B1. Draft PWS for RFI.pdf

CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE FORCE (CBIRF)

TRAINING SUPPORT SERVICES (TSS)

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

1. General

The primary objective of this acquisition is to provide specialized training and to allow personnel to obtain the certifications needed to be mission ready and respond to an emergency in the event of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high yield explosive (CBRNE) attack in the National Capital Region (NCR) or Continental United States.

This is a non-personnel services contract to provide Training Support Services to Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF). The Government will not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers will be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn, is responsible to the Government.

1.1 Background

CBIRF is a one-of-a-kind organization of approximately 500 Marines, Sailors, and civilians with a complex mission that requires highly specialized training. This specialized training exceeds the training given to a service member in any of the more than 40 military occupational specialties (MOS) that comprise the unit. Members must be trained once assigned to CBIRF per NAVMC 3500.29D Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) Training and Readiness Manual (T&R)

1.2 Mission

CBIRF’s mission is as follows: To forward-deploy and/or respond with minimal warning to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high yield explosive (CBRNE) threat or event in order to assist local, state, or federal agencies and the geographic combatant commanders in the conduct of CBRNE response or consequence management operations. CBIRF will provide capabilities for command and control; agent detection and identification; search, rescue, and decontamination; and emergency medical care for contaminated personnel.

1.2.1 To support this mission, every Marine and Sailor is required to complete a resident fourteen-day CBIRF Basic Operations Course (CBOC) at CBIRF’s training center followed by an annual CBOC Refresher Course, and annual advanced training in specialty areas. Additionally, CBIRF must conduct company level exercises each year to ensure mission readiness. Many of these exercises are conducted as part of the United States Northern Command’s (NORTHCOM) annual training plan for the Defense CBRNE Response Enterprise (CRE), or support readiness to NORTHCOM operational plans.

1.3 Core Competency Sustainment Training

CBIRF’s basic unit of employment is the Initial Response Force (IRF). Consisting of roughly 160 personnel and roughly a 15-member IRF Command Element (ICE) with an estimated 32-vehicle support, the IRF is comprised of a variety of sections each of which requires familiarity with its specialized skill set as well as the overall CBIRF mission. To meet all requirements in a variety of crisis response scenarios, CBIRF sections require basic and advanced training in their respective core competencies. This understanding will allow the sections to operate as part of an IRF or allow them to be detached from the IRF to execute specific missions in support of crisis response operations.

Accordingly, the sections must be provided with initial and follow-on training to ensure proficiency in CBIRF’s capabilities and mission sets as well as meeting the training and readiness standards for their respective sections.

This training must ensure the section can operate in a variety of interagency and/or interdepartmental command and control configurations in support of local, state, and federal agencies as well as the geographic combatant commanders.

The contractor will provide training for all identified requirements within this PWS for CBIRF’s section and their personnel to respond to a crisis in a CBRNE contaminated environment. To perform these tasks, the IRF trains to the following core competencies: command and control, agent detection and identification, search and extraction, technical rescue, decontamination, emergency medical care, and explosive ordinance disposal. CBIRF’s Mission Essential Tasks are:

- Deploy Forces/Conduct Maneuver

- Conduct Crisis Response

- Perform Consequence Management

- Conduct Operations in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Hazard Environment

1.4 Individual Sustainment and Advanced Training

CBIRF, as a one-of-a-kind unit, has multiple training responsibilities that exceed those of a typical unit; this is because there is no MOS producing school that trains to CBIRF individual training and readiness standards.

Accordingly, Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM) publishes a CBIRF specific Training and Readiness Manual, NAVMC 3500.29B CBIRF T&R, which prescribes individual and collective training standards.

Further, CBIRF must train and qualify its individual personnel to appropriate federal and state regulations per CBIRFO 1500.1A Ch. 1. Finally, CBIRF must sustain basic MOS individual training standards and MOS progression for over 40 MOSs in the unit. All CBIRF personnel will be trained in a wide variety of tasks under various types of conditions to enable them to conduct operations in a crisis, likely in a CBRNE contaminated environment. This training must ensure each individual is capable of responding to a variety of CBRNE crisis response scenarios in support of local, state, and federal agencies as well as the geographic combatant commanders.

The Contractor will complete all standards set forth in NAVMC 3500.29B CBIRF T&R to train CBIRF’s military and civilian personnel to respond to a crisis in a CBRNE contaminated environment.

1.5 Quality Assurance

The Government will measure the contractor’s performance under this contract in accordance with its Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) and the contract’s Performance Requirements Summary (PRS). The focus of these is on what the Government must do to ensure that the contractor has performed in accordance with the performance standards. The documents define how the performance standards will be applied, the frequency of surveillance, and the minimum acceptable defect rate(s).

1.6 Principal Operation Support Areas

Principal support operations will occur at various venues, see Section 3, Objective 4.

1.7 Ordering Period

The contract will include a three-year ordering period plus the FAR 52.217-8 clause to extend services.

Delivery periods for non-severable requirements will be defined at the task order level.

