The National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) wishes to hire a Contractor to develop Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) consistent EMAC focused objectives and exercise messaging/injects for state-run exercises to test EMAC preparedness, the EMAC Request and Offer Process, the deployment of resources between states and the EMAC Reimbursement process in alignment with the core capabilities contained in the National Preparedness Goal.
These objectives will be drawn upon all the Core Capabilities within the Mission Areas of Response and Recovery identified in the National Preparedness Goal.
The selected contractor will write three (3) objectives for each of the 19 Core Capabilities identified in the RFP and describe expected outcomes common to the Compact members developing exercises involving EMAC.
The selected contractor will then write three (3) exercise messages/injects for each of these objectives that will drive the request of a resource to satisfy those desired outcomes.
These resources can be anything that states can deploy, including state-controlled resources, State National Guard resources, local government resources. Some states are able to deploy private sector/volunteer resources.
19 core capabilities: 69 objectives: 207 messages/injects
RFP Issued: December 8, 2020
Inquiry Period Begins: January 4, 2021
Inquiry Period Ends: January 13, 2021
Proposal Due Date: January 15, 2021 @ 5 pm eastern
Award Announcement: February 12, 2021
Questions and Answers
- Question: "Please clarify how you determined 69 objectives and 207 injects. If there are 19 core capabilities and 3 objectives per capability that would be 57 objectives with 3 injects/messages per objective then there would be 171 messages/injects"
- Answer: There are 19 Core Capabilities, but four of them are common to both Mission Areas of Response and Recovery, so Planning, Public Information and Warning, Operational Coordination, and Infrastructure Systems would have objectives in both areas. That makes 23 x 3 = 69. Three messages/injects each would be 69 x 3 = 207.
- Question: Would NEMA consider extending the due date into the following week to allow time to incorporate any changes needed based on Q/A responses?
- Answer: We do not anticipate the need to extend the due date.
- Question: Item 3 at the top of page 10 references the contractor’s experience developing after action reports – would NEMA like us to focus on the relevant experience and length of time we have been developing exercise objectives and injects instead?
- Answer: Yes, focus on exercises. The reference to after actions was accidentally left from a previous RFP.
- Question: Is there a maximum budget or not-to-exceed amount associated with this proposal?
- Answer: No.
- Question: Will Q&As be answered and posted on a rolling basis, or all at once after the inquiry period ends Jan. 13th?
- Answer: Q&As are posted on a rolling basis.
- Question: What is the combined file size limit of the email that is receiving submissions?
- Answer: Anything over 15 MB should be shared via a file sharing service such as Dropbox.