Vigilant Guard

The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to provide realism and training value to the Massachusetts National Guard - Vigilant Guard MA.

Vigilant Guard (VG) is an exercise program sponsored by United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) in conjunction with National Guard Bureau (NGB). The mission of Vigilant Guard is "to give states the most realistic civil support/defense support to civil authorities exercise possible, by exercising all aspects of response and recovery." The focus of VG is Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ) coordination with State Emergency Management and Joint Task Force (JTF) in a regional response to an all-hazards event. VGs are normally conducted every quarter by a different NG State and usually include exercising elements of the National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (CRE). The CRE includes Weapons of Mass Destruction - Civil Support Team (WMD-CST), CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Packages (CERFP/CBRN TF) and National Guard Homeland Response Forces (HRF). During a VG, multiple training sites and scenarios are developed to create venues, which provide strategic and tactical skills challenges of such complexity that repetitiveness does not breed familiarity with the training props and/or lanes. A Structure Collapse Venue Site (SCVS) is a location where one or more Structure Collapse Simulators (SCS) are used to simulate the collapsed state of buildings due to a natural disaster or a domestic terrorism event. The use of role players, moulage and mannequins at exercise venues adds to the realism and training value of the exercise and creates realistic conditions and environments so individuals gain valuable experience and expertise working on a simulated "real world" structure collapse.

This award is a sole source to a HubZone in order to meet mandated socio-economic goals and based on market reasearch, the Government did not anticipate receipt of two or more responsible HubZone vendors. All of this is in accordance with FAR Part 19.1306.

. Awarded Vendors: Human Doman Solutions. Contract Award Dollar Amount: $319,989.75. Contract Award Date: 2018-09-27.