1.8 Federal Holidays

The Contractor may be required to perform services on holidays as mission dictates. Such holidays are:

New Year’s Day Labor Day Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Columbus Day President’s Day Veteran’s Day Memorial Day Thanksgiving Day Juneteenth Christmas Day Independence Day

1.9 Hours of Operation

The contractor is responsible for conducting business between the hours of 0800 and 1700, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays or when the Government facility is closed due to local or national emergencies, administrative closings, or similar Government directed facility closings.

Exercises, operations, and surge demand may require additional hours. The Contractor must maintain an adequate workforce for the uninterrupted performance of all tasks defined within this PWS when the Government facility is not closed for any of the above reasons. When hiring personnel, the Contractor shall keep in mind that the stability and continuity of the workforce are crucial for uninterrupted services.

1.10 Security Requirements

Key Personnel, defined as the Program Manager and DRTF Instructors, are required to have and maintain a Secret security clearance. Overarching security requirements shall be as specified in the DoD Contract Security Requirements List (DD Form 254). The contractor will be responsible for all financial responsibilities associated with obtaining and maintaining a secret clearance or clearance eligibility. CBIRF SMO will service all personnel requiring Secret access in DISS.

1.11 Common Access Card (CAC)

All contractors assigned to work aboard Naval Support Facility (NSF) Indian Head, associated with Stump Neck Annex, or required to access systems on the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN) will coordinate with CBIRF Contracting Officer Representative (COR) in order to begin appropriate request to obtain a Common Access Card (CAC). Upon award of the contract, the Field Security Office (FSO) will coordinate with the COR of the contract and provide a list of all contractors (Name, SSN, date of birth and an email address) assigned to work on this contract.

All CACs are scanned upon entry to all Naval Support Activity South Potomac facilities (including NSF Indian Head and Stump Neck Annex) to ensure there are no wants or warrants resident in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Criminal Information Center’s Wanted Person Files. Personnel that have outstanding issues will be denied access to the NSASP facilities.

1.12 Identification of Contractor or Contracted Employees

All contracted personnel attending meetings in Government space, answering Government telephones, and working in other situations where their contractor status is not obvious to third parties are required to identify themselves as such to avoid creating an impression in the minds of members of the public that they are Government employees/officials. Contracted personnel are also required to ensure that all documents or reports produced by contractor personnel are appropriately marked so that contractor participation is appropriately disclosed. All Contractor personnel are required to wear identifying markers or badges on their clothing.

1.13 Organizational Conflict of Interest

Contractor and subcontractor personnel performing work under this contract may receive have access to or participate in the development of proprietary information (e.g., cost or pricing information, budget information or analyses, specifications or work statements, etc.) which may create a current or subsequent Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) as defined in FAR Subpart 9.5. The Contractor will notify the Contracting Officer immediately whenever it becomes aware that such access or participation may result in any actual or potential OCI and will promptly submit a plan to the Contracting Officer to avoid or mitigate any such OCI.

The Contractor’s mitigation plan will be determined to be acceptable solely at the discretion of the Contracting Officer. In the event the Contracting Officer unilaterally determines that any such OCI cannot be satisfactorily avoided or mitigated, the Contracting Officer may affect other remedies as he or she deems necessary, including prohibiting the Contractor from participation in subsequent contracted requirements that may be affected by the

OCI.

1.14 Exposure to Chemical Warfare Agents/Toxic Industrial Chemicals and Radiation

Occasionally training will involve live radiological sources. These sources will emit actual radiation detectable by equipment to increase the realism of the training. The contractor and the government may only expose contractor personnel to live radiation at approved training venues identified during concept development of the applicable training or exercise, and after a radiation safety plan has been issued. Contractor personnel are required to be monitored by a viable radiological monitoring program and attend and pass all required safety briefs directed by the Contractor and the government. The Contractor must be in compliance with appropriate OSHA standards governing radiation dosage rates and max accumulations.

Maximum exposure limits of 0.2 rem, (200 mrem) will not be exceeded at any time by Contractor or Government during training and will not exceed maximum yearly dose of 0.5 rem (500 mrem). The Government will provide the Contractor training team with the requisite dosimetry monitoring equipment, and the Contractor will follow all applicable reporting requirements.

Occasionally, training environments will involve live chemical warfare agents (CWA), riot control agents, chemical warfare agent simulants, toxic industrial chemicals (TICs), and biological simulants. Prior to any exposure required protocol review, review by CBIRF's Industrial Hygienists, Senior Scientist, and CBRN Officer, and approval by the CBIRF Commanding Officer is required. Contractor personnel participating in any training where exposure to chemical agents is anticipated will receive a unique safety briefing and acknowledge in writing the necessary safety requirements prior to any exposure. Prior to any exposure, all respiratory protection equipment will be inspected/tested and approved by CBIRF CBRN personnel. All personal protective equipment (PPE) will be inspected prior to use. After any chemical agent exposure, Contractor personnel will receive a one-page briefing sheet that describes symptoms of exposure, and what to do if symptoms develop. All Contractor personnel will be required to provide proof of the successful completion of a Hazardous Waste Physical including a Respiratory Physical per 29 CFR 1910.1200 before any exposure is authorized.

