SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Develop Holistic Disaster Recovery-Creating A More Sustainable Future Emergency Management Higher Education Project Course
- Notice Date
- 4/16/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Office of Financial Management, NETC Satellite Procurement Office, 16825 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, MD, 21727
- ZIP Code
- 21727
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-E355674Y
- Response Due
- 6/19/2002
- Archive Date
- 7/4/2002
- Point of Contact
- Teresa Dingle, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 447-1077, Fax (301) 447-1092, - David Orris, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 447-1830, Fax (301) 447-1092,
- E-Mail Address
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teresa.dingle@fema.gov, david.orris@fema.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Emergency Training Center (NETC), Emergency Management Institute (EMI) has an Emergency Management Higher Education project/requirement for development of a college-level course entitled ?Holistic Disaster Recovery: Creating A More Sustainable Future.? This is a 100% small business set-aside. The associated NAICS code is 611430,Professional Development Training, and the small business size standard is $6.0 million [average annual receipts for three preceding fiscal years]. 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 in the private sector will come to the job not only with a college education, but with a course of study in emergency management as well. This will help to contribute to the professionalism 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/hihgedbrief/course2.ppt Course developers shall be college/university faculty with doctoral credentials and upper division college-level teaching experience, as well as emergency management and/or disaster field research experience. Emphasis shall be placed on the practical application of knowledge gained by federal and state agencies and organizations responsible for assisting local governments with recovery and the actions taken at the local level following disasters. Among the most important lessons to be conveyed in the course is the need to recognize the social, political and institutional systems in which disasters occur and the inherent design strengths and flaws that can both help or hinder the recovery process. The majority of discussion shall center on the impacts of disasters on political systems and organizational interrelationships, including how specific factors guide redevelopment, the implementation of mitigation measures post-disaster, economic recovery, community well-being, social justice, community empowerment and the development of institutional capacity. The course shall incorporate an evaluation of the level of inter-organizational coordination across state and local governments in order to identify whether federal, state and local programs compliment or conflict with the broad objectives of mitigation and sustainable redevelopment. The purpose of this requirement is to develop a 45-48 hour contact hour classroom-based course on ?Disaster Recovery Planning: Creating A More Sustainable Future.? The final product shall be a complete and ready-to-use course, which could be taught, ?as is? at 4-year accredited colleges and universities at the junior to senior level. The course shall be developed so as to enhance student understanding of emergency management principles and applications relevant to disaster recovery planning, and shall be developed within the philosophical context of ?Building Disaster Resistant and Resilient Communities,? which places priority emphasis on prevention, mitigation and vulnerability reduction. The course shall also be developed within the context of seeking balance between the two bi-polar approaches to United States emergency management: the dominant ?technocratic? approach and the more recent ?social vulnerability? approach. The course shall fulfill the requirements of a standard 3-semester hour college course at the junior to senior level and be developed so that it could be taught within an emergency management major or certificate program to students who may someday enter an emergency management-related profession. Since all deliverables shall be provided in hard-copy and in electronic format for distribution via the Internet, all deliverables shall be Section 508 compliant. Award of a firm-fixed-price purchase order is anticipated. The award will be made based on ?Best Value? to the Government, in accordance with the evaluation factors set forth in the Request for Quotation package. Quotes will be due 30 days from the release date of the Request for Quotation. See numbered note #1. Potential offerors must request the Request for Quotation package in writing to: Teresa Dingle, Contract Specialist, FEMA Flood, Fire and Mitigation Branch, E114B, 16825 S. Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, Maryland 21727 OR teresa.dingle@fema.gov.
- Record
- SN00060824-W 20020418/020416213342 (fbodaily.com)
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