Attachment 2 - Contractor Qualification Criteria - Explosives Specialist.pdf

ATTACHMENT 2

Explosives Specialist - Law Enforcement/Regulatory Enforcement Instructor

Contractor Qualification Criteria

Technical Proficiency:

1. Instructors must possess law enforcement explosives/explosion investigation, explosives regulatory enforcement, explosives training skills, or have unique experience, education, and training to support ATF’s explosives enforcement and training missions. These trainings and experiences are highly regarded skill sets and are required for specialty programs at NCETR.

2. Areas of expertise desired for Explosives/Regulatory Enforcement Instructors includes, but is not limited to:

• Criminalistics and Forensic Science

• Destructive Device Classification and

Reconstruction

• Electricity and Electronics

• Explosives Identification, Applications, and Effects

• Explosives Classification

• Explosives Disposal Techniques

• Explosives Laws and Regulations

• Explosives Manufacturing

• Explosives Range Procedures

• Explosives Risk Mitigation

• Explosives Testing Procedures

• Explosives Theft Investigation

• Explosion Investigation and Analysis

• Federal Explosives Laws and Regulations

• Fire and Explosion Dynamics

• Fire Investigation and Arson Enforcement

Techniques

• Homemade Explosives Identification, Process, and Disposal

3. ATF uses a variety of instructional methods, including classroom lectures and demonstrations, practical exercises (PE), and live range operations. The contractor shall provide input for the revision or amendment of the lectures, demonstrations, and exercises to provide updated materials, as appropriate and necessary for the course requirements.

4. Many courses require the instructor to provide both classroom as well as range instruction.

5. Contractor rates will be used for all services including, but not limited to, instruction, range activities, and course development.

6. Exceptions may be made to contractor instructors who possess unique qualifications based on commercial explosives industry experience, research and development experience, or graduate level education in explosives, engineering, and scientific related disciplines.

Education/Experience and Certification Requirements:

7. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a minimum of ten years of subject matter related work experience (i.e., law enforcement and military, with a major portion of this experience in the explosives and investigative operations arena) -Preferred.

ATTACHMENT 2

Explosives Specialist - Law Enforcement/Regulatory Enforcement Instructor

Or

A high school education with a diploma or a GED equivalency certificate and 15 years of general law enforcement/industry operations/military/or field related experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.

Or

A Graduate degree, with a minimum of 5 years working, instructing, or conducting research in the subject area at a level exceeding the students to be taught.

8. Special consideration may be given to:

• Those who possess experience instructing for ATF/NCETR explosives training programs within three years of proposal submission

• ATF Certified Explosives Specialists

• ATF Certified Fire Investigators

9. Explosives range instructors must have completed the ATF Advanced Explosives Disposal

Techniques (AEDT) school or have documented experience with providing range instruction for ATF explosives training held at the National Center for Explosives Training and Research (NCETR).

10. Instructors teaching exploitation or disassembly must have completed the ATF Explosives Evidence Exploitation (E3) school and be graduates of either Hazardous Devices School – Basic Course or Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD).

11. Successful completion of an instructor training course or demonstrated experience providing instruction in either a professional or academic classroom setting.

12. Provide approach to maintain the currency of subject matter expertise and updates to continuing education and required certifications.

13. Provide verifying documentation, upon request, (e.g., certificate of successful completion or attendance) demonstrating maintenance of subject matter currency through recent continuing education and training activities in the subject matter being taught. Subject matter currency may also be validated through the publication of subject matter related articles and research in nationally recognized professional journals or trade magazines.