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STATEMENT OF WORK

FOR

Exploitation Unit One Gunnery Exercise & Combat Medical Care

1.0 INTRODUCTION

The Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD), Expeditionary Exploitation Unit ONE (EXU-1) has a requirement to provide Tactical Firearms Training and Combat medical care training to military personnel in various scenarios. Firearms training will encompass the fundamentals of shooting, moving, communicating, zeroing weapons, and then building to proficiency with pistol, rifle, transitions and stress courses. Combat medical care training will include battlefield, remote care, prolonged transport or unique rescue when environmental conditions exist.

1.1 SCOPE

EXU-1 Training department is required to equip and train staff with everything they need to train in Combat shooting and combat lifesaving skills as it is a distinctive form of arms employment characterized by the chaos, unpredictability, and demands of the combat environment. Contractor will provide personnel with shooting fundamentals as it relates to combat shooting, combat mindset, speed and accuracy.

The Contractor shall provide course curriculum and instruction for three (3) consecutive days of tactical firearms training for up to 15 students and a separate Battalion Staff Single (1) day firearms trainings Course of Instruction (COI). The Contractor shall also provide course curriculum and instruction for a three (3) consecutive day Tactical Combat Medical (TCM) training session for ten (10) students. All trainees will attend with body armor with plates, ballistic helmet, pistol, holster, ear and eye protection, and the number of rounds required for the pistol/rifle qualification drill they are completing. This can be tailored by the instructors as they see fit to facilitate training. Additionally, individuals shall use their command issued optics for their respective Category III and IV training and qualifications. Training shall include both classroom and practical training exercises in a realistic field environment. This course of instruction shall cover all the appropriate requisite material to complete the Navy NHQC, RQC per the OPNAVINST 3591, NECC CAT III/IV shooting course. OPNAVINST 1500.86, BUMEDINST 1510.25A.

The Contractor is required to provide all necessary equipment, materials, and training site to support this course of instruction. The Government will provide all necessary transportation for the students to and from training locations.

2.0 Three Day Tactical Shooting REQUIREMENTS

The Contractor shall provide classroom instruction followed by a combination of hands-on technical practical exercises and full mission profile scenarios that both inform the students and afford them an opportunity to practice techniques at a location the contractor will provide. The training curriculum is designed to support three (3) consecutive days of instruction for 15 students. The Contractor must provide both classroom and practical training that provides a focus in the following areas:

1) In-classroom training

2) Training exercise using static and multi targets

3) Dynamic courses “stress courses”

2.1 IN-CLASSROOM TRAINING

Instruction should be applicable to a multitude of environments from desert, to urban, to the cold weather encountered at high altitude and everywhere in between ensuring that the student is trained for all environments.

The Contractor shall provide course instruction to address the following:

a. Application of accuracy and time

b. Varied shooting positions (stable and unstable)

c. Rapid acquisition of a target that is not in your initial field of view

d. Use of cover and concealment (barricades)

e. Shooting multiple targets

f. Speed/tactical reloading of weapons

g. Use of secondary weapons

h. Weapons transition (primary to secondary)

i. Weapons malfunctions (immediate/remedial)

j. Varied target distances (multiple sight alignment)

k. Shooting while moving and adverse shooting angles

2.2 TRAINING EXERCISE

The Contractor shall provide a location for the Training Exercise. The Contractor shall conduct training that includes but is not limited to the following:

a. Category III/IV Pistol Core Competency: High or Low Ready, Standing Draw, Standing to Kneeling Draw, 180 turn (left or right), Speed Reload, Immediate Action, Remedial Action, Standing 25 yd Draw, Pistol Barricade Drill, Dynamic Pistol Course (three Course of Fire (COF) options – must perform one).

b. Category III/IV Rifle Core Competency: High or Low Ready, 180 turn (left or right), Speed Reload, Immediate Action, Remedial Action, Weapon Transition. Standing Distance, Standing to Kneeling Distance, Standing to Prone Distance, Rifle Barricade Drill. Dynamic Rifle Course (three COF options – must perform one).

c. Category IV Only: Stress test. Students shall use the knowledge gained through in-classroom instruction to make their own coherent and informed decisions about the selection and application of medical items to utilize during the training in realistic scenarios.

3.0 Single Day Staff Shooting REQUIREMENTS

The Contractor shall provide instruction followed by a combination of hands-on technical practical exercises that both inform the students and afford them an opportunity to practice techniques at a location the contractor will provide. The training curriculum is designed to support one (1) day of instruction for up to 15 students. The Contractor must provide instruction and practical training that provides a focus in the following areas:

1) Weapon familiarization

2) Training exercise using static and multi targets

3.1 Weapon familiarization

Instruction should be applicable to a multitude of environments from desert, to urban, to the cold weather encountered at high altitude and everywhere in between ensuring that the student is trained for all environments.

