The Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency has a continuing requirement for resource and capability transportation support during disasters.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has the responsibility of supporting the disaster response and recovery efforts for the severely impacted United States territories of American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marina Islands. Past major hurricanes have brought unprecedented damages intensifying the response and recovery effort challenges that affected FEMA’s response to survivors located throughout the islands, specifically to those secluded areas like the mountain and inland regions. Accessibility issues due to damaged transportation infrastructure has survivors waiting longer periods of time to receive life sustaining supplies.

A major part of the response and recovery effort revolves around supplying the affected area with Initial Response Resources (IRR). These include life supporting and life sustaining IRRs such as but not limited to water, meals, cots, tarps, plastic sheeting, blankets, sandbags, generators, and fuel which are needed to lessen damage before or after a disaster. FEMA has limited readiness on these islands due to the deficiency in warehousing space and minimum full time FEMA/CORE personnel in American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marina Islands to support the magnitude of this response. FEMA is also tasked with the movement of Inter-agency resources and support functions into the affected areas to support critical needs such as infrastructure, electricity, and sewage repairs; provide medical requirements and services; and bring basic human needs like water and meals to those in need.

• FEMA has determined that a full suite of transportation services such as air, maritime, and ground transportation (including point of origin at both air/seaports to destination) is key to fulfill the requirement.  In addition, warehousing services, essential equipment, and all necessary labor to fulfill such transportation services, are needed to successfully complete FEMA’s mission.  This includes but is not limited to:
  • 20-foot and 40-foot containers, 53-foot trailers and chassis, specialized trailers (e.g. flatbeds, lowboys, refrigerated)
  • container/material handling equipment
  • specialized trucks (e.g. box trucks, 20 ft. pups and lift gates)
  • drayage services and a robust cross-docking operation
  • staging yards and storage
  • Continuous sailing/shipping without interruption except for US Coast Guard restrictions on sailing vessels due to hazardous weather
  • Operations for 24-hours a day, 7-days a week with all necessary contractor labor and supervision
  • Asset tracking and management
• The contractor shall have resources, equipment, and crew available to perform 24 hours, seven days a week operation. The Contractor must have the capability within their network to meet the demand and respond to the movement of approximately 4,000 containers, on monthly basis; with enough chassis for to support the continuous service required and meet the minimum expected level of effort defined herein. The contractor shall also have the capacity for the movement of vehicles, utility poles and other assets not containerized.
• The Contractor shall be fully functional within 48 hours of the start date of this contract to ensure minimum disruption to Government business.  The Contractor shall have the capacity to cross-dock 100 containers within 24-hours of award and reach and sustain an average of 300 containers daily.