Have a project at FNTP or close to it?
Initial procurement scoping calls are complimentary. Conflict cleared on engagement.
Most "solar procurement" you'll find online is one of four things: a distributor moving inventory, an EPC bundling components into a margin, a buying co-op aggregating volume, or a SaaS tool tracking purchase orders after the fact. CPES is none of those. We are the owner's procurement team, sitting between your capital stack and the supply chain, with no vendor commissions, no inventory exposure, and no scope to defend.
No inventory on our balance sheet.
We don't move boxes. We design the bid, run the competition, and award to the supplier whose terms protect your tax equity, not ours.
No component to defend.
An EPC's procurement function exists to protect their margin. Ours exists to make sure their margin is the only one in the stack.
Project economics, not pooled discounts.
Aggregation works for off-the-shelf gear at residential scale. At utility scale, the wins come from spec discipline, trade structuring, and ITC adders.
Decisions, not dashboards.
Software tracks what you bought after the fact. We sit in the room when the decision gets made and own the outcome on price, schedule, and bankability.
We define what gets bought before anyone gets asked to bid. Module class, inverter topology, tracker selection, BOS components, balance of plant. Bankable specs, not vendor-friendly ones.
The 2024 module manufacturer bankruptcies were not surprises if you read the financials. We screen tier 1 status, audited statements, capacity utilization, customer concentration, and warranty backstops before a vendor reaches a short list.
Multi-vendor competitive process with apples-to-apples scoring. We design the RFQ, manage clarifications, normalize bids on a common basis, and document award rationale to a standard tax equity will accept.
Module-level traceability documentation, polysilicon source mapping, AD/CVD exposure analysis, Section 201 and 301 tariff modeling. The point is to land your modules at port and clear customs without a hold notice.
Liquidated damages, performance warranties, manufacturer guarantees, change-order discipline, payment milestones, security packages. We negotiate the procurement contract that the lender and tax equity will fund against, not the one the vendor's standard form proposes.
Port of entry selection, freight forwarder management, warehousing, and the 5% safe-harbor rule for ITC qualification. Timing matters: the wrong delivery window can cost you a vintage of incentives.
The 10 percent ITC adder under the IRA is real money, but only if your BOM clears the manufactured product threshold and the steel and iron rules. We structure the procurement plan to capture the adder before bids go out, not after award.
Procurement output that holds up under tax equity diligence, lender's IE review, and IRS substantiation. No black boxes, no proprietary methodology behind a paywall.
Initial procurement scoping calls are complimentary. Conflict cleared on engagement.