Peer Intervention Lethal Means Safety III AC
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- W91151-23-Q-0064
- Agency
- MICC Fort Hood Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 611699 All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction
- PSC
- U099 Education/Training- Other
- Place of performance
- Fort Cavazos, Texas 76544, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This solicitation issued by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Mission and Installation Contracting Command Fort Hood seeks peer intervention training services focused on firearms and lethal means safety for Soldiers at Forts Cavazos, Bliss, and Carson. The contractor must deliver didactic, interactive, and multimedia training materials featuring current or former military members' firearm access experiences during suicide risk, and instructors knowledgeable in lethal means safety, firearms safe storage, crisis intervention, and proactive safety models. Training frequency will coincide with organizational availability across the forts. The contractor must assess training acceptability, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior changes through pre/post/follow-up surveys, with the deadline for proposals on September 5, 2023.
There is no set-aside designated for this procurement. The NAICS code is 611710 and PSC code is U099. No incumbent or current contractor is identified. The place of performance will be at Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas, with training delivery required at Forts Cavazos, Bliss, and Carson to coincide with organizational availability, and the government will provide workspace and audiovisual support at the training locations.
Notice text
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Update #2 · Latest ·
**This revision includes answers from the Government to questions Industry asked in response to the solicitation. Please see the attachment titled "Government Response (Peer Intervention)" for the Government's answers to questions asked. In the spreadsheet the Government's response is in column G.**
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. Notice to offerors: please ensure you comply with addendum to FAR 52.212-1 (begins on page 59) when submitting your offer. The Government will accept clarifications for 7 calendar days after the posting of this solicitation.
The military’s suicide prevention approach as one that is (though well-intended), over reliant on mental illness models, ‘warning signs,’ screening, and forms and paperwork. Conversely, a public health approach proposes that the most effective way to prevent illness, injury, and mortality involves strategies that focus on the hazardous condition itself. In the US Military that hazard is the firearm where suicide deaths involve firearms 67% of the time – grossly disproportionate from the civilian community. Suicide experts unequivocally agree that the one place where there is decided scientific
agreement is putting time and distance between a person in crisis and the potential means of their suicide – this is lethal means reduction. Strategically, lethal means reduction is our most powerful suicide prevention approach, but its use is not widespread for several reasons. That the intended audience (including our leaders) is not buying it is a massive communication problem across our ranks. We must improve in this area by bringing the conversation about suicide risk and firearms into an area of trust – our Soldiers’ relationships with their peers and leaders. Research demonstrates that lethal means reduction is effective and translatable with military members when the right message is delivered by the right messenger. To that end, we must endeavor to achieve the support peer to peer intervention models that inspire action with their buddies in crisis, asking to temporarily hold onto their weapons or take protective storage measures –before it’s too late. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform Peer Intervention Training on Firearms and Lethal Means Safety.
Update #1 ·
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. Notice to offerors: please ensure you comply with addendum to FAR 52.212-1 (begins on page 59) when submitting your offer. The Government will accept clarifications for 7 calendar days after the posting of this solicitation.
The military’s suicide prevention approach as one that is (though well-intended), over reliant on mental illness models, ‘warning signs,’ screening, and forms and paperwork. Conversely, a public health approach proposes that the most effective way to prevent illness, injury, and mortality involves strategies that focus on the hazardous condition itself. In the US Military that hazard is the firearm where suicide deaths involve firearms 67% of the time – grossly disproportionate from the civilian community. Suicide experts unequivocally agree that the one place where there is decided scientific
agreement is putting time and distance between a person in crisis and the potential means of their suicide – this is lethal means reduction. Strategically, lethal means reduction is our most powerful suicide prevention approach, but its use is not widespread for several reasons. That the intended audience (including our leaders) is not buying it is a massive communication problem across our ranks. We must improve in this area by bringing the conversation about suicide risk and firearms into an area of trust – our Soldiers’ relationships with their peers and leaders. Research demonstrates that lethal means reduction is effective and translatable with military members when the right message is delivered by the right messenger. To that end, we must endeavor to achieve the support peer to peer intervention models that inspire action with their buddies in crisis, asking to temporarily hold onto their weapons or take protective storage measures –before it’s too late. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform Peer Intervention Training on Firearms and Lethal Means Safety.
Attachments
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Government Response (Peer Intervention).xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| W91151-23-Q-0064 v1.5.pdf |
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