Solicitation Number:

HSFEEM-08-Q-0050

Notice Type:

Presolicitation

Synopsis:

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Emergency Training Center (NETC), Emergency Management Institute (EMI) has an Emergency Management Higher Education Project, which seeks to develop a stand-alone, 3 credit hour, 45 contact hour, semester length, essentially ready-to-teach, classroom-based, upper division undergraduate college course on Comparative Emergency Management. This requirement will be set aside 100% to small business. The NAICS code is 611430, Professional and Management Development Training, and the small business size standard is $6.5 million [average annual revenue for three preceding fiscal years]. Award of a firm-fixed-price purchase order, using simplified acquisition procedures is anticipated. The award will be made based on Best Value to the Government, in accordance with the evaluation factors set forth herein and in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) package. The Request for Quotation package (RFQ) will only be available on the FEDBIZOPPS website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. Prospective offerors are responsible for downloading the RFQ and all attachments. It is the offeror s responsibility to monitor the FEDBIZOPPS website for the release of the solicitation/ RFQ and amendments. The RFQ will be available for downloading on or about 15 days after publication of this announcement. No hardcopy RFQ packages will be mailed out from this office. The goal of this requirement is to encourage and support the expansion of hazard, disaster and emergency management related education in colleges and universities across the United States so that in the future more emergency management and related personnel in government and the private sector will come to the job not only with a college education, but with a course of study, if not a degree, in emergency management as well. Because emergency management is a multidisciplinary field of study, this helps contribute to the professionalization of emergency management and the expansion of emergency management knowledge and principles into other professions and disciplines as well--all of which contributes to building disaster resistant and resilient communities of tomorrow. Toward that end, EMI, located at the NETC in Emmitsburg, Maryland, developed the Higher Education Project, the primary purpose of which is to encourage and support the development of hazard, disaster and emergency management bachelor and graduate degree programs within United States colleges and universities. Each Emergency Management Higher Education Project course shall be developed within the philosophical context of (1) building disaster resistant and resilient communities, and (2) seeking balance between the technocratic and the social vulnerability reduction approaches to emergency management. Please refer to the Higher Education Project Slide Presentation at the following website address: http://training.fema.gov/EMIweb/edu/highedbrief_course2.ppt. A listing of the completed Emergency Management Higher Education Project courses can be found at the following website: http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu/highedbief_course2ppt. Additional information concerning the Emergency Management Higher Education Project can be accessed at: http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu/aem_courses.htm.
Offerors shall be able to provide demonstration of the following: 1) academic inter-disciplinary course development team work; 2) international course development team work representing more than a single country; 3) experience teaching hazard, disaster and/or emergency management-related courses at the upper division or graduate college level at an accredited university within the past five years and be able to provide course titles, dates, and copies of most relevant course syllabi; 4) knowledge of and background in the subject matter of comprehensive emergency management; 5) background, credentials and expertise in the subject matter of international and comparative emergency management, preferably by the provision of a copy of a college course syllabus for an emergency management course taught by the offeror or by one of the proposed course development team members that relates to comparative emergency management from an international perspective; 6) familiarity with emergency management-related social science literature; 7) familiarity with international emergency management literature; 8) familiarity with emergency management-related governmental material, particularly that of a doctrinal nature. 9) Additionally, at least one principal course development team member shall provide evidence of holding a doctoral degree from an accredited college or university. The offeror shall submit resumes with their quotation package for all individuals identified as Key Personnel, in order to clearly demonstrate that all qualifications set forth are met. For example, some of the tasks of the contractor will be to develop a work plan, attend course development/focus group meetings at NETC, develop a course outline/syllabus, develop draft course material, attend course-review comment meetings at EMI/NETC, and attend the annual Higher Education Project Summer Conference and give a presentation(s), develop final course materials, etc.

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16825 South Seton Avenue
Emmitsburg, Maryland 21727

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