Lance Ewing has been using Requests for Quotes (RFQs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since 1985.  He has used these for businesses, individual strata corporations, a group of strata corporations working collaboratively, groups of homeowners, and for personal purchases. 

He and his neighbours who participated in a 2024 group RFP for solar and battery storage saved an average of more than $14,000 via discounts due to the RFP process.  That is in addition to government and utility incentives. 

Lance was a paramedic in Vancouver in the 1980s while also owning a company providing industrial ambulances and first aid attendants.  A back injury saw him go into occupational safety and health.  After success in mining, where he also helped update provincial rope rescue standards, Lance provided safety management consulting to other industries.  He represented employers during a rewrite of B.C.’s occupational safety and health regulations.  He owned an ergonomics consulting firm, was an expert witness for the BC Coroner’s service, and conducted safety audits of penal facilities in B.C.

As a volunteer, Lance has served with North Shore Rescue, St. John Ambulance, alpine and Nordic ski patrols, and as a bicycle trip leader with the American Youth Hostel Association.  He was a founder of western Canada’s first volunteer Nordic ski patrol.  He has been both a member and coach of first aid, mine rescue and ski patrol competition teams.  As President of the Board of Directors of an 872-unit condo corporation, Lance initiated cost savings via RFPs, including group RFPs with neighbouring condo corporations.

Volunteer advocacy for seniors began after he cared for his parents as they suffered through dementia.  Lance became aware of how vulnerable his parents, and their friends, were to unethical salespeople.  In 2023, now a senior citizen and living in the same strata community his parents once did, he volunteered to write separate RFPs for replacement shingle roofs and for solar (with optional battery storage).

Lance has advocated changes to BC Hydro rate groups to benefit seniors.  He also suggested BC Hydro and/or the provincial government facilitate group projects to help make solar more affordable for more BC residents; when that suggestion seemingly fell on deaf ears, he began to offer this service.

Lance and his wife of more than 30 years live in West Kelowna.

Retainer fees from Group RFPs support advocacy for consumer protection.