1.15 Emergency Preparedness Services / Force Preservation

The Contractor shall ensure emergency preparedness services are available to respond to the training facility for the duration of training exercises. Emergency preparedness services include, but are not limited to, ambulance service, fire fighters, etc.

2.0 Applicable Documents

2.1 Applicable Publications

The Contractor will abide by all applicable regulations, publications, manuals, and local policies and procedures.

Training requirements include, but are not limited to, those set forth by the following:

Department of Homeland Security, 2008. National Response Framework. [Online] Available at:

http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-core.pdf

Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2021. Incident Command System Resources. [Online] Available at:

http://www.fema.gov/incident-command-system-resources

NFPA, n.d. National Fire Protection Association. [Online] Available at: http://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/document-information-pages

United States Department of Labor, 2016. Occupational Safety and Health Standards. [Online] Available at: https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=9765

USMC, 2010. MCBO 4200.3 Contractor Screening Policy, s.l.: s.n.

USMC, 2016. NAVMC 1553.1A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO TRAINING USER'S GUIDE SHORT TITLE: SAT USER GUIDE. [Online] Available at:

https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/Electronic-Library-Display/Article/1044650/navmc-15531a/

USMC, 2011. NAVMC 3500.45 Airfield Emergency Services Training and Readiness Manual. [Online] Available at: http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/NAVMC%203500.45.pdf

USMC, 2022. NAVMC 3500.78C CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, AND NUCLEAR (CBRN) TRAINING AND READINESS (T&R) MANUAL. [Online] Available at:

https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/Electronic-Library-Display/Article/3245637/navmc-350078c/ USMC, 2014. NAVMC 3500.12B w/Change 1-4 ENGINEER AND UTILITIES TRAINING AND READINESS MANUAL. [Online] Available at:

http://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/ELECTRONICLIBRARY/ElectronicLibraryDisplay/tabid/13082/Articl e/172297/navmc-350012b-wchange-1-4.aspx

USMC, 2019. NAVMC 3500.54E COMMAND AND CONTROL TRAINING AND READINESS MANUAL.

[Online] Available at:

https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/NAVMC%203500.54E%20Command%20and%20Control%20T- R%20Manual.pdf?ver=2020-04-15-112155-037

USMC, 2021. NAVMC 3500.66D EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL TRAINING AND READINESS

MANUAL. [Online] Available at:

https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/Electronic-Library-Display/Article/1462265/navmc-350066c-cancels-navmc-350066b/

USMC, 2016. CBIRF Operating Concept, s.l.: (FOUO, Available on request).

USMC, 2026. NAVMC 3500.29D CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE FORCE

TRAINING AND READINESS MANUAL.

2.2 Definitions

CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT. Measures to protect public health and safety, restore essential government services, and provide emergency relief to governments, businesses, and individuals affected by the consequences of terrorism.

CONTRACTING OFFICER. A person with authority to enter into, administer, and or terminate contracts, and make related determinations and findings on behalf of the government. The Contracting Officer is the only individual who can legally bind the government.

CONTRACTING OFFICER'S REPRESENTATIVE (COR). An employee of the U.S. Government appointed by the contracting officer to administer the contract. Such appointment will be in writing and will state the scope of authority and limitations. This individual has authority to provide technical direction to the Contractor if that direction is within the scope of the contract, does not constitute a change, and has no funding implications. This individual does NOT have authority to change the terms and conditions of the contract.

CONTRACTOR. A supplier or vendor awarded a contract to provide specific supplies or service to the government.

The term used in this contract refers to the prime.

DEFECTIVE SERVICE. A service output that does not meet the standard of performance associated with the Performance Work Statement.

DELIVERABLE. Anything that can be physically delivered but may include non-manufactured things such as meeting-minutes or reports.

KEY PERSONNEL. Contractor personnel that are evaluated in a source selection process and that may be required to be used in the performance of a contract by the Key Personnel listed in the PWS. When key personnel are used as an evaluation factor in best value procurement, an offer can be rejected if it does not have a firm commitment from the persons that are listed in the proposal.

LANE TRAINING. Scenario driven training that allows for practical application of Training and Readiness tasks outlined in NAVMC 3500.29B CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE FORCE TRAINING AND

READINESS MANUAL.

PHYSICAL SECURITY. Actions that prevent the loss or damage of Government property.

QUALITY ASSURANCE SURVEILLANCE PLAN (QASP). An organized written document specifying the surveillance methodology to be used for surveillance of contractor performance.

QUALITY ASSURANCE. The government procedures to verify that services being performed by the Contractor are performed according to acceptable standards.

QUALITY CONTROL. All necessary measures taken by the Contractor to assure that the quality of a product or service will meet contract requirements.

SUBCONTRACTOR. One that enters into a contract with a prime contractor. The Government does not have a contract with the subcontractor.

WORKDAY. The number of hours per day the Contractor provides services in accordance with the contract.

WORK WEEK. Monday through Friday, unless specified otherwise.

