufficient contractor personnel to perform forecasted construction activities on capital,maintenance, and reliabilityprojects.Describe applicants’ plans to recruit, train, and retain sufficient Operator Qualified contractor employees to perform forecasted construction activitieson capital, maintenance, and reliabilityprojects.Provide copies of any and all training programs administered by or approved by applicants for contractoremployees.Detail annual amounts spent on training for contractor employees from 2010to present.Provide copies of all collective bargaining agreements, memoranda of understanding, or other labor contracts in which Avista or its Subsidiariesare signatories.Provide and all documents or a list of beneficiaries of Avista’s $4,000,000in annual charitable contributions (funded by both Avista and the Avista Foundation) as stated in Appendix 8 to theApplication.Provide any and all documents showing requirements or criteria forgrantees of Avista’s charitable foundation as stated in Appendix 8 to theApplication.Provide any and all documents regarding Avista’s existing levelsof community involvement as stated in Appendix 8 to theApplication.Provide any and all documents describing Avista’s past practicesconcerning Economic Development as stated in Appendix 8 to theApplication.Provide a list of all industry trade groups and membership organizationsto which Avista has paid dues within the last threeyears.Provide all documents regarding standards used to determine whether Avista’s staffing and presence in communities in which Avista operatesare sufficient to maintain the provision of safe and reliable services and cost- effectiveoperations.