Transport Canada Incident Management System Exercise Development and Delivery

Transport Canada (TC) is modernizing and standardizing its incident management capability across the department. One of the ways it is doing this is by implementing a standardized incident management methodology designed to enable effective, efficient, and interoperable response to any potential emergency events affecting Canada’s transportation system.The TC Emergency Preparedness branch is leading this modernization through building strong partnerships, creating good situational awareness, and using a systems approach to develop emergency management policies, processes and tools that align and support departmental and whole-of-community response activities. In collaboration with Transport Canada’s Multimodal Integrated Technical Training branch, the TC Emergency Preparedness branch is striving to ensure TC personnel receive the individual and collective Transport Canada Incident Management System (IMS) training required to perform their incident response duties, and to be able to provide surge capacity staffing to our emergency management partners. Exercises play an important role in ensuring that TC personnel are able to demonstrate an understanding of the concepts and practice their roles in a safe environment. The objective is to hire a Contractor to develop and deliver TC IMS discussion-based exercises, both in-person and virtually, for fiscal year 2022/2023 (April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023). These exercises will be conducted with TC personnel across Canada within the initial period of the contract, which will begin on the date of contract award and will end on March 31, 2023.