DesignLights Consortium Seeks Proposals to Assess the LED Light and Wellness Commercial Lighting Market
The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking consultant services to assess and characterize the commercial market for LED light and wellness products. Proposals are due by March 29.
“This market assessment comes as the DLC is in the midst of implementing new solid-state lighting technical requirements that encourage development and deployment of lighting that provides non-energy benefits such as improving end-user comfort,” DLC Executive Director and CEO Christina Halfpenny said. “We are confident this project will yield data to further inform our efforts to support products that improve the wellbeing and satisfaction of people in the built environment.”
DLC is using the definition of lighting for wellness from the TM-18-18 publication by the Illuminating Engineering Society: “optical radiation that stimulates the circadian, neuroendocrine and neurobehavioral systems in humans.”
The Light and Wellness Market Assessment will focus on products designed and marketed to provide circadian lighting attributes such as differentiated spectral power distribution, color tuning to support different time-of-day protocols, optimized spatial distribution to increase vertical illuminance levels at the eye, and controllability that supports one or more of these attributes.
The project will cover the commercial office, education (K through higher education) and health care (including nursing and long-term care facilities) segments of the commercial lighting market. It does not include germicidal and antibacterial/antimicrobial lighting products, products marketed for light therapy or product categories not included on the DLC’s Solid-State Lighting Qualified Products List (such as consumer- and residential-grade products).
Services sought through RFP include identification of both market trends and barriers related to light and wellness products for the next five years. Among the issues the DLC is seeking to better understand are how market trends intersect with energy efficiency and controllability; how market trends may have changed due to COVID-19 impacts; whether barriers differ among market segments; and if there are barriers specific to the distribution chain. Those and other questions will be answered in a final report in late August 2021.
Complete details of the proposed project, its scope, timelines and RFP response requirements are on the DLC website. The DLC will post answers to questions on the DLC website on or before March 23. Bidders should submit their proposals via email by 4 p.m. on March 29. The DLC anticipates selection of a winning bidder on April 7, with a project start date of April 30.
