SOW_Tactical Vehicle Operations Course_FY25.pdf

U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Professional Services Acquisition Unit

Tactical Vehicle Operations Course

Statement of Work (SOW)

Date Version Change Summary

Tactical Vehicle Operations Course SOW

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1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Counterterrorism Division (CTD) Fly Team detects and disrupts threat actors from engaging in criminal or terrorist activities in OCONUS environments through the deployment of specially trained Agents alongside Department of Defense (DoD) partners to further FBI/IC cases against known subjects and illuminate threats to the homeland.

Newly assigned Fly Team Special Agents (FTA) must complete a rigorous training program lasting approximately eight months known as Fly Team Agent Core Training (FACT). FTA’s must successfully complete the FACT curriculum in order to be certified as “deployable” FTA’s. Once certified and operational, FTA’s use their certifications and skills across a multitude of disciplines in order to respond to potential OCONUS requirements in support of Counterterrorism matters.

Required skills are encompassed in a Mission Essential Task List (METL):

1. Conduct Command and Control.

2. Conduct Interviews and Interrogations.

3. Conduct Evidence Recovery and Site Exploitation.

4. Conduct Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Collection and Dissemination.

5. Conduct Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX).

6. Conduct Force Protection Activities.

Each METL outlined above encompasses collective and individual tasks that must be trained to and evaluated in order to measure individual readiness to deploy. Force Protection Activities under METL 6 include proficiencies in vehicle and tactical vehicle operations.

This collective or individual task must be completed under various conditions, referring to the conditions under which driving must be conducted. This includes but is not limited to low-light and no-light conditions, varied weather conditions, driving while employing radios or other tactical equipment such as night vision devices, driving while under fire or in smokey or other battlefield conditions, or other additional conditions under which individual and collective training standards must be accomplished.

To this end, the CTD Fly Team submits the following SOW for contracted training that addresses the above individual tasks and conditions.

1.2 Scope

The contractor shall provide tactical vehicle operations training. Each course will have a maximum of fifteen (15) attendees. to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Counterterrorism Division (CTD) Fly Team. This is a non-personal services contract. The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over contractor employees performing the services herein.

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Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the Government.

1.3 Objectives

The tactical vehicle operations course shall provide FTAs familiarization with vehicle operations skills, techniques, and scenarios that may be encountered in austere OCONUS/battlefield environments. At the conclusion of the course, FTAs will be proficient in operating various types of vehicles at average or high speeds, under average or battlefield conditions, upon hard surface or improved surface roads, and under low-light/no-light or obscured conditions.

1.4 Contract Type

This is a firm fixed price (FFP) contract as the requirement is well defined.

2.0 Requirements

This is a non-personal services contract. As such, the Government will not exercise any supervision or control over contractor employees performing the services herein. Contractor personnel shall be accountable solely to the contractor who, in turn, is responsible to the Government.

The contractor shall provide a four-day tactical vehicle operations course for up to fifteen (15) FBI FTAs.

The four-day training program shall include classroom instruction, practical exercises, and drills designed to build aforementioned skills. Additionally, the course shall be designed to reflect Fly Team OCONUS deployments where the common interagency partners are members of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) or other Special Operations Task Forces (SOTF). All drills and instructions should take into consideration the individual equipment issued to FTAs and the austere nature of Fly Team OCONUS assignments. The contractor must own or have access to suitable training facilities that include (at a minimum) classroom space with multimedia capability, and suitable driving track and/or trails for practical application of learned skills.

2.1 Course Requirements

The tactical vehicle operations course shall include, but is not limited to, the following:

Core Driver Training Fundamentals of vehicle control Serpentines Off-road recovery drills Skid pad exercises Straight line braking and braking while turning Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) limitations Accident-avoidance exercises Y&J turns Driver down exercises Emergency driving Street line driving

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Driving utilizing night vision devices

Evasive Driving

Close proximity/barricade breaching (ramming)

Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT)

Two-footed driving

Defensive PIT

Attack recognition

Barricade confrontation

SUV familiarization

SUV swerve-to-avoid, serpentine, backing exercises

Single vehicle attack

Evasive driving utilizing night vision devices

Convoys

Convoy operations and movement lecture, practical exercises

Convoy actions on contact lecture, practical exercises

Convoy vehicle attack lecture, practical exercises

Convoy operations utilizing night vision devices

Manual, Right-Hand Drive, FAV Familiarization

Manual transmission familiarization

Serpentine, swerve-to-avoid, backing

Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV) familiarization lecture, practical application exercise

FAV street line driving exercise

Manual, right-hand drive, FAV street line driving utilizing night vision devices

3.0 Period of Performance

The Period of Performance (PoP) is January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2030.

3.1 Place of Performance

The primary place of performance will be at a training facility owned, leased, operated, or otherwise available to the contractor located within the Continental United States. The training site would preferably be within reasonable driving distance (within 8 hours) to McLean, Virginia.

Lodging at the facility is not required.

3.2 Hours of operation

Normal daily training operations will generally be expected to run from 0800 to 1800 local time;

certain days will need to be flexible on scheduled hours to accommodate nighttime operations and training requirements.

