Emergency Management Exercise Support Services

The Agency’s Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR), acts as the Health Portfolio focal point for marshalling, coordinating and providing a wide range of preparedness and response services for which the Minister of Health is responsible.

The Office of Emergency Response Services (OERS), part of the Public Health Agency of Canada”s (PHAC), Center for Emergency Response and Preparedness (CEPR), coordinates emergency management exercises to support the Minister of Health’s responsibilities under the Emergency Management Act to:

•	Conduct exercizes and provide education and training related to emergency management; and
•	Conduct exercizes and training in relation to emergency management plans pertaining to Ministers area of responsibility.

Additionally, exercises coordinated by OERS are designed to support the objectives of the Health Portfolio and Federal, Provincial and Territorial (FPT) partners and stakeholders.

Exercises are coordinated at various levels and include stakeholders from the Health Portfolio, departments/agencies from Federal and Provincial governments, international organizations and the private sector.

The objective is to establish a list of resources that can support the delivery of emergency management exercises and their corresponding program management and administration tasks.  

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has a requirement for Emergency Management exercise design services.  This work may include but will not be limited to the following:

• Exercise design, delivery, evaluation, analysis, lessons learned, after action reporting and
   improvement planning 
• Conducting threat and risk assessment to inform multi-year exercise planning and design 
• Exercise Facilitation services
• Exercise Administration and Logistics
• Development of exercise audio/visual media including videos, print media, social media
• Design, facilitation and evaluation of senior management exercises (senior management being
   ADM and above)