This Request for Proposals (hereinafter “RFP” or “Solicitation”) is being issued by Department of Emergency Management (hereinafter, “DEM” or “City”) through the Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI). DEM is seeking qualified suppliers (“Proposers”) to provide proposals (“Proposal”) to design, market, deliver, and evaluate annual multi-day Public Safety Preparedness Summits. DEM shall order goods and/or services covered by the awarded contract(s) through the issuance of individual Purchase Orders and/or Task Orders which shall be released against the awarded contract(s) during the contract term. The City and County of San Francisco's local policy dictates that the procurement of trainings of a non-customized or off-the-shelf training services, shall result in a purchase order agreement, while customized trainings shall result in a full P-600 (professional service) contract. Therefore, depending on the needs of the City and the resulting statement of work negotiated with any selected vendor, the resulting contract(s) from this RFP may be either multi-year purchase order or multi-year P-600 contract.
