In the wake of the tragic events in Haiti, a number of IPOA’s member companies are available and prepared to provide a wide variety of critical relief services to the earthquake’s victims. If you would like more information about IPOA and its member companies, you can read more here.

Below is a list of companies with services readily available for use, and more will be added soon.

Agility

Key services available: A tailored supply chain management services to assist U.S. Government, United Nations and international development community to support the Haiti relief and recovery efforts.  Extensive in-country network to expedite deliveries to Port au Prince, utilizing warehousing capabilities in Dominican Republic and Haiti, as well as local trucking solutions. Agility's own 120,000 sq ft warehouse in Miami for cargo consolidation and optimized air and sea freight solutions from Miami, FL to Haiti directly or via Dominican Republic.

Contact: Thomas Shortley

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Phone: +1 571 309 6060
Website: www.agilitylogistics.com

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Bibiana Popal
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Phone: +1 571 366 0693

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

Agility is an end-to-end supply chain solution provider with 37,000 employees operating from over 550 offices in 120 countries worldwide. The company has a proven record of success in humanitarian and stability operations support, and their team of experienced logisticians is prepared to operate in the most challenging environments. Agility currently supplies food rations to the UN Peacekeeping troops in Somalia, with performance evaluations above 95%. Agility transported more than 3,000 containers and 400 Armored.Personal Carriers (APC) and other vehicles for DPKO in 2008 and 2009.

AMECO

Key services available: Construction equipment, vehicles, small tools and shelters.

Contact: Paul Camp

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Phone: +1 864 350 1660
Website: www.ameco.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

Three 46X66’s Threat Resistant Air Beam Shelters are in stock and can be on a plane immediately if requests are made.

Critical Mission Support Services (CMSS)

Key services available: Life support, medical, communications, construction, security, rapid housing structures and vehicle maintenance.

Contact: Terry Collins

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Phone: +1 865 806 5381
Website: gocmss.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

CMSS has been providing critical support services for contingency operations in post and active conflict zones and disaster relief for over three years. They have conducted operations as a prime contractor and sub-contractor in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Gaza, Cyprus, Greece and Jordan. They have the ability to rapidly mobilize personnel, equipment and materials to any location; to travel and communicate securely without assistance from the client; and to house, feed and support our their operations independently if needed. They provide Victim Assistance and Community Relations experts with all operations.

CMSS understands that humanitarian efforts need to rapidly provide medical and education resources to internally displaced persons (IDPs) to prevent additional trauma.They have worked with, can provide resources to and especially assist those persons most at risk, the elderly, women and children, from additional harm.

EOD Technology, Inc.

Key services available: Security, expeditionary IT/Comms, modular housing and life support.

Contact: Bill Pearse

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Phone: +1 865 310 9267
Website: www.eodt.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

EODT provides logistics, telecoms, construction and medical and life support services in support of its own programs worldwide. It provided extensive support in the wake of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike on the Texas coast. EODT has a number of personnel on staff with contacts and prior experience in Haiti, most of whom speak French/Creole. EODT personnel are also licensed to carry weapons in Haiti.

Exploration Logistics Group PLC

Key services available: Medical Personnel, project and clinic support, medical supplies and equipment, fully equipped clinic buildings & contents, medical kit templates, medical audits and health promotions, training and evacuation planning, detection dogs, explosive ordnance disposal, HSE personnel and audits and mountaineering support.

Contact: Jonny Norman

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Phone: +44 159 454 5100 or +44 (0) 7710 391 707
Website: www.exlogs.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

Exploration Logistics specializes in the provision of medical and safety solutions for hazardous environments. With 23 years international experience, they have a broad client base of major international commercial and humanitarian organizations. Exploration Logistics Group brings together the experience, equipment and an extensive resource of over 1200 trained, specialist field professionals to manage and deal with any medical or safety challenge.  For more information visit www.exlogs.com

GardaWorld

Key services available: Project security risk management and mitigation services, with a particular focus on assisting NGO operations and working alongside local communities. Areas of our assistance include infrastructure development risk analysis, stakeholder mapping, incident prevention planning, guard training, risk monitoring & on-going protection of assets and personnel.

Contact: Nick Copeland, Managing Director (Latin America)

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Phone: +54 11 4711 8909 (Regional office)
Phone: + 1 703 539 5340 (US office)
Website: www.garda-world.com/ngos/

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

GardaWorld is the global risk group of Garda, the largest Canadian security & risk mitigation company, with offices & over 30 years of experience worldwide. GardaWorld is providing advice and assistance in Haiti to our global clients who include USAID implementers and international NGOs.

Global Operational Resources Group (GorGrp)

Key services available: Medical staff, medical supplies and equipment, medical clinics and temporary hospitals and Medevac/Casevac services.

