SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Develop Hazards Risk Mangement Emergency Management Higher Education Project College Course
- Notice Date
- 7/19/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Financial & Acquisition Management Division, NETC Procurement Section, 16825 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, MD, 21727
- ZIP Code
- 21727
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-E352253Y
- Response Due
- 8/30/2002
- Point of Contact
- Cynthia Adams, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 447-1221, Fax (301) 447-1092, - Kimberly Logue, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 447-1266, Fax (301) 447-1092,
- E-Mail Address
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cindy.adams@fema.gov, kim.logue@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, ?Hazards Risk Management?. This is 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]. A goal of FEMA?s is to encourage and support the expansion of hazard, disaster and emergency management related education in colleges and universities across the U.S. 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. This will help contribute to the professionalism of emergency management and the expansion of emergency management knowledge and principles in 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 Emergency Management Higher Education Project, which its primary purpose is to encourage and support the development of hazard, disaster and emergency management bachelor and graduate degree programs within U.S. 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_course 2.ppt Each Emergency Management Higher Education Project course shall be developed by college/university faculty with doctoral credentials and upper division college-level teaching experience. In addition, course developers should have emergency management or disaster field research experience. The purpose of this requirement is to develop a 45-48 contract hour classroom-based college course on ?Hazards Risk Management?. FEMA is currently developing a college course entitled ?Hazards Risk Assessment? and the Hazards Risk Management course is intended as a complementary follow-up to the prerequisite Hazards Risk Assessment course, within a program of study leading to a bachelors? degree in emergency management. The Hazards Risk Management Course will focus on how the risk management decision-making process is used in the context of hazards and emergency management. The risk management decision making process will help emergency managers decide whether the public entity should actively manage a risk or give it a lower priority. It will also help emergency managers decide whether to retain financial responsibility for the costs associated with a hazard or use risk financing techniques, such as insurance, to transfer all or part of the financial risk of that hazard. For hazards that are actively managed, the risk management process will help emergency managers more effectively advocate to decision makers the program, planning and policy initiatives they recommend. The goal of this course is to contribute to reducing the toll of disasters in the United States by halting and eventually reversing the increasing disaster losses the U.S. has experienced over the last several decades. Without intervention, these losses have been projected to worsen over the next several decades. The final product shall be a complete and ready-to-use course that could be taught as is at a 4-year accredited college and university 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 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 U.S. 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 is can be taught within an emergency management major or certificate program to students who may someday enter an emergency management related profession. All course materials must be Section 508 compliant. It is anticipated that a firm-fixed-price purchase order will be awarded using simplified acquisition procedures (under $100,000.00). The award will be based on best value to the Government, in accordance with the evaluation factors set forth in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) package. Quotes will be due 30 days from the release date of the RFQ. See numbered note #1. Potential offers must request the RFQ package in writing to: Cindy Adams, NETC Acquisition Section, 16825 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, MD 21727 or e:mail to: cindy.adams@fema.gov
- Record
- SN00121567-W 20020721/020719213654 (fbodaily.com)
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