Packaged Terminal Heat Pump (PTHP) Market Study
RFP Overview
The Brightline Group, on behalf of ComEd Customer Innovation, is seeking proposal submissions from qualified vendors for a Market Study on Packaged Terminal Heat Pumps (PTHPs). This research will gather qualitative primary data from facility stakeholders around their experiences, motivations, barriers, performance perceptions, and challenges facing the adoption of PTHPs.
This research should address the following objectives:
- Understand the experiences and motivations of customers who have installed PTHPs with ComEd incentives to date.
- Identify adoption barriers from the perspectives of customers, service providers and key lodging market actors, including operational, financial, and technical challenges.
- Engage PTHP manufacturers, distributors, and installers, where applicable, to gather insights on product availability, performance perceptions, and distribution challenges.
- Establish the prevalence of electric resistance heating in the lodging sector within ComEd’s service territory.
- Identify the current market share of PTHPs within the lodging sector in ComEd’s service territory.
- Estimate energy and bill savings using informed assumptions regarding baselines and operational costs associated with PTHP implementation.
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Note: The BrightLine Group, E Source, and Swift Strategy team is the Administrator for the ComEd Customer Innovation initiative. BrightLine is the Prime contractor. As BrightLine’s subcontractor, E Source’s primary responsibility is subcontracting to organizations selected to run pilots. Accordingly, E Source, on behalf of BrightLine and ComEd, will hold the contract with the selected vendor. Terms and Conditions for subcontracts are provided by request.
Intent to Bid
If your organization is interested in bidding on this RFP, please email [email protected] by 11:59 pm CT on April 13, 2026, the following:
- Any questions about the RFP or process;
- Whether your organization wants its name released to other vendors to facilitate potential partnerships on this RFP; and
- Your organization’s intent to bid.
In the email subject line, please include 1) your organization’s name, and 2) the title of the RFP. The deadline for submitting an intent to bid is April 13, 2026.
ComEd strongly encourages that interested vendors allow their organization’s name to be released to facilitate potential partnerships on this RFP. Please indicate in your intent to bid whether your organization is interested in having its name released by ComEd for potential partnership on the RFP.
RFP Submissions
Email your proposal to [email protected] by 11:59 p.m. CT on April 27, 2026. In the email subject line, please include 1) your organization’s name, and 2) the title of the RFP.
Submit your proposal by 11:59 p.m. CT on April 27, 2026 to [email protected]
Please be sure to include 1) your organization’s name, and 2) the title of the RFP in the subject line of your email.
RFP Schedule
| RFP issued by BrightLine, on behalf of ComEd | April 6, 2026 |
| Intent to bid due | 11:59 pm CT on April 13, 2026 |
| Deadline to submit questions | 11:59 pm CT on April 13, 2026 |
| Deadline to indicate interest in having the organization name released by ComEd for a potential partnership on the RFP | 11:59 pm CT on April 13, 2026 |
| BrightLine, on behalf of ComEd, releases names of vendors interested in potential partnership on RFP | 11:59 pm CT on April 15, 2026 |
| BrightLine, on behalf of ComEd, posts responses to questions | 11:59 pm CT on April 20, 2026 |
| RFP submissions deadline | 11:59 pm CT on April 27, 2026 |
| Respondents will be notified of the next steps after ComEd and the Customer Innovation Admin Team have reviewed submissions | Week of May 18, 2026 |