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CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT

|Contract Opportunity Announcement |

| |Professional Service Contract |

| |Construction Contract |

|X |Service Contract |

| |Material Requirement |

| |Other |

|Contract Opportunity Title: |Defined Benefit Administration Outsourcing Solution |

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|Estimated Contract Value (Range): |$2,200,000 to $6,000,000 over a five-year contract term |

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|Work Location: |Selected service provider’s facilities |

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|Deadline: |August 8, 2012 |

Contract Opportunity Description:

1. Background Information

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PG&E Corporation.

There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out PG&E’s primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The Company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 14 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California. Our customers include over 20,000 schools, 3,000 hospitals, 20,000 high-tech companies and 700 military facilities. As the primary gas and electric service provider for Central and Northern California, PG&E has impressive size and territory that stretches from Eureka in the north to Bakersfield in the south, and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east. PG&E provides electricity to over 4.9 million customers and gas to over 3.9 million customers.

PG&E is determined to expand opportunities which enhance our commitment to diversity, safety, environmental stewardship, and corporate integrity. We anticipate that this evaluation process will provide opportunities for successful firms to expand their business with PG&E and also allow PG&E to realize reductions in costs, both internal and external. We believe this will be an exciting opportunity for PG&E and its current and future suppliers to reshape the way we work together and to improve PG&E’s operations.

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|2. Project Background |

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|PG&E has decided to outsource some, if not all of the administration of its defined benefit (pension) program, including |

|introduction of a new cash balance benefit to accompany its existing traditional final average pay pension benefit. |

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|The administration services that must be supported by the selected service provider are described in the attached Service |

|Delivery Model (SDM). The qualified respondent must be able to perform in-house substantially all in-scope services described |

|in the SDM. (Note: subcontracting of core services such as pension system implementation and ongoing management, call center |

|services and pension calculation services is not allowed.) |

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|Additional criteria the selected service provider must meet include: |

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|Total firm revenue of $700 million or more |

|Total participants on the pension system: 1,000,000 or more |

|Total employees supporting delivery of pension administration services (as described in the attached SDM): 200 or more |

|Total number of Customer Service Representatives supporting the call center function of firm’s pension administration |

|solution: 60 or more |

|Current pension administration client base of employers with more than 10,000 participants: 15 or more |

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|Next Steps |

|If your firm meets all of the criteria outlined above, can respond affirmatively to your ability to deliver substantially all |

|of the services in the SDM, and you have an interest in this opportunity, please sign, scan and return the attached |

|nondisclosure agreement to Kathleen Elliott at KME8@ by Noon, August 8, 2012. Upon review, PG&E will contact your |

|firm for additional information if necessary. |

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PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

NONDISCLOSURE AND USE OF INFORMATION AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is by and between ______________________________ (hereinafter referred to as "Company"), ________________________________ (hereinafter referred to as "Undersigned") authorized employee of Company (together, the “Receiving Party”), and PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (hereinafter referred to as "PG&E") on the date set forth below.

Undersigned and Company agree as follows:

1. The Receiving Party acknowledges that in the course of performing Work and services for PG&E, or in the course of being given an opportunity to perform Work and services for PG&E, the Receiving Party will be given access to confidential, commercial, PG&E-customer, business or personal information, and to information and materials including, but not limited to, information relating to drawings, maps, reports, specifications, designs, records, data and/or software, programs, code, computer models, and related documentation, which are owned by PG&E, its parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliates, and/or owned by third parties and in the possession of or licensed to PG&E, and which constitute valuable, confidential and proprietary information, know-how, and trade secrets, belonging to PG&E, its parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliates and/or third parties (all of the foregoing are hereinafter referred to as "Proprietary Information"). The term Proprietary Information shall also include all information, designs, data, documentation, computer programs, software, code, and any other items which Receiving Party uses in the performance of Work and services for PG&E, or which Receiving Party develops in the performance of its Work and services for PG&E.

2. In consideration of being made privy to such Proprietary Information, and of the contracting for the Receiving Party’s professional services by PG&E, the Receiving Party hereby agrees to hold the same in strict confidence, and not to disclose it, or otherwise make it available, to any person or third party, including any affiliate of PG&E that produces energy or energy-related products or services, without the prior written consent of PG&E. The Receiving Party agrees that all such resources and Proprietary Information:

(a) shall be used only for the purpose of providing services or Work for PG&E; and

(b) shall not be reproduced, copied, in whole or in part, except as specifically authorized and in conformance with PG&E's instructions when necessary for the purposes set forth in (a) above; and

(c) shall, together with any copies, reproductions or other records thereof, in any form, and all information and materials developed by Undersigned therefrom, be returned to PG&E when no longer needed for the performance of Undersigned's services for PG&E.

3. The Receiving Party agrees to abide by all PG&E policies and standards governing access to and use of computer resources and, specifically:

(a) to use only the user ID, password and Access Card assigned by Information Protection Services for his or her personal use, and

(b) to maintain the confidentiality of these authentication keys and protect them from use by others.

4. The Receiving Party hereby agrees that any third parties owning any Proprietary Information are express third party beneficiaries of this Agreement.

5. The Receiving Party hereby agrees that for any violation of any provision of this Agreement, a restraining order and/or injunction may be issued against the Receiving Party in addition to any other remedy PG&E may have at law.

6. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of The State of California.

|UNDERSIGNED | |COMPANY (of which undersigned is an employee) |

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|Signature | |Company Name |

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|Name | |Signature of Authorized Agent of Company |

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|Title | |Name |

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|Company | |Title |

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|Date | |Date |

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Exhibit 1, Page 1 of 2

62-0760 (Rev 11/00)

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