CASERMA EDERLE -- Directorate of Public Works local national employee Thomas Raffaello was selected for the Secretary of the Army Energy Award for fiscal year 2016 under the Category of Individual Exceptional Performance. The nomination was the result of Raffaello's work at the Utilities Branch to develop new electrical service contracts for the Army.
Raffaello, Mikaela Sturati of DPW, and Patrizia Meloni of the Regional Contracting Office initiated contracts separate from the unified contracts for all Department of Defense entities through the Navy in Naples in FY11, which in the final year of fiscal year 2015 saved the Army $149,000.
Raffaello researched the electrical market and realized that real-time pricing would reduce the Army's cost even more than the existing contract. He led the team in developing a scope of work, which then led to a new contract being issued that began in February 2016.
For only those remaining seven months of the fiscal year, the new contract lowered the garrison's electrical bill by €703,162, or roughly an annual savings of $1,340,000, about 10 percent of the garrison electrical bill.
The energy award is presented by the Commander of ACSIM and the Assistant Secretary of the Army (IE&E) at the annual Army Energy Management Training held with the Federal Energy Exchange, in Tampa, Fla., in August.
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