Attachment 2 - A03 DRAFT PWS Child Safety Study.pdf

DRAFT

Performance Work Statement / Scope for the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Housing (ODASD(H))

Independent Assessment of Child Safety in Military Family Housing Units

April xx, 2022

General Background

Section 2817(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, Public Law 115-91, requires an independent assessment of child safety issues in military family housing units, with an emphasis on assessing hazards that may result in falls:

(1) ASSESSMENT. The Secretary of Defense shall enter into an agreement with an independent entity with experience in performing technical evaluations of the compliance of housing units with the codes and standards of the International

Code Council (ICC) and other relevant codes and standards to conduct and to submit to the Secretary and the congressional defense committees an assessment of child safety issues in military family housing units, with an emphasis on assessing hazards that may result in falls…

(2) RECOMMENDATIONS. The independent entity conducting the assessment…shall include in the assessment such recommendations for modifications to military family housing unit standards as the entity considers appropriate for ensuring the safety of minor children in such units.

DoD has approximately 33,000 government-owned family housing units. Approximately 800 of these housing units are located in the 50 States, as summarized in the following table;

approximately 1,600 of these housing units are located in the U.S. territories of Guam or Puerto

Rico; with the remainder located in foreign countries. Of the housing located in foreign countries, the vast majority are in Japan or Germany, followed by the United Kingdom, the

Republic of Korea, Cuba, the Marshall Islands, Spain, Italy, Australia, and Belgium.

Information on the number of DoD government-owned military housing units in each of these countries is not publicly available but will be provided to the entity awarded this contract.

Scope of Work

1. Complete the independent assessment of child safety in military family housing units and report the findings and recommendations for modifications to military housing units to the congressional defense committees as required by Section 2817(b) of the FY 2018, NDAA.

The assessment must be completed in accordance with the codes and standards of the ICC and other relevant codes and standards, with recognition that child safety standards for housing units may not be well defined in existing federal, international, or local codes, standards, or regulations. The completed report documenting the assessment, methodology, findings, and recommendations, must be delivered to the congressional defense committees no later than January 31, 2023.

2. The independent entity shall determine the appropriate method for completing the assessment using industry standards and their past experience. Nothing precludes the independent entity from proposing the use of sampling or any other methodology to complete the required assessment as requested by Congress, but the proposed assessment approach must meet industry standards and provide valid, defensible results for an assessment of child safety in

DoD’s portfolio of family housing units located at disparate locations worldwide.

3. The independent entity shall determine, based on its professional expertise, experience, and existing safety codes and standards, what child safety hazards need to be assessed in order to

DoD Government-Owned Housing Units

Located in the United States Excluding

Territories - Approximated and Rounded

Numbers as of January 2022

State # of Housing Units

Arkansas 10

California 190

Colorado 2

District of Columbia 1

Florida 10

Iowa 1

Louisiana 1

Massachusetts 10

Nevada 30

New York 20

Ohio 100

Oklahoma 10

Pennsylvania 10

Texas 1

Utah 120

Virginia 140

Wisconsin 120 SUBTOTAL Rounded 800 meet the requirements of Congress in requesting this assessment, and shall specify the standards it uses for the assessment, to include any standard that the independent entity proposes due to the lack of an accepted or well-defined existing federal, international, or local code standard, or regulation, in the entity’s final report.

4. The independent entity shall submit a copy of the final report and report data to the

ODASD(H) on the same date that the report is submitted to the congressional defense committees, which shall be no later than January 31, 2023.

Critical Tasks Elements

1. The contractor shall perform technical evaluations of the compliance of housing units with the building codes and standards of the International Code Council (ICC) and other relevant codes and standards with an emphasis on assessing hazards that may result in falls.

2. The assessment shall also identify and make recommendations for the modifications to military family housing unit standards appropriate for ensuring the safety of minor children.

3. The contractor shall perform and deliver the results of an assessment of child safety issues in

DoD government-owned military family housing units, with an emphasis on assessing hazards that may result in window falls.

Place of Performance

The Government has no specific envisioned place of performance for data analysis. For the assessment, significant travel, both CONUS and OCONUS, may be required.

Deliverables:

1. Final report documenting the assessment, methodology, findings, and recommendations, as required by the Scope of Work above, delivered to the congressional defense committees in electronic and hard copy format, no later than January 31, 2023.

2. A copy of the final report delivered, in electronic format and at least 10 hard copies, to the

ODASD(H) on the same date that the report is submitted to the congressional defense committees, which shall be no later than January 31, 2023.

3. A copy of the inspection data for each housing unit inspected as part of this assessment, a copy of any other data collected in support of the assessment, and the supporting analysis to determine the assessment findings, results, and recommendations contained in the final report, to be provided in electronic format to ODASD(H) on the same date that the report is submitted to the congressional defense committees, which shall be no later than January 31, 2023.

4. An in-person presentation to DASD(H) on the assessment, methodology, findings, recommendations and key takeaways to be provided no later 5 days prior to the report submission to the congressional defense committees (i.e., the presentation must be provided to DASD(H) no later than January 25, 2023).

Duration: 6-7 months