2.3 Acronyms

Table-1 Acronyms

CBIRF Chemical Biological Incident Response Force CBRN Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear CBRNE Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and High Yield Explosive CFR Code of Federal Regulations COA Course of Action COC Combat Operations Center

COMM Communications CONUS Continental United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii) COR Contracting Officer Representative COTS Commercial-Off-the-Shelf CP Command Post CPX Command Post Exercise CWA Chemical Warfare Agent DA Department of the Army DD250 Department of Defense Form 250 (Receiving Report) DD254 Department of Defense Contract Security Requirement List DFARS Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement DMDC Defense Manpower Data Center DOD Department of Defense EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal EXPLAN Exercise Plan FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency FINEX Final Exercise FPM Final Planning Meeting HAZMAT Hazardous Material HHQ Higher Headquarters HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ICE IRF Command Element ICS Incident Command System IND Improvised Nuclear Device IRF Initial Response Force KO Contracting Officer MSEL Master Scenario Event List METL Mission Essential Task List NLT No Later Than OC Observer Controller OCI Organizational Conflict of Interest OCONUS Outside Continental United States (includes Alaska and Hawaii) OCT Observer Controller Trainer ODC Other Direct Costs OIC Officer in Charge PIPO Phase In/Phase Out POC Point of Contact POI Program of Instruction PRS Performance Requirements Summary PWS Performance Work Statement QA Quality Assurance QAP Quality Assurance Program QAR Quality Assurance Representative QASP Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan QC Quality Control QCP Quality Control Plan TE Technical Exhibit TIC Toxic Industrial Chemical TIM Toxic Industrial Material USMC United States Marine Corps UTM Unit Training Manager WAWF Wide-Area Workflow

WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction

3. Tasks

The scope of this PWS includes the following tasks:

3.1 Objective 1 (O1) Operational Training Support

3.1.1 The Contractor shall provide capabilities to cover instructional support services required under this PWS.

Instructional support provided shall encompass execution of training activities including daily performance of all training support and training management; and Consequence Management/Crisis Response related operational training. This service element requires Full-Time Equivalents to successfully support the magnitude of work under Objective 1 Operational Training Support.

3.1.2 Contractor personnel assigned to function as instructors shall possess the proper knowledge and communication skills to conduct formal training in multiple formats (oral, audio/video presentations, practical application, testing, etc.) that meet or exceed standards and guidelines. Each instructor must be proficient in the

Objective Task

Operational Training Support

Response Force Instructor Support (Severable) CBIRF Basic Operations Course (CBOC) (Severable) Lead Planner Services (Severable)

Course Content Review (Severable)

Exercise Development and Training Support IRF Exercise Training (Non-Severable)

Advance Courses and Regulatory and Compliance Training

Advanced Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) (Non- Severable) Advanced Medical Training (Non-Severable) FEMA ICS 300 (Non-Severable) FEMA ICS 400 (Non-Severable) Rope Level I, II (Non-Severable) Confined Space Level I, II (Non-Severable) Vehicle Rescue Level I, II (Non-Severable) Trench Rescue Level I, II (Non-Severable) Structural Collapse Technician (Non-Severable) Hazardous Materials Technician (Non-Severable) Hazardous Materials Incident Commander (Non-Severable) Hazardous Materials Operations Course (Non-Severable) EOD Hand Entry Course (Non-Severable) EOD Homemade Explosives Course (Non-Severable) EOD SOF Electronics Course (Non-Severable) EOD Tactical Combat Casualty Care (Non-Severable) USAR Medical Technician Course (Non-Severable)

Training Venue Support Close Range Contractor Provided Training Venues (Non- Severable)

Training Venue Support Mid-Range Contractor Provided Training Venues (Non- Severable)

Training Venue Support Long Range Contractor Provided Training Venues (Non- Severable)

Integration Services Program Management (Severable) subject(s) to which they are providing the training or management. Areas of proficiency include chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosion (CBRNE) preparedness, CBRNE detection and identification, command and control, mission planning, search and rescue, technical rescue, extraction, decontamination, basic and advanced lifesaving, crisis action planning, and force protection.

Instructors must be familiar with military and civilian personal protective equipment and respiratory protective devices.

3.1.3 The Contractor shall provide support to CBIRF’s training by developing training plans, lesson plans, student handouts, and audio/visual material, constructing and maintaining practical application training devices. The contractor shall develop exercise areas, to include partial building collapses; and management of students through all phases of training conducted at any of CBIRF’s training facilities, alternate training facilities, or in the field (classroom, practical application, clean-up, etc.). As such, the contractor must be familiar with the systems approach to training and the Marine Corps Training and Readiness system (to include the CBIRF Training and Readiness Manual). In addition, each instructor is expected to effectively communicate all progress, identify problems, provide corrective action, and address issues and risks, and possible improvements to their respective supervisor. This requires each instructor to be proactive in terms of identifying possible quality or operational improvements to the training program.

3.1.4 Minimum Qualifications for Operational Training Team Instructors: The Contractor shall provide qualified personnel with the knowledge, technical, physical and administrative capabilities to ensure effective performance of the contract. At the Government’s discretion, personnel who have successfully completed the course prior to contract award may be determined to have met this requirement.

