Advanced Threat Assessment and Threat Management Expert(s) for DoD Training

Washington Headquarters Service Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD), intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with Specialized Training Services, of San Diego, CA, to obtain contractor support for conducting advanced threat assessment and threat management training, which addresses the multiple types of evolving threats and offers a measured process based on scientific research for intervention tactics, threat mitigation, and countering insider threats. DoD personnel that support counter insider threat operations and/or threat management, require contract instructional services to conduct fourteen (14) hours of specialized advanced threat assessment and management training to develop the capability to recognize, collect, and analyze behavioral information in order to identify threat enhancing and mitigating characteristics to aide in determining the potential national security and/or violent threat that is posed. Training shall be presented at the Pentagon or within a 25 mile radius including but not limited to the Pentagon Library Conference Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Fort Belvoir area, etc. Specifically, this fourteen (14) hour block of training will highlight the threat assessment process and present a unique combination of domains: targeted violence warning signs/behaviors, historical mass murder cases, ideologically driven terrorist acts, public figure and prior sexual intimate stalking, current threat research, Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) instrument used in workplace violence situations such as the Workplace Assessment of Violence Risk (WAVR-21), the "Dark Triad" of targeted violence and factual evidence related to mental illness and violence risk. Additionally, the training will introduce general best business practices for approaching threatening situations and describe contemporary risk intervention and management strategies. Specialized Training Services is the only vendor identified by the creators of WAVR-21 to facilitate the training. Additionally, they are the only company that publishes WAVR-21 manuals. Specialized Training Serves coordinates with the subject matter experts, in this case the creators of the process, to provide the training. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation package is available. However, firms that believe they can provide equipment that fully meets the Government's requirements may submit substantiating documentation in writing to the identified point of contact within 15 days after publication of this synopsis. A determination by the Government not to conduct a competitive procurement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.