Contact: F.C. Dahmer

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Phone: +1 832 283 3147
Website: www.gorgrp.com

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Dr. Keith Brown
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Phone: +1 402 640 1456

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

GorGrp has extensive experience working in remote and hazardous locations worldwide. They have the ability to deploy personnel and equipment immediately as a standalone package or as part of a larger effort. GorGrp personnel have been involved in several disasters that have occurred globally in the last several years. GorBrp will tailor a package to meet your specific needs.

Gold Coast Helicopters (GCH)

Key services available: Complete turn key aviation operations and service support services.

Flight Operations, GCH, a FAA Part 135 and 133 operator, has access to a fleet of Western and Russian helicopters for turn key operations flown by FAA certified pilots and maintained by certified mechanics. We are ready to assist anytime.

Airfield Management, experienced in establishing and operating an airfield under austere conditions. Includes pax services, aircraft servicing, cargo processing and tower operations, etc.

Quality Assurance Services, GCH has qualified and experience personnel available to provide quality oversight/inspection of any subcontracted air carriers/ operators. BEFORE contracting a carrier/operator call us and let us verify aircraft airworthiness, crew’s qualification and maintenance procedures.

Contact: William Tresky

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Phone: +1 623 935 3388 (office)
+1 623 640 6673 (mobile)
Website: www.goldcoasthelicopters.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

› Extensive rotary wing experience in austere and hostile environments
› Deployment – ready
› FAA certified

HART Security

Key services available: Security services including close protection of assets and personnel, evacuation support and planning and risk assessments and security reports.

Contact: Claire Kee

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Phone: +357 25 879682 (office)
+44 20 77510771 (24 hour line)
Website: www.hartsecurity.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

HART is currently operating in Haiti providing security services to the media.  HART has significant experience in performing crisis management and evacuation services, most notably evacuating numerous clients from Lebanon in 2006.  Hart offers security, manpower and risk management solutions in land, sea and air environments.

Medical Support Solutions

Key services available: Emergency clinics, medical staff, Medevac/Casevac, and medical equipment.

Contact: Raymond Uren

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Phone: +44 2380 812 700 (office)
+44 7979 526 836 (cell)
Website: www.medsupportsolutions.com

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Pieter De Weerdt
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Phone: +44 2380 812 700 (office)
+44 7742 052 712 (cell)

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

› Rapid deployment capabilities
› Extensive remote site medical services experience
› Extensive aero-medical experience

Mission Essential Personnel, LLC

Key services available: Linguists and intelligence support.

Contact: Alex Calfee

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Phone: +1 614 214-0575
Website: www.missionep.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

Mission Essential Personnel is a global professional services firm that provides the most accomplished operational support in the world. Their disciplines include training and advising, and world-wide mission support for language and culture, emerging markets, stability and reconstruction, specialized mission, and expeditionary operations. With over 5,000 people in 11 countries, MEP delivers certainty; one person at a time.

Overseas Lease Group

Key services available: Overseas Lease Group, Inc. is a vehicle, equipment, shelter and disaster camp leasing business. The company provides project financing and leasing solutions. OLG specializes in serving clients operating in disaster-inflicted regions, areas of conflict as well as post-conflict environments worldwide.

Contact: Tracy A. Badcock, VP Marketing & Communications

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Phone: +1 954 315 3862
Website: www.overseasleasegroup.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

After working with various humanitarian organizations and relief product suppliers, Overseas Lease Group (“OLG”) has developed a distinctive leasing package program that provides NGOs the ability to choose from vehicles, transitional shelters, hard wall shelters, water purification devices, generators, mobile hospitals, and disaster recovery camp kits within a comprehensive lease structure.  The program was designed to offer a menu of leasable assets needed to provide relief following a disaster.  The NGOs have the ability to procure expensive relief assets and pay for the combined cost of these goods on a monthly basis.  The packages may be based on 24 to 60 month lease terms depending on length of time that meets the NGOs specific requirements.

Overseas Security & Strategic Information, Inc.

Key services available: Personal Security Detail, close protection, static site security, project management, emergency medical personnel, rapid housing structures, and security and cultural sensitivity training.

Contact: Sean Walbridge

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Phone: +1 305 576 4288
Website: ossiinc.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

OSSI is a Veteran-Owned company with many years of experience providing support services to the U.S. government and international corporations throughout the world. Over the past nine years, OSSI has operated in high-risk and sensitive environments in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and South America. They have the ability to mobilize quickly and effectively, and to provide a range of tailored security and support services. Furthmore, OSSI has a history of being operationally responsible, sensitive to local custom, and working directly with local community and regional authorites to best achive their clients’ objectives.

Pax Mondial

Key services available: Camp construction and maintenance services, prefabricated accommodation and office units, remote medical clinics and medical training, security, emergency response planning and risk management.

Contact: Meg Cochran

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Phone: +1 940 231 1443
Website: www.paxmondial.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

Pax Mondial is able to provide a robust suite of support services for clients who require the installation of camp facilities in remote sites and humanitarian relief environments. Pax Mondial has strong past performance and outstanding reputation in the delivery of these services and a proven track record of completing best in-class work on time and at good value. Their camp solutions management team is accredited to international standards and they retain staff with specialist skill sets for all aspects of delivery, quality assurance and oversight. Pax Mondial’s prefabricated units can be deployed flat packed for installation anywhere in the world.

