Request for Quotes - Armored Vehicle Drivers Training (AVDT)

This is a combined synopsis solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6 Streamlined Procedures and FAR 13.5, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Quotes are being requested and the Government will award a firm fixed price contract with Optional Services.

USAID/SEC is continuously evolving their countermeasures to mitigate global threats of criminal and terrorist activities that endanger USAID personnel overseas. SEC provides USAID Missions with Armored Vehicles (AVs) to enhance safety and security. The operation of these specialized vehicles is a life safety issue, and providing anti-terrorism defensive drivers training is one countermeasure provided to mitigate vulnerabilities to USAID Missions and personnel.

SEC has made it their standard to conduct annual training for Local Employees (LE) drivers to ensure AV operators have unique skills in AV performance needed to protect USAID personnel, including the ability to identify threats and drive defensively. To meet the urgent and compelling needs of USAID Missions to have sufficiently trained security drivers, USAID/SEC must provide this AV Drivers Training (AVDT) Course now and in the future.

The contractor shall provide USAID, Office of Security, International Security Programs (USAID/SEC/ISP) with multiple tactical evasive AVDT Courses, with a duration not to exceed eight days each, to achieve at least fifty (50) – sixty (60) students throughput in fiscal year 2025. The contractor must be able to train individuals from foreign countries with limited proficiency of the English language.

The contractor must use AVs, improved and unimproved driving surfaces, and an off-road course as part of their curriculum as well as Tactical First Aid instruction. The contractor's training location must be within 200 miles radius of the Ronald Reagan Building (1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW/ Washington, D.C. 20004) to accommodate DC based travel.