Specifications include, but are not limited to: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Peralta Community College District (“District”) is requesting qualified persons, firms, partnerships, corporations, associations, or professional organizations to provide Security and Safety Consulting services for Peralta Community College District (PCCD). The District is asking experienced and proven firms to submit their qualifications and proposals to provide Safety and Security Consulting services for the District’s Community Based Safety Services. The Peralta Community College (the “District”), which includes Laney College in downtown Oakland, Berkeley City College in downtown Berkeley, Merritt College in the Oakland Hills, and College of Alameda on Alameda Island and the District Administrative offices located across the street from Laney College, seeks an experienced safety and security service provider (a “provider”) to assist the District in ensuring that its campuses and facilities are safe, secure and welcoming and create a non-lethal safety and security team eliminating or reducing the need to engage traditional policing services. The desired provider will have a demonstrated ability promoting safety in informed, strategic and non-threatening ways, securing facilities and outdoor spaces, issue-spotting and earning the trust of the communities they serve. The selected provider and their assigned personnel will need to engage in a professional, productive and supportive manner with the district’s students, faculty, staff, and administration and surrounding communities in compliance with applicable state and federal law. The personnel assigned by the provider to work with the district must be trained in de-escalation techniques, restorative justice principles, community engagement, and working with sensitive populations – such as with unhoused individuals or individuals experiencing a drug or mental health crisis. In addition, the provider, and its assigned personnel, must possess a deep understanding of communities of color and other communities that have experienced the de-humanizing effects of institutional racism, oppression, and/or willful neglect that may influence or impact interactions with security/safety officers and possess multiple techniques for appropriately engaging with these communities. Security and safety services must be provided using an approach that prioritizes not only safety, but also engagement, respect and non-violence.