SkyLink Aviation

Key services available: SkyLink Aviation is one of the world’s leading providers of logistics services in austere environments. Since 1988, SkyLink has provided a full complement of aviation support ranging from passenger to heavy lift cargo, utilizing both fixed and rotary wing aircraft. SkyLink’s offices are located globally, with a focus in the Middle East.

Contact: Rima F. Saleh, VP Sales & Services

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Phone: +1 703 318 4003
+ 1 703 973 9801 (mobile)
Fax: +1 703 318 4018
Website: www.skylink-usa.net

SOS International, Ltd.

Key services available: Linguists and translation services.

Contact: Mark Burgess

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Phone: +1 703 774 1790
Website: wwwwww.sosiltd.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

SOS International has over 20 years experience providing interpreters and translators in demanding environments throughout the world. They also have extensive experience deploying Haitian Creole linguists and have the capacity to provide world class personnel on short notice.

Unity Resources Group

Key services available: URG currently has a deployed logistics, security and medical team in Port-au-Prince. They have extensive experience in operating in challenging, complex and unpredictable environments, and can provide the following services:

› Security and risk management
› Aviation services: fixed and rotary wing aviation support with defense aid suites and/or surveillance pods. Includes all related operations and maintenance
› Logistics and life support services: procurement, logistics and supply chain management.
› Camp management and full turnkey remote area life support options
› Infrastructure, including engineering and construction capabilities. Their past performance includes ammunition depots, complex camps and airfields › Medical services, remote area medical services including clinical support, preventative medical support and assessments, remote area medics & the provision of medical consumables.

Contact: Jim LeBlanc, Managing Director, The Americas

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Phone: +1 202 580 6525 (office)
+ 1 202 459 3353 (mobile)
Skype: jleblanc
Website: www.unityresourcesgroup.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

URG has deployed a Crisis Response and Facilitation Team (CRAFT) to support current and future clients operating in Haiti with an organic emergency medical capability, logistics and life support services, including procurement and supply chain management, aviation capability, as well as security and risk management services.

URS Corporation

Key services available:

› Time-sensitive disaster related construction and infrastructure restoration to include facilities, utilities, water and sanitation systems, electrical systems, natural gas and other energy systems, fences, site development.
› Architectural, engineering, and scientific services for response to, and recovery from, a major disaster or emergency.
› Hazard mitigation services to include economic, land management, planning, environmental and other issues associated with reducing the losses from all types of hazards.
› Clean up of land /areas containing hazardous waste contaminated soils, groundwater, or sediment.
› Individual housing assessments and repairs; decontamination and decommissioning. Logistics to include acquisition, distribution and storage of food stocks, medical supplies, consumables, and management of biological material.
› Mobile maintenance teams for aircraft; wheeled vehicles and mechanical equipment.
› Power services to include portable /mobile power and power distribution systems.

Contact: William J. Denk, Director, Business Development

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Phone: +1 703 418 3043 (office)
+1 571 438 2653 (cell)
Fax: +1 703 418 3022
Website: www.urscorp.com

Vertical de Aviación ltda.

Key services available: Flight Operations, Vertical de Aviacion operates a fleet of 14 Mi-8MTV helicopters, 2 Mi8T helicopters and 4 Jetstream 32 aircraft in various locations worldwide. At this moment we have a BAE Jetream 32 airplane and a Mi8T helicopter available, flown by an in-house cadre of experienced commercial pilots, most of whom have a vast military background.

As the only U.S. DoD-approved rotary-wing air carrier in South America, Vertical de Aviacion has been providing charter airlift service under contract to the U.S. military for over five years. The following is a list of government certifications:

U.S. Department of Defense, Air Mobility Command, Commercial Airlift Review Board (CARB) Certified DoD passenger air carrier
Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia, Certificate number No 12062

Contact: Fernando J. López, CEO

Phone: +1 305 962 7878
Fax: +1 305 592 1625
Website: www.verticaldeaviacion.com

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

› Rescue and recovery operations in areas affected by natural disasters
› Experiences includes that in Armeo, the earthquake in Armenia and the Canyon of the Páez River

WorldWide Shelters

Key services available: As a non-profit humanitarian shelter provider, Worldwide shelters offer all of their relief shelters at-cost to all qualifying implementing agencies, to enable more people with better shelter faster.

Contact: Jeff Jacoby

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Phone: +1 410 489 6915 (office) and +1 410 905 3171 (cell)
Website: www.worldwideshelters.org

Any special considerations or previous disaster response experience:

WorldWide Shelters has provided over 6,000 shelters in the past 12 months to support displaced individuals and families around the world.  The shelters are durable, easy to assemble and meet or exceed the international standards for humanitarian shelters.