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4.0 Deliverables

The Contractor shall be responsible for providing the following deliverable:

The Contractor shall be responsible for successful completion of the 4-day tactical vehicle operations course. Contractor will provide a certificate of completion to each student. No report or statistics are required from the contractor upon completion of the course.

5.0 Government Furnished Equipment or Information

The Government will provide NO equipment that is not organic to the Fly Team Special Agent.

Special Agents will be equipped with individual protective equipment (uniform, body armor, individual weapons and first aid kit, gloves, eye protection, hearing protection, and night vision devices. The Contractor will provide all vehicles and associated equipment, safety equipment, and repair parts and accessories required for safe and continuous conduct of the training curriculum.

If specific safety equipment is required for a portion of the course (i.e. racing helmet), it will be provided by the Contractor.

6.0 Contract Administration

The contractor shall only receive instruction and guidance from the Contracting Officer (CO) and Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), specific to their positions, as described below.

Contractors who rely on instruction from personnel other than the CO or COR do so at their own risk and expense. Such actions do not bind the Government contractually. All contractual questions shall be directed to the CO. Contact information for the COR will be provided via COR Delegation Letter at the time of award.

The contractor shall notify the CO and COR in writing within three (3) business days if they receive instruction (i.e., changes in scope, location, or concerns about contractor performance) from anyone other than the CO or COR.

6.1 Contracting Officer

The CO is the appointed authority to bind the Government to the extent of the authority delegated.

Direction modifying the scope, schedule, terms and conditions, funding, or any other action modifying the call order as originally entered with the Government must be given only by the CO.

Contact information for the call order CO is provided below.

Ashley Johnson, Contracting Officer Professional Services Acquisition Unit (PSAU) Redstone Arsenal, AL Email: aljohnson5@fbi.gov

6.2 Contract Specialist (CS)

The CS will assist the CO in the administration of this contract. Contact information for the CS is provided below.

Sara Hardy, Contract Specialist Professional Services Acquisition Unit (PSAU) Redstone Arsenal, AL

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Email: sjhardy@fbi.gov

6.3 Contracting Officer Representative

The CO has appointed a COR to help provide administration and management support of the work to be performed under the call order. The contractor shall coordinate the award of new call orders and the delivery of deliverables with the COR. Contact information for the COR will be provided after call order award.

The COR is not authorized to change any of the terms and conditions of the call order. The contractor is advised only the CO can change or modify the call order terms or take any other action which obligates the Government. Then, such action must be set forth in a formal modification to the call order. The authority of the COR is strictly limited to him/her, without re-delegation, for the specific duties set forth in their letter of appointment.

6.4 Invoicing Instructions

The FBI has transitioned its invoice payment processing operations to the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP). This was executed as part of a broader effort to meet compliance with the Office of Management and Budget’s 2018 electronic invoicing mandate.

IPP is a secure, web - based electronic invoicing system provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRSTL). IPP is available at no cost to any commercial contractor or independent contractor doing business with a participating government agency. To learn more about IPP, please visit IPP.gov.

To prepare for this transition, please review the following timeline and actions:

Upon receipt of this notification

Request an IPP user account from your company’s IPP administrator if your company is registered in IPP but you do not already have an account.

Send the name of a POC who will act as your company’s IPP administrator to the FBI if your company is not registered in IPP.

Review IPP training and help materials.

Obtaining Access to IPP (Registered Contractors)

If your company is already registered in IPP, you will not be required to re-register. Please contact your organization’s IPP account administrator so he/she may add you as an additional user to your company’s vendor profile.

Obtaining Access to IPP (Unregistered Contractors)

If your company is not already registered in IPP, you are required to provide the FBI with a point of contact to serve as your IPP administrator. This individual will be responsible for initial account registration as well as creating and managing your company’s IPP users and permissions. Once

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The POC will receive two emails from IPP Customer Support:

The first email contains the initial administrative IPP User ID.

The second email, sent within 24 hours of receipt of the first email, contains a temporary password.

You must log in with the temporary password within 30 days.

Registration is complete when the initial administrative user logs into the IPP web site with the User ID and password provided and accepts the rules of behavior. Additional user accounts, including administrators, can be created after initial login.

Until further notice, point of contact information pertaining to who will serve as your company’s IPP administrator should be forwarded to Keenan Robinson (krobinson2@fbi.gov) and Jimmy Riffle (jdriffle@fbi.gov). Please include the following contact information:

Full name Email address Phone number Title

Training

Contractor training materials, including a first - time login tutorial, are available on the IPP.gov website. Once you have logged in to the IPP application, you will have access to user guides providing step – by - step instructions for all IPP capabilities ranging from creating and submitting an invoice to setting up email notifications. Live webinars are held monthly and provide a great opportunity to learn the basics of the system. Individuals within your company responsible for submitting invoices should review these materials upon receipt of this notification.

Additional Support

Phone support for IPP is available Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm ET: (866) 973-3131. The IPP Customer Support team is available during this time to provide user assistance and to answer any questions related to the IPP application. Questions about the IPP application can also be emailed to IPPCustomerSupport@fiscal.treasury.gov.

For answers to frequently asked questions, visit the Vendor FAQ page on the IPP.gov web site.

For call order-specific questions, please contact your CO at the number provided in your call order.