North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 14B - Public Safety
Chapter 03 - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Section .0500 - NORTH CAROLINA HAZARDOUS MATERIAL REGIONAL RESPONSE PROGRAM
Section 03 .0507 - PROCEDURES FOR BIDDING AND CONTRACTING FOR REGIONAL RESPONSE TEAM
Universal Citation: 14B NC Admin Code 03 .0507
Current through Register Vol. 38, No. 18, March 15, 2024
(a) Eligibility for participation as a Sponsoring Agency as a regional response team:
(1) be a local unit of government,
tribal government, with an active response agreement with a local or tribal
unit of government;
(2) maintain
participation in the statewide mutual aid agreement; and
(3) ensure all personnel possess the
qualifications as outlined in Rule .0509 of this Section.
(b) Regional response teams - Within 18 months of a new contract period, NCEM shall distribute a bid announcement to all program resources and local emergency management coordinators for interested parties to return a letter of interest. NCEM shall distribute a bid package to all interested parties that shall be returned to NCEM.
(1) Regional response teams shall be limited
to seven regionally based teams. Each team will be assigned a primary response
region in the state.
(2) The
bidding agency agencies shall be in that specified response region.
(3) The NCEM Director or designee shall
establish a review committee. This committee will open all completed sealed bid
packages and evaluate them based on the criteria outlined in Rule .0508 of this
Section at a date to be set by the NCEM Director or designee.
(4) The committee shall develop a bid package
review summary that includes their recommendations for selections that will be
sent to the NCEM Operations Chief for concurrence before being reviewed and
approved by the NCEM Director.
(5)
Agencies that are successful in the bid process will be notified and program
agreements shall be drafted and executed.
(6) NCEM shall draft, execute, and maintain a
program agreement with the Sponsoring Agency for the program resource to
maintain participation in the program.
(A)
NCEM shall execute and maintain a program agreement with the Sponsoring Agency
that outlines the scope of work that the team shall follow to enable
reimbursement of eligible training, equipment, administrative, and personnel
costs associated with maintaining and deploying a regional response team. The
program agreement shall be limited to the four-year contract period with an
optional one-year extension.
(B)
Funds reimbursed through this agreement shall go directly to cover program
costs and be utilized by the Sponsoring Agency for the purposes of this
program.
(C) The Sponsoring Agency
shall maintain all records of any program spending and shall not comingle funds
or use program funding for any other purpose other than for the purposes of
this program.
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