Montgomery County, Maryland is seeking responses to its Request for Proposals (RFP) from firms experienced in homeland security and emergency management services and support to include but not limited to: planning, exercises, training, project and financial management, and community outreach. The County plans to select up to five successful offerors to provide homeland security and emergency management planning and support services. 

Services required will consist of providing professional and support staff to assist the Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for a wide variety of emergency management and homeland security services and support. Contractor must be capable of explaining, defending and justifying the various aspects and conclusions of a project before senior management, elected officials, regulatory agencies, technical experts, the general public and different types of media, as directed.
Contractor will be required to effectively manage the work and complete the project in a timely and cost effective manner. Contractor must develop a general work plan in conjunction with OEMHS, and will regularly track progress and update OEMHS as required for the duration of the project.

(a) Development of response capability and readiness plans, and associated materials
(b) Development and execution of various planning and exercises