3.1.4.1 Experience and educational requirements for Operational Training Team Instructors include:

Formal Instructor training 8 years of formal instructional experience 8 years of specialized experience in CBRNE defense while in a role of civilian First Responder

Consequence Management operations or disaster preparedness. This includes, but not limited to, professional or volunteer experience in Technical Rescue, Emergency Medicine, Law Enforcement, or DoW/Military CBRNE military occupational specialty.

Current in and maintain the following NFPA certifications:

a. Hazmat Technician

b. Site Operations

c. Confined Space Rescue Technician

d. Rope Rescue Technician

e. Vehicle and Machinery Rescue Technician

f. Trench Rescue Technician

g. Structural Collapse Rescue Technician

h. Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)

i. FEMA Search Specialist

3.1.5 Training Development and Maintenance

3.1.5.1 Develop and maintain training and lesson plans. Contractor shall establish training and lesson plans for each training event or class. Lesson materials shall be formatted in accordance with the USMC current standard and formatting approved by the COR. Link all training to the tasks found in the appropriate Training and Readiness Manual. Link all learning objectives to tasks, conditions, and standards published in the Training and Readiness Manual. The contractor shall deliver draft and final training and lesson plans in hard copy and electronic copy format. Deliverables

3.1.5.2 All lesson plans, at a minimum, shall include the following:

- Overview of lesson goals

- Learning objectives explicitly tied to Training and Readiness Manual events

- Enabling Objectives explicitly tied to Training and Readiness Manual events

- Safety issues to include procedures, warnings, cautions, and notes, as applicable

- List of applicable references (Marine Corps and Navy instructions, equipment maintenance manuals, etc.)

- Trainee guides, as required

- Technical publications/pamphlets

- Grading requirements and passing criteria

- Training schedule of lesson(s), to include breakout of classroom and practical application participation

- Identify training resources needed, such as projector, screen, computer

- Items for practical applications

- Test/examinations/exercises (i.e. oral, written, practical application) for determining student proficiency

- System Description

- Target Audience

- Training Assumption(s)

- Training Concepts, to include maintenance philosophies

- Training Strategies, to include cyclic training for retention of knowledge and skills

- Training Constraints

- Training Equipment and Facilities

- Safety Issues (Operator and Employment) and Safety Related Procedures, as appropriate

- Sources of Training Information (i.e. National Fire Academy Course, FDNY Hazmat Course, etc.)

- Proper Copyright Release/Authorization for the reproduction of training information

- Operational, safety, and maintenance issues not otherwise addressed

- Overall Training Durations

3.1.6 Coordinated Training

3.1.6.1 When tasked, the Contractor shall coordinate training for CBIRF with external organizations. Training coordination shall encompass training objectives and recommendations approved by CBIRF’s Commanding Officer and forwarded by the COR.

3.1.6.2 When tasked by the COR, the Contractor shall coordinate invitations to outside Federal, State and Department of Defense Agencies for participation in training events to create a diverse learning environment.

3.1.6.3 Basic Maintenance of CBIRF Training Facilities: The CBIRF Training Facility is the primary venue for CBOC and is where the contractor training team under Objective 1 will perform services. The contractor training team will provide the basic day-to-day upkeep when using the Government training facilities. Basic upkeep will include routine cleanliness during normal operating schedules, comprehensive cleanliness during and immediately after the completion of a training event (CBOC, unit training, etc.), submission and tracking of maintenance requests/work orders for routine repairs, and recommendations for facility improvements. Extend these tasks to the facility itself, personal workspaces, and CBIRF Training Center confidence trainers or laboratories.

3.1.7 Response Force Instructor Support

3.1.7.1 The Contractor shall provide qualified instructor support for unit training at CBIRF’s Training Facility and response force-level exercises. Support shall include exercise scenario development, site preparation, execution, control, observation, and evaluation. Support includes no more than four evaluated 12-hour certification exercises per year, no more than four 12-hour company training exercises per year, and no more than three mission rehearsals for two simultaneous IRF deployments with JTF HHQ and CBIRF CE evaluation exercises per year.

3.1.7.2 COTS Lesson Plans: Contractor shall design new equipment training curriculum and lesson plans as CBIRF’s Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Equipment evolves into new and different versions. This applies to all COTS that are not considered a program of record by Marine Corps Systems Command and/or not provided NET training by the applicable program office and will not exceed two NET courses per year per system/item. Equipment includes technical rescue tools, personal protective equipment, decontamination equipment, identification and detection equipment, EOD equipment, and other equipment common to first responders to hazardous materials or CBRNE incidents. New equipment training is conducted once CBIRF replaces a piece of current equipment with a newer version of currently owned technology, or new technology that fulfills the purpose of the previously owned or fulfills a previous capability gap. Training shall consist of proper usage of new equipment, user maintenance, care, cleaning, and storage.

3.1.7.3 Operational Training Plans and Lesson Plans: When required, the contractor will develop operational training plans and lesson plans for one company-level training event per quarter. Direct coordination with the COR will establish when and what types of training will require specific training plans and lesson plans, and times lines for review and approval. These lesson materials will be formatted in accordance with the USMC current standard and formatting approved by the COR. Situations typically requiring new or updated operational lesson and training plans include section level and IRF training that will be conducted at the CBIRF Training Center. All training plans will be linked to the CBIRF Training and Readiness Manual and learning objectives will be tied to tasks, conditions, and standards published in the Training and Readiness Manual.

