Specifications include, but are not limited to: East‐West Gateway Council of Governments (the Council) and the St. Louis Area Regional Response System (STARRS ) is seeking assistance to support a focused regional exercise project. The St. Louis Region (Region), as it pertains to this solicitation, includes the Missouri Counties of Franklin, Jefferson, St. Charles, and St. Louis, and the independent City of St. Louis, and the Illinois Counties of Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair. The basis of the project is the Family Assistance Center and Disaster Victim Identification Appendix of the St. Louis Bi‐State Region Mass Fatality Resource Coordination Plan, which was developed as part of the FY 2016 Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks (CCTA) grant program awarded to the Council by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS/FEMA). This regional exercise project will be funded through the FY 2021 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program awarded to the Council by DHS/FEMA. The project focus is to exercise the Family Assistance Center and Disaster Victim Identification Appendix of the St. Louis Bi‐State Region Mass Fatality Resource Coordination Plan through scenario‐based tabletop exercises and a full‐scale mass casualty incident exercise. The scenarios provide for real world problem solving among peers in a low risk, controlled environment. This approach has been shown to build stakeholder engagement and ownership from the first meeting and builds with each milestone.