Support Services for Advancement of National Incident Management System

This is a Notice of Intent to award a non-competitive contract to the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), 4025 Fair Ridge Drive # 300, Fairfax, VA 22033.  The contractor will provide support by developing resource databases, tackling legislative issues, credentialing, selecting communication and resource tracking tools and demonstrating the effect utilization of system support tools for advancement of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) through the deployment of the fire mutual aid systems within States across the country.  This support will help States become more capable of providing timely assistance to affected jurisdictions; thereby reducing the reliance on FEMA and other Federal Departments and Agencies for support (e.g., disaster funds, resources, etc.). Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) determined that IAFC is very uniquely qualified to perform this work.  

Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to provide these services via e-mail to Monique Matthews, no later than 3:00 PM, EST, Thursday, September 22, 2011.  E-mail address:  monique.matthews@fema.dhs.gov.  Capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis.  A determination not to compete this proposed procurement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.  This Notice of Intent is NOT a Request for Proposal (RFP) for competitive proposals.