Emergency Management Consulting Services

The City of Tampa is seeking an experienced emergency management consultant to provide trained personnel to assist City personnel in trainings, exercises, after action reports, project management, and other onsite emergency management expertise and staffing in order to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. The consultant should have experience in programmatic emergency management for a municipality of equivalent size and complexity to the City of Tampa, and must have intimate knowledge and expertise in the operations of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), Incident Command System (ICS), Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP), FEMA Public Assistance Program, Hazard Mitigation Assistance, or other national, State of Florida or Hillsborough County emergency management requirements. The consultant will provide an initial scope of work and projected price to the City of Tampa within twenty-four (24) hours from the time the proposer arrives on site. Some of the key services that the consultant will provide include: * All Hazard Training and Exercises: design, facilitation, and evaluation of various emergency management training and exercise needs * Incident Management Team Staff Augmentation Support Services: provide trained personnel to support the City's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) * Emergency Planning Services: develop emergency management plans at the direction of City personnel * Emergency Management Grant Development and Management: develop applications for specific grants and manage and implement awarded grants The City of Tampa will evaluate proposals based on the following criteria: * Cost to the City (10 points) * Firm's Relevant Experience (30 points) * Qualifications of Project Team (20 points) * Responsiveness to the Scope of Services (20 points) * Proposer's Criminal History Screening Practices (5 points) * SLBE Participation (15 points)