3.1.7.4 Training Reports: Training Reports shall be submitted to the Government every month, at the conclusion of each training event in an approved format; each report will contain, at a minimum, the following information:

Deliverable

- Total student hours of training conducted

- Courses conducted (by title), to include the number of times each course was conducted, total course length

(in hours), and number of students attending each course

- Date of which the content of each course conducted was revised or independently reviewed

- Synopsis of student ratings for each course conducted (actual student rating will be kept on file for review at the Government’s discretion)

- Problems/issues encountered

- Remedial Action(s), if applicable

- Certification of students successfully completing each course with associated “by name” roster of students

- Accomplishment of Training & Readiness Standards (If applicable)

3.1.7.5 Just-In-Time and Surge Support Training: The training team will be required to support real world operations and deploy with CBIRF elements to provide “Just-In-Time” training to forces deployed in support of CBIRF.

Training will consist of individual and collective (2000 and 3000 level T&R events) from the CBIRF Training and Readiness manual for CBOC, extraction and decontamination tasks, providing one 8-hour evolution for each (CBOC basic tasks, decontamination, extraction) and will not exceed one evolution per year. The training team will not be employed or perform operational tasks in real world operations. However, the training team may deploy to the vicinity of the affected area to be available to train personnel as they arrive into the region but must remain outside of hazardous areas or hot zones. This training will be conducted in a safe area, away from chemical, nuclear, biological and radiological conditions that would adversely affect the contractor.

3.1.7.6 Contractor shall provide an Event After-Action Report no later than thirty (30) days after conclusion of training for each CBOC course, Refresher training, just-in-time training, and exercise per section 3.1.7.1.

Deliverable

3.1.8 CBIRF Basic Operations Course (CBOC)

3.1.8.1 The Operational Training Support team shall provide instructor support and support in development of course materials for the CBIRF Basic Operations Course (CBOC) and CBOC Refresher Training Program at the CBIRF Training Center.

3.1.8.2 The objective of CBOC is to train all members of the unit to operate as a basic CBIRF responder, learning the tenants of operational decontamination and extraction, as described in the CBIRF BN TACSOP. Furthermore, all graduates of the basic course will be certified in Hazardous Material Operations, qualified at the “operational level” in hazardous materials response and at the awareness level in all Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) technical rescue disciplines except for Swift Water Rescue, in accordance with the CBIRF Training and Readiness Manual NAVMC 3500.29B. The course is designed to qualify each student to enter a contaminated environment at all protection levels, assist in the identification and decontamination efforts, perform search and rescue operations, and learn basic first aid response and triage techniques. The training includes working at multiple elevations with ropes, performing search and rescue operations in simulated confined spaces, legal training on DSCA, and performing basic extraction in low to zero visibility. All training efforts meet or exceed current DOD, Marine Corps, OSHA, and NFPA requirements. Students are billeted at CBIRF Training Center during the entire training week.

While students are at the facility, a government member of the CBIRF training team will be available, on-site, 24 hours per day and a contractor shall be available during training events outlined in the curriculum. The CBOC curriculum is based primarily on 2000 level training and readiness standards in NAVMC3500.29B under the CBOC series.

3.1.8.3 Each CBOC training shall be tailored for a fourteen (14) day curriculum that occurs nine to ten times per year. Training shall be held at the CBIRF Training Center and must incorporate current CONPLAN overview brief on support expectations from CBIRF at the SIPR level. Training census is for approximately 30 students per course.

CBIRF schedules six CBOC courses each fiscal year and CBIRF is to retain, maintain, and keep ownership of all course material. Training audiences may include representatives from other units, civilians, and occasionally foreign military personnel. Training must be to the standard of CJCSI 3125.01D EFENSE RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, AND NUCLEAR (CBRN) INCIDENTS IN THE HOMELAND, JP 3-41

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Response chapter 2 Domestic Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Response, and DODD 2060.02, Department of Defense (DOD) Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Policy.

3.1.8.4 CBOC Refresher: The objective of the CBOC Refresher is to reaffirm and reinforce training received during CBOC annually. All personnel are required to complete one CBOC Refresher each fiscal year.

3.1.8.5 Each CBOC Refresher training shall consist of a two-day instruction period. Training location will be at CBIRF’s facilities in Indian Head, MD (to include its annex, Stumpneck, MD) unless otherwise instructed by the COR. CBIRF schedules between 12 CBOC refresher courses each year. Class size depends on the section receiving the training with a range of approximately 10 to 30 personnel.

3.1.9 Lead Exercise Planner Service. As part of the Operational Planning Team, the contractor shall provide one exercise planner designated as the Lead Exercise Planner.

3.1.9.1 Minimum Qualifications for Lead Exercise Planner: The Contractor shall provide a qualified exercise planner with the knowledge, technical and administrative capabilities to ensure effective performance of the contract.

