EverGreen COOP - Continuity of Operations

Total Business Continuity Solutions

EverGreen COOP

Continuity of Operations Plans

Continuity of Operations Preparedness

EverGreen COOP is a comprehensive Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) solution to satisfy FEMA’s requirements for NSPD-51/HSPD-20, the NCPIP, Federal Continuity Directive 1 (FCD 1), and Continuity Guidance Circular 1 (CGC 1).

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EverGreen COOP provides Continuity Plans for federal, state, and local governments

Federal, state, and local governments including police, fire, emergency management, medical response, elected officials and others are the safety cornerstone for our communities before, during, and after any crisis situation. These organizations are required by FEMA’s National Incident Management System-NIMS to have contact lists, BC/DR - COOP plans, pandemic plans, disaster supplies, asset lists, incident procedures, shared resources and more. The creation, management and sharing of this information is a formidable task to ensure its availability, accuracy, and timeliness during a crisis. The goal is to provide a seamless approach to prepare-mitigate, prevent, respond to, and recover from events regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity in order to reduce loss of life, property, and environmental impact.

EverGreen COOP is based on EverGreen’s award winning Mitigator business continuity software that was ranked by Gartner in the top tier of enterprise business continuity management solutions. Mitigator leads the industry with affordable, unlimited plan building capability that supports data loading, vulnerability analysis, multi-location team plans, test scenarios, SharePoint document management capability and incident management.

EverGreen is a recipient of FEMA’s Region 1 Outstanding Partner Award. EverGreen solutions are used by federal and state agencies, financial, healthcare, K1-12 and higher education organizations. EverGreen’s competitive advantage is our ability to support a comprehensive continuity plan management system for multi-agency organizations.

EverGreen COOP is a database driven solution that assists with resource matrix analysis to enable decision support for each incident Phase :

Phase I – Readiness and Preparedness: Vulnerability analysis and response and recovery strategies are developed.

Phase II – Activation and Relocation: plans, procedures, and schedules to transfer activities, personnel, records, and equipment to alternate facilities when activated.

Phase III – Continuity Operations: full execution of essential operations at alternate operating facilities are planned and tested.

Phase IV – Reconstitution: operations at alternate facility are terminated and normal operations resumed.

EverGreen COOP Functions – a subset of government and other organizational functions that are determined to be critical activities used to identify supporting tasks and resources are included in each agency’s and organization’s continuity planning process. They include;

Orders of Succession – essential part of an agency’s and organization’s continuity plan to ensure that agency and organizational personnel know who assumes the authority and responsibility of the agency’s and organization’s leadership if that leadership is incapacitated or becomes otherwise unavailable during a continuity situation.

Delegations of Authority – establish who has the right to make key decisions during a continuity situation.

Continuity Facilities – alternate facilities from which an agency and organization can perform its Essential Functions in a threat-free environment.

Continuity Communications – the availability and redundancy of critical communications systems to support connectivity to internal and external organizations, customers, and the public is vital to the success of agency and organization operations.

Vital Records Management – the identification, protection and ready availability of electronic and hard copy documents, references, records, information systems, data management software and equipment needed to support essential functions during a continuity situation.

Human Capital – provides guidance to emergency employees and other special categories of employees who are activated by an agency and organization to perform assigned response duties during a continuity event.

Tests, Training, and Exercises (TT&E) – provisions made for the identification, training, and preparedness of personnel capable of relocating to alternate facilities to support the continuation of the performance of essential functions.

Devolution of Control and Direction – capability to transfer statutory authority and responsibility for essential functions from an agency’s and organization’s primary operating staff and facilities to other agency and organization employees and facilities, and to sustain that operational capability for an extended period.

Reconstitution – the process by which surviving and/or replacement agency and organizational personnel resume normal agency operations from the original or replacement primary operating facility.

Contact Us to learn more on how we can help improve your community or organizations operational resiliency, and learn how we recieved FEMA's Outstanding Partner Award by developing an innovative Community Resiliency Program.

EverGreen COOP is offered as either as a private SaaS or perpetual license. The SaaS version includes a high availability option where the COOP plan and all associated documents are managed in redundant data centers with multiple network access and immediate failover should a regional outage occur.

"Continuity planning is simply the good business practice of ensuring the execution of essential functions through all circumstances, and it is a fundamental responsibility of public and private entities responsible to their stakeholders." FEMA