DHS RFI: Student Innovation Lab Support Services for the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3)

Notice ID:  70RDA224RFI000002

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Procurement Operations (OPO) intends to issue a solicitation and subsequently award a task order for Student Innovation Lab Support Services in support of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3).

The United States remains in a heightened threat environment from targeted violence and terrorism, and several recent attacks have highlighted the dynamic and complex nature of the threat. As the DHS lead for targeted violence and terrorism prevention, the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (“CP3”) helps communities prevent targeted violence and terrorism and build a safer America. To achieve that goal, CP3 develops partnerships across every level of government, the private sector, and in local communities across our country to provide funding, training, educational resources, and to increase awareness. The Student Innovation Lab is an experiential program that challenges high school and university students to create and implement peer-developed products, tools, and initiatives to prevent targeted violence, hate-fueled violence, and terrorism. The program allows essential prevention work to happen at the state and local level with the goal of reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors within youth populations. Through the Student Innovation Lab program, student teams design, implement, and measure the success of a social and digital product, tool, or initiative with a strong call to action to prevent targeted violence and terrorism. These projects are designed in a local context to ensure they are locally relevant, and teams leverage local partnerships to amplify their projects and ensure long-term sustainability and impact.

Contractor deliverables will revolve around supporting CP3’s student awareness program:

1. Design and Implement Student Innovation Lab Program
2. Communications and Marketing Plan Development
3. Administrative Support, Meeting and Event Coordination
4. Measuring Program Impact
5. Program Management and Reporting

DHS CP3 will sponsor a scholastic initiative centered on the establishment of semester-long or school year long innovation laboratories to drive innovation and the creation of targeted violence and terrorism prevention programs at the state and local level among a key cohort—youth and young adults.  Within high schools, colleges, universities and other academic institutions, each innovation lab will be student-run and must include a semester-length learning curriculum centered on targeted violence and terrorism, its impact on civil society, its intersection with digital tools and platforms, and effective public health-informed strategies to prevent the spread of terrorism and targeted violence using online campaigns or tools.  Each lab product/creation or output shall be provided to DHS CP3 for review, study and implementation of best practices or separate programs …

Anticipated Period of Performance: 07/30/2024 through 07/29/2029

The solicitation listed the incumbent, under the GSA OASIS vehicle, is Credence Management Solutions Limited Liability Company, contract number 47QRAD20DU108. The Period of Performance is 09/30/2020 to 03/29/2024 with a total value of over $10M

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