3.1.9.2 Lead Exercise Planner minimum qualification requirements

Thorough understanding of Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP), and Rapid Response Planning Process (R2P2)

2+ years of experience working in Joint Staff as planner in operations or logistics 4+ years of uniformed DoW experience in exercise and operational planning 12+ years experience in military CBRNE related MOS Completed FEMA ICS 100 Incident Command System Completed FEMA ICS 300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents Completed FEMA ICS 400 Advanced ICS Command and General Staff-Complex Incidents Completed FEMA ICS 700.b National Incident Management System (NIMS) Completed FEMA ICS 800 National Response Framework Completed Advanced Diagnostics Training 1 Completed ARRT 1 Completed FEMA ICS 75 Military Resources in Emergency Management Completed IS-130.a How to be an Exercise Evaluator Must possess a secret clearance Must possess necessary credentials and certifications for DoD CBRN response per DoDI 6055.17 Must be a Certified Emergency Manager or Associate Emergency Manager

3.1.10 Course Content Review

3.1.10.1 The Contractor shall conduct course content reviews of all emergency response training materials used at CBIRF. Contractor shall conduct course content reviews and participate under a Course Content Review Board (CCRB) of all training courses to determine the need for course updates, to eliminate redundancy in courses, or to add/remove courses or content. No final changes will be made to course content until reviewed and approved by the government.

3.1.10.2 For this deliverable, the Contractor shall provide a Course Content Review Report and draft updated curriculum materials to the COR 14 days after the review is completed. Deliverable

3.2 Objective 2 (O2) Exercise Development and Training Support

3.2.1 Contractor shall provide exercise development support comprising integration with Joint Task Force level exercise planners, coordinating venues and training support, and provide exercise control, observation, and evaluation.

3.2.2 Exercise Training Support: The Contractor shall provide exercise-training support in the areas of scenario development and execution. There will be exercises involving the CBIRF Command Element and IRFs. These exercises may involve CBIRF alone or may involve other organizations. When requested, this training will include the participation of the contractor as exercise developers, controllers, observers, and/or evaluators. Each exercise may be on-site or off-site, in facility or field environments, and may require overnight contractor support. Plausible and realistic with minimal exercise controls vs. realistic response requirements. The contractor shall deliver exercise control development and support with subject matter expertise in exercise control, concept development, threat integration, and scenario thread development that enables the logical development of complex exercises.

3.2.3 The Contractor shall provide exercise design process coordination. They shall develop training event execution guides (exercise purpose, execution criteria, conditions, and human terrain products) tailored to CBIRF’s training objectives.

3.2.4 The Contractor shall participate in producing and reviewing exercise processes and procedures and shall identify and resolve all outstanding issues prior to the start of the exercise. The contractor will provide an exercise plan draft before the mid-planning meeting and a final exercise plan before the final planning meeting. Exercise plan will: Deliverables

- Provide one designated POC for the exercise in question

- Confirm EXCON capabilities, requirements, and staffing

- Provide scenario and timeline development

- Provide Master Scenario Event List (MSEL)

- Confirm logistics and administrative requirements

- Exercise evaluation procedures

- Determine outstanding RFIs/issues left unresolved or unanswered

- Identify venue that is appropriate for the exercise

3.2.5 The Contractor shall deliver exercise evaluation development and support with subject matter expertise in task analysis and AAR product development.

3.2.6 The Contractor shall create training scenarios that facilitate the evaluation of CBIRF Training and Readiness Manual events, Mission Essential Tasks (METs), and Annual Training Plan objectives; the MSEL and threads will facilitate the logical development of complex situations.

3.2.7 The Contractor shall analyze unit tasks, training objectives, and CBIRF core and assigned METs as part of the overall linkage to associated exercise support concepts.

3.2.8 Provide an assessment of CBIRF using the CBIRF Training and Readiness Manual, the unit METL (and associated tasks, conditions, and standards).

3.2.9 The Contractor shall provide a MSEL as part of the exercise plan that is based upon training and readiness standards and training objectives provided by the COR. Contractor shall coordinate up to two MSEL writing sessions for all Objective 2 exercises as part of the exercise design schedule. One before the mid-planning meeting and one after the mid-planning meeting. MSEL writing sessions will provide the government with an opportunity to review recommended injects and provide input to the MSEL, and before the final planning meeting. Deliverable

3.2.9.1 MSEL items both scheduled and on call will be provided to and approved by the government prior to the Final Planning Meeting (FPM).

3.2.10 The CBIRF Commanding Officer will designate, via the COR, the level of CBIRF personnel participation in exercise development for all joint exercises to control access to the script. As such, the contractor must possess the knowledge and experience to work exercise development issues without CBIRF personnel present while simultaneously protecting CBIRF’s equity in the exercise.

3.2.12 CBIRF Staff Sustainment Training and Evaluation. The CBIRF Staff and Command Elements require familiarity and training to prepare personnel to respond to a crisis that will involve multiple agencies and departments and will likely occur in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and/or high yield Explosive (CBRNE) contaminated environment. CBIRF staff personnel must be able to respond to crises with a high degree of confidence and integrate seamlessly into a variety of command-and-control scenarios in support of local, state, or federal agencies and geographic combatant commanders.

