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STATEMENT OF WORK

FOR

ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE COURSE PURCHASE

FOR THE U.S. COAST GUARD (USCG)

OFFICE OF MARITIME SECURITY RESPONSE POLICY (CG-MSR)

1.0 GENERAL

1.1 PURPOSE: Provide Active Shooter response training to Coast Guard Law Enforcement Officers who may be required to respond to Active Shooter threats in the exercise of the Ports, Waterways and Coastal Security Mission.

1.2 SCOPE: The United States Coast Guard Office of Maritime Security Response Policy seeks to train 48 students on the basic tactics for resolving an Active Shooter event, using both team and individual response techniques in order to isolate, contain, and stop the event. This course will be delivered to Coast Guard Law Enforcement officers who will likely be the first to respond to an Active Shooter/Active Threat (AS/AT) event in the maritime environment. At the completion of this course, the Law Enforcement officer will be trained to move to and resolve a threat and be certified to train other students in these same tactics and procedures. This statement of work encompasses holding two consecutive courses.

2.0 REQUIREMENTS

2.1 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: The courses must be conducted during two consecutive weeks, August 5th- 9th and August 12th-16th of 2019.

2.2 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Both courses will be held in the training room at Sector Field Office Galveston and on a training vessel arranged by the local command:

United States Coast Guard Sector Field Office Galveston

3.0 BACKGROUND

One of the Coast Guard’s 11 statutory missions, codified in the Homeland Security Act of 2002, is Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security (PWCS). This mission requires Coast Guard units to maintain the awareness and capability to detect, deter, disrupt, and defeat threats in the U.S. Maritime Domain and in the U.S. Marine Transportation System (MTS). Attack scenarios have traditionally focused on sabotage, espionage, or subversive acts. The Coast Guard is charged with preparing, responding to, and recovering from attacks by denying the use and exploitation of the MTS by terrorists and extremists as a means for attacks on U.S. territory, population centers, vessels, critical infrastructure, and key resources. Recently, the Active Shooter/Active Threat (AS/AT) scenario has emerged as a tactic increasingly used by terrorists, lone-wolves, and homicidal actors to terrorize the public or gain notoriety.

To address this emerging threat, in April 2018, the Coast Guard Response Policy Directorate promulgated the Maritime Security Response Operations (MSRO) Policy Letter 03-18 which provides amplifying policy guidance to ensure the Coast Guard is meeting current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) objectives with regard to the security of "Soft Targets and Crowded Places" (ST-CPs). The policy guidance is designed to deter potential attacks; and facilitate timely decisions by Sector/Unit Commanders, Coxswains, Boarding Officers, and Boarding Team Members to respond to and mitigate AS/AT attacks on ST-CPs within or adjacent to the maritime realm. This same policy identified that Active Shooter Response training should be pursued to bring the gap between the current training of Boarding Officers and the specific Active Shooter Response Training received by most police forces.

4.0 PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

The curriculum delivered during the Active Shooter Response course should cover the topics identified below. This is the minimum training requirements necessary to prepare LE personnel for AS/AT scenarios. These topics generally represent the key areas for successful Active Shooter response. This course should address these or similar items:

1. Initial response to an active threat

2. Handling suspects with visible weapons

3. Rapid response tactics

4. Door entry and room clearing

5. Active threat considerations

6. Clear and cover danger areas

7. Safe weapons handling for tactical operations

8. Contact and Cover techniques for tactical applications

9. Tactical use of cover and concealment

10. Coordination of contact teams

11. Non-traditional response techniques to save lives

12. Proper body movement techniques in tactical applications

13. Search and rescue teams

The course must include practical exercises to apply tactics, techniques and procedures in a scenario. At least two scenarios must simulate a situation that could occur in a shipboard environment. The courses will not only be able to broadly address the above 13 topics, but also deliver them in a train-the-trainer format where students will be able to deliver the training to others upon completion of the course.

5.0 OPERATING CONSTRAINTS

5.1 COURSE LENGTH: Each course can be no longer than 40 hours (five days) worth of instruction (80 hours for both courses combined)

5.2 COURSE SIZE: Each course must be able to support training for at least 24 students (48 students for both courses combined).

6.0 OPERATING CONSTRAINTS

6.1 COURSE ACCREDITATION: The course must be federally recognized by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation (FLETA), be approved for federal grant funding, and/or the program must be partnered/affiliated with the Bureau of Justice Assistance or the Department of Homeland Security.

6.2 COURSE ADDRESS: The course(s) shall be conducted to the following address within 90 days after receipt of delivery order award.

United States Coast Guard Sector Field Office Galveston

6.3 COURSE POCS:

1. Project Manager (PM) CDR Kevin Saunders, E-mail: kevin.b.saunders@uscg.mil, Phone: 202-372-2124

2. Acquisitions: LCDR Anthony Ippolito, E-mail: Anthony.v.ippolito@uscg.mil, Phone: 202-372-2027

The contractor shall contact the Contracting Officer immediately regarding any delivery delays or status changes that may affect or delay the timely shipment and delivery of the items.