This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration, a civilian agency, to Fulcrum Corporation, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $147,236.94, is for a program evaluation of autonomous track geometry measurement systems. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Based on the agency and contract description, this work appears to support the Federal Railroad Administration's efforts to assess...
This is a $445,550.00 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. The objective of this contract is to develop a method for increasing the reliability of ultrasonic inspections of rail heads through the use of Phased Array (PA) ultrasonic systems and novel flaw characterization algorithms. To achieve this, the contractor will formulate virtual inspections...
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 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Redstone Technologies LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for $279,464.71. The contract is for research initiatives in support of rail safety, specifically focused on understanding railroad trespassing social and community factors based on trespassing behavioral data. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 11, 2026 and was awarded on August...
This is a $887,108.34 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Andro Computational Solutions LLC, a small business engineering research and development (R&D) firm. The contract is for the development of physical layer authentication (PTC) technologies. It is not a set-aside award. Andro is an experienced government contractor, having secured numerous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology...
<p>This is a $872,061.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Rhomberg Sersa USA Inc. for improvements to and support of a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system deployed on the DOTX 220 vehicle. The contract has an ultimate completion date of September 8, 2025 and was awarded on September 9, 2022. The contract is not associated with a set-aside or larger contracting vehicle.</p>
This federal contract award from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Systemes Pavemetrics Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer, involves the deployment of Pavemetrics' LRAIL 3D laser triangulation technology for automated rail inspection. The $258,486 firm-fixed-price contract will include field data collection, algorithm development and testing, and performance reporting compared to manual ground truth. There is no set-aside designation for this contract,...
This federal contract award to Dfuzion, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, provides for the purchase of eight annual maintenance plans for Dfuzion's RMETRIX-A units and one annual maintenance plan for a RMETRIX unit. These units are used by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to supplement safety inspectors' manual track inspections with automated monitoring capabilities. The $108,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order has an ultimate completion date of September 10,...
The Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $249,642 firm fixed price contract to Systemes Pavemetrics Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer of transportation infrastructure inspection systems, for "Extended Field Trialing of LRAIL for Automated Track Change Detection." This contract is a continuation of previous R&D work and aims to further develop and test automated change detection technology to support the FRA's mission of ensuring safe...
This federal contract, awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, provides funding for research and development of a non-track circuit detection system to assess train presence, speed, and direction in multi-track corridors. The system is intended to communicate with sensors at highway-rail grade crossings and adjacent traffic intersection controllers. The definitive, firm-fixed-price contract has a ceiling value of $169,404.91 and an ultimate completion date of...