3.2.13 Initial Response Force (IRF) Sustainment Training. CBIRF’s standard deployable maneuver element is the IRF, a task organized, company-sized element of approximately 160 personnel and 32 vehicles, which combines and integrates the various capabilities resident in CBIRF; The IRF requires realistic training to exercise all aspects of its organic capabilities (search and extraction, technical rescue, identification and detection, EOD, command and control, medical, and decontamination) in order to ensure that it is trained and certified to deploy to a crisis, most likely in a CBRNE environment. The IRF must be trained in each discipline and trained to function together as a unit; further, the IRF must be tested in an exercise environment to validate its ability to integrate seamlessly into a governmental or non-governmental response to a crisis.

3.2.14 White Cell. The White Cell provides exercise control, evaluation, and manages the MSEL. The Contractor shall provide a White Cell to facilitate exercise command and control. The contractor shall provide members to a higher headquarters (HHQ) white cell as required by the exercise design. At a minimum, higher headquarters white cell participation includes Joint Task Force – Civil Support (JTF-CS), and Joint Task Force – National Capital Region (JTF-NCR). White Cell members must conform to unit working shifts.

3.2.14.1 Personnel assigned to the HHQ White Cell shall be designated by the contractor as subject matter experts (SMEs) on the tasks they are assigned to coordinate. The Contractor shall provide certifications and qualifications aligned with the training to the Government for validation to ensure proper SMEs are present

3.2.14.2 Personnel assigned to the HHQ White Cell shall receive training and/or training materials prior to the command post exercise (CPX) from the appropriate joint headquarters (via CBIRF) to standardize the process and reports for applicable exercises.

3.2.14.3 White Cell report formats, checklists, references, and draft concept training material shall be presented to CBIRF NLT the FPM. Required changes to these documents will be provided by CBIRF to the contractor within five working days after the FPM.

3.2.14.4 The HHQ White Cell shall provide a detailed verbal report with power point slides to the Contracting Supervisor that outlines coordination issues and solutions to HHQ.

3.2.15 Observer Controllers (OCs). Observer controllers are Subject-Matter Experts tasked to provide administrative control, evaluate task performance, and provide constructive feedback to participants during a training exercise. The Contractor shall provide certifications and qualifications aligned with the training to the Government for validation to ensure proper SMEs are present

3.2.15.1 The Contractor shall provide OCs for the IRF exercise. OCs are the cornerstone of an effective exercise.

When selecting OCs, the Contractor shall ensure that only the most capable individuals are selected. OCs shall be assigned duties and units to control, based upon expected play of the problem. OCs must conform to unit working shifts and shall not move around between multiple organizations.

3.2.15.2 The Contractor shall ensure that OCs do not confuse qualification recommendations with task validation (e.g., if a team has extracted 15 casualties from vehicles in a short period but used TTPs inefficiently they would be qualified to perform vehicle extrication with a recommendation to refresh training in door removal). Performing a task to standard is distinct from recommendations on how to execute the task more efficiently.

3.2.15.3 OC Duties and Responsibilities

- Capture After-Action comments

- Ensure safety of all personnel

- Facilitate the problem to be solved

- Must be qualified to perform their duties in an outdoor environment

- Ensure that the exercise is moving as designated in the Exercise Plan

- Report to the Senior OC any deviation in planning or execution by CBIRF that would impact negatively on the outcome of the exercise

- Shall provide information and recommendations to the Commanding Officer through a reporting process that qualifies organizations within CBIRF to perform to recognized standards, i.e., NFPA, OSHA, FEMA, etc.

- Shall evaluate task performance, and provide constructive feedback to participants during the training exercise

- Shall enforce all safety requirements from the Exercise Safety Plan

- Shall receive training prior to the exercise from the Contractor to standardize the OC process and reports

3.2.15.4 The OC director shall provide a detailed written report to the COR, or personnel designated by the COR, each day of an exercise that assesses CBIRF’s performance against its Mission Essential Task List. Deliverable

3.2.16 The Contractor shall conduct an FPC two weeks before exercise execution. The FPM shall include, but is not limited to:

- Confirm EXCON capabilities, requirements, and staffing

- Producing and reviewing exercise processes and procedures

- Ensuring all outstanding issues have been identified and resolved

- Ensuring integration into the exercise construct

- Ensuring all exercise products are ready to be executed

- Review scenario and timeline development

- Review MSEL

- Confirm logistics and administrative requirements

- Review and publish Exercise PLAN (EXPLAN) outline

- Rehearse controller plan

- Determine outstanding RFIs/issues left unresolved or unanswered

- Deliver minutes from FPM

- Deliver the final exercise plan

3.2.17 After-Action Report (Deliverable). The Contractor shall provide CBIRF with an After-Action Report (AAR) following each tasks/training events under this objective.

3.2.17.1 The AAR shall be presented to CBIRF no later than thirty (30) days after completion of the event. The Contractor shall provide a detailed written report, with supporting event documentation, to the COR that assesses CBIRF’s performance.