This is a $149,950.80 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Transportation to Earth Science Systems LLC, a small business located in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The contract is for Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which supports research and development of innovative technologies to address transportation challenges. The original solicitation invited U.S. small businesses to submit proposals across various topics including automated railroad...
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a $468,625.08 firm fixed-price contract to Earth Science Systems LLC, a small business located in Colorado, to build and demonstrate non-destructive methods for assessing railroad ballast condition and the connection between ballast condition, moisture content, and ballast strength. The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2019 and was not set aside for any special categories of businesses. Earth Science Systems LLC has prior...
The Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded a $147,664.57 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Transtek International Group LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for research related to transportation challenges. This contract was set aside for small businesses. The original SBIR solicitation invited proposals from U.S. small businesses with less than 500 employees to address topics across six DOT agencies, including automated railroad inspection, secure data...
This is a $114,174 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract award from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to Esensors Inc., a small business located in Snyder, New York. The contract was awarded under Topic No. 190-FR2 of the DOT's Fiscal Year 2019 SBIR program solicitation, which invited proposals from U.S. small businesses for innovative research addressing transportation challenges across several DOT agencies. The original solicitation was open to all small...
This definitive contract awarded by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to Innerspec Technologies, Inc. is valued at $987,015 to deliver research under the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II solicitation topic addressing non-destructive fracture toughness assessment of steel pipelines. The research focuses on developing technologies for analyzing acoustic wheel/rail contact signals and drone-based track inspection systems, among other topics supporting DOT subagencies. The...
This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to Paulsson, Inc., a small business focused on the development of fiber optic sensors and monitoring technologies. The $156,499.79 contract is for research on "Geohazard Identification and Quantification for Pipeline Risk Models" under the DOT's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. This topic was part of the DOT's FY2020 SBIR Phase I solicitation, which invited small businesses to...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to Physical Optics Corporation, a division of Mercury Systems Inc. The $149,992.20 fixed-price contract is for research and development under Topic No. 190-FM1, as part of DOT's FY 2019 SBIR program. The research is focused on developing innovative solutions for transportation challenges, such as automated railroad inspection, secure data sharing for motor carriers, and...
This is a $199,378.29 firm-fixed-price Purchase Order under the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, awarded to The Sensor Group LLC (TSG), a woman-owned small business. The award is for a SBIR Phase I research project on a "Portable Special Trackwork Measurement System" under U.S. DOT Topic 24-FR1. The contract is set aside for total small businesses and has a final completion date of February 21, 2025. As part of the SBIR...
This is a $195,488.58 definitive contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to Earth Science Systems LLC, a for-profit limited liability company located in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The contract is for a short-term project to implement design improvements to ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology in order to improve signal fidelity and conduct additional field testing to further refine the neural network capabilities for rail infrastructure inspection. This follows prior...
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded a $150,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Aware Vehicles, Inc., a small business, for research on "High-Spatial and Hyperspectral-Resolution Imaging for Bridge Inspection" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. This contract was set aside for total small business participation. The research topic is part of DOT's FY 2018 SBIR Phase I solicitation, which sought innovative proposals from small...