Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Provide trained uniformed and/or non-uniformed professional armed security personnel and services within the City of Highland Park at various special, holiday, and third-party events at fixed and non-fixed locations throughout the 2023, 2024 and 2025 calendar years as needed. 2. Professional security service personnel will have a neat and professional uniform appearance. 3. Professional security service personnel will be trained in armed fixed and mobile security functions. 4. Professional security service personnel will be trained in emergency communications, de-escalation, reasonable response to aggression and resistance, duty to intervene, and first aid. 5. Professional security service personnel must have the ability to partner, effectively communicate, and work with City Police & Fire Department, Public Works, and City Manager’s Office staff. 6. Availability and use of professional security service marked vehicles at events are beneficial and desirable but not required. 7. Professional security service companies and their staff should be aware of, support, and practice the “Shared Principles of Public Safety” adopted by the City of Highland Park Police Department if awarded a contract to operate within the 4 City of Highland Park. See the following link: https://www.cityhpil.com/news_detail_T21_R259.php 8. Interested professional security service companies must be willing to bill the City per event providing a cost estimate of professional security services prior to the event. This includes detailed billing per staff member, per hour and any additional costs. 9. Interested professional security service companies must be willing to bill third party entities directly for their agreed upon services if the City requires professional security services to main public safety at well-attended non-City sponsored events or gatherings.