The Contractor shall provide course instruction to address the following:

a. Weapons familiarization

b. Varied shooting positions (stable and unstable)

c. Rapid acquisition of a target that is not in your initial field of view

d. Use of cover and concealment (barricades)

e. Shooting multiple targets

f. Use of secondary weapons

g. Weapons transition (primary to secondary)

h. Weapons malfunctions (immediate/remedial)

j. Varied target distances (multiple sight alignment)

4.0 Combat Medical Care

The Contractor shall provide classroom instruction at the contractor location fitting location requirements noted in 6.0 and followed by a combination of hands-on technical practical exercises and full mission profile scenarios that both inform the students and afford them an opportunity to practice techniques at a location the contractor will provide. The training curriculum is designed to support three (3) consecutive days of instruction with a minimum of eight (8) hours and maximum of ten (10) hours of instruction per training day for ten (10) students. The Contractor must provide both classroom and practical training that provides a focus in the following areas:

1) In-classroom medical training

2) Training exercise using human patient models

3) Practical procedures and skills laboratory

4.1 IN-CLASSROOM MEDICAL TRAINING

Instruction should be applicable to a multitude of environments from desert, to urban, to the cold weather encountered at high altitude and everywhere in between ensuring that the student is trained for all environments.

The Contractor shall provide course instruction to address the following:

· History of Combat Medical Care

· Ballistics

· Three phases of Care: Care Under Fire, Tactical Field Care (TFC), Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) with strict emphasis on the protocols to be followed in each of the three phases

· Application of tourniquets with practical

· Wound packing and bandaging with practical

· Proper placement and usage of nasopharyngeal airways with practical

· Review of advanced airway management techniques and procedures

· Down-man/wounded-man carry techniques

· Hemostatic agents with demonstrations

· Assessment and management of thoracic injuries to include needle thoracostomy

· Performance of secondary trauma assessment

· Assessment and management of shock with crystalloid/colloid fluids and transfusions of blood products

· Administration of drugs to include the indications and contraindications for pain management and war wound therapy

· Assessment of fractures and principles of splinting with practical

· Rapid casualty extraction, impaled objects and ocular injuries

· Assessment, management and prevention of hypothermia

· Management of hostile combatant casualties

· Usage of field medical treatment or casualty evacuation cards

· Principles of Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) to include: general considerations, platforms, medical regulating decision process and 9-line CASEVAC request

· Management of multiple casualties and tactical Casualty Collection Points (CCP)

· Pre-mission CASEVAC planning

· Prevention, assessment and management of heat casualties

· Prevention, assessment and management of cold casualties

· Prevention, assessment and management of altitude disorders

As part of the curriculum, students will be given the opportunity to perform physical assessments on their fellow students in a diversity of medical scenarios.

4.2 TRAINING EXERCISE USING HUMAN PATIENT MODELS

The Contractor shall provide a location for the Training Exercise. The Contractor shall conduct training exercises using human patient models which include different training scenarios such as Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (CBRND), high angle rescue, confined space and/or swift-water/ocean rescue, Firefighter / EMS / Police medical and rescue concerns, mass casualty and disaster planning and management, tactical movement, combat shooting, counter ambush and convoy operations, personal survival skills, Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). Students shall use the knowledge gained through in-classroom instruction to make their own coherent and informed decisions about the selection and application of medical items to utilize during the training in realistic scenarios.

4.3 PRACTICAL PROCEDURES AND SKILLS UTILIZING THE LIVE PATIENT MODEL

The Contractor shall provide a live patient model to allow students to utilize the knowledge gained in the classroom to conduct practical hands-on experience. The Contractor shall provide training scenarios, which allow students to practice the application of current hemostatic agents and bandages, tourniquet devices and other pertinent medical products and devices as applicable on a live patient model. The Contractor shall provide a training utilizing a ballistics lab and a live patient model to demonstrate the traumatic effects of ballistic wounds. In addition, the Contractor shall provide a training exercise utilizing the live patient model to simulate battlefield injury scenarios to include a mass casualty/casualty collection point exercise.

5.0 DELIVERABLES

1. The Contractor shall supply the targets and range training material.

2. The Contractor shall supply the Medical Supplies to ensure the exact same supplies are used during the training and certification are being issued to the student’s deployment. Having the supplies being purchased just prior to the training and certification dates ensures the deployment materials have the longest shelf life just prior to the operator’s deployments.

3. The Contractor shall provide detailed unclassified student handouts and student guides to complement academic lessons per class. Each student guide at a minimum will provide a paper copy of the slides used to teach each lesson (2 per page maximum). This package is deliverable to each participant upon completion of the training.

4. The Contractor shall deliver participant certificates upon completion of courses that state at a minimum the name and rank of each participant, hours of instruction, and course title.

6.0 PERIOD AND PLACE OF PERFORMANCE:

Place of Performance: The Contractor will have Training location for dates listed below with an 80 Mile radius of Indian Head, Maryland, 20640.

Period of Performance:

Option 1

Option 3 One Day Tactical Shooting POP Sept 1, 2026-Sept 30, 2026

Option 4

7.0 EVALUATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS:

The Contractor shall provide course evaluation forms that allow participants to comment on the primary blocks of instruction and make recommendations for improvement. The The contractor shall provide a summary of the information contained on the individual evaluation forms.

8.0 CONTRACTOR CERTIFICATIONS / QUALIFICATIONS

Instruction team should be composed of former military special operations personnel, Expeditionary Forces or police specialized tactical and combat shooting. All instructors and staff must be familiar with and compliant with the DOD requirements outlined in OPNAVINST 3591 COMNECCINST 3591.1A. Each instructor shall have hands on knowledge and be a qualified professional Subject Matter Experts with strong communication skills.