Salt Lake Urban Search And Rescue Task Force

Salt Lake Urban Search And Rescue Task Force, a Utah-based non-profit organization operating as Salt Lake Urban Search & Res, delivers specialized urban search and rescue training and emergency response services to federal agencies as a prime contractor and federal grant recipient, competing exclusively in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations.

The Task Force's capability portfolio centers on rescue technician training across rope rescue, confined space rescue, trench rescue, structural collapse specialist certification, heavy vehicle extrication, swiftwater rescue technician qualification, and rescue squad officer development. Recent representative contract work includes a $9,000 firm fixed-price BPA call from the Utah Army National Guard for a CERFP-S & E-04 breaching and structural-access exercise (August 2024), a $5,236.40 hazardous materials response training delivery to the Utah Army National Guard (September 2023), and an $18,700 rope rescue and rescue technique training series (March 2023). The Task Force holds a single-award five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of the Army's Utah Army National Guard, valued at $250,000 with a performance period from February 23, 2023 through February 22, 2028, covering instruction sites in Draper and Magna, Utah.

The Task Force's customer base is tightly concentrated. The Department of the Army's Utah Army National Guard accounts for 17 awards and $1.2 million in combined potential value; the Department of the Army proper adds 6 awards and $357 thousand. The Federal Emergency Management Agency anchors the grant footprint with 11 project grants under CFDA 97.025 (National Urban Search and Rescue Response System), with the Task Force functioning as a prime recipient supporting one of 28 national US&R teams. Recent FEMA grant awards include a $1.514 million project grant recipient award for the period September 2024 through August 2027 and a prior-year grant covering September 2023 through August 2026, with funding supporting operational readiness, training exercises, vehicle and equipment procurement, storage, and maintenance.

Activity has contracted in recent years, declining from four awards in 2022 to one award in both 2025 and 2026. The vendor holds two BPA vehicles: the active five-year Army Utah National Guard BPA (W911YP23A0001) with 4 recent task orders totaling $34 thousand in combined potential value, and an earlier BPA (W911YP18A0001) with 12 task orders totaling $151 thousand. The source reports combined obligated dollars of $36 million against a combined potential value of $1.5 million, indicating substantial historical invoiced revenue. Work is categorized under All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction (NAICS, 18 awards) and Education/Training—Other (PSC, 8 awards). Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, with the primary Army BPA extending through February 2028 and FEMA grant funding running through August 2028.