Incident Command System (ICS)-Based Exercise Support: Development, Facilitation, Evaluation and Training

The purpose of this Request for Proposals is to solicit proposals, on a competitive basis, to establish contract(s) for the delivery of all-hazard, ICS-based exercise support services to Coast Guard/DFO, particularly with design, facilitation, evaluation and exercise-specific training. The Contract would be for the 2019-2020 fiscal year (from time of Contract award to March 31, 2020), with the possibility of three (3) option years:

• Option year 1 – from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021;
• Option year 2 – from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022; and,
• Option year 3 – from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.

Exercise support services will be provided on an “as and when” required basis as part of this Contract.

The contracts will be awarded individually to one or more bidders (i.e. the resources can be provided individually by separate Bidders, or all three (3) resources can be provided by a single Bidder). 

• One (1) contract is for one Bidder to supply one (1) Resource who is fully bilingual in French and English at the advanced level. 
• The other two (2) contracts are for one or more Bidders to supply up to two (2) Resources who are proficient in English at the advanced level.