Definitive Contract 693JJ626C000012
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- The Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $1.24 million definitive contract to Railroad Technology And Services LIMITED Liability Company, a women-owned small business, for development of a real-time rail bridge condition and rating system demonstration on May 21, 2026. The originating solicitation (693JJ626Q000005) sought design, estimation, testing, validation, and delivery of a Parametric Railway Line Capacity Model to replace the FRA's outdated 1975 capacity model. The contractor will...
- The Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $306,200 firm fixed-price definitive contract to Southern Methodist University for fusion of track measurement data into synchronized streams to enable unified spatial and temporal monitoring and targeted anomaly detection to improve track monitoring and maintenance, with award on June 15, 2026. Place of performance is Dallas, TX. The ultimate completion date is June 14, 2028. The contract integrates multiple track measurement modalities and...
- The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a purchase order contract to Railinc Corp on July 12, 2023, with a ceiling value of $1.31 million and an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2027. This firm fixed price contract supports the STB Waybill program, an annual sample of proprietary waybills for terminated rail shipments that the FRA and Surface Transportation Board require for regulatory oversight and analysis. The modification adds revised TAR (Technical Acquisition...
- This is a firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Southern Methodist University (SMU) for a research project focused on the rail industry. The $403,579 contract, which has a completion date of May 30, 2025, involves four main tasks: (1) a survey to collect information and identify gaps in general and technical understanding of the rail industry, (2) surveys of students participating in various levels of rail-related...
- <p>This is a federal contract award from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Bartlett & West, Inc., a for-profit S corporation. The contract, with a ceiling value of $94,000.00, is for updating the FRA National Railroad Network Model (NRNM). The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a completion date of July 11, 2020. There is no set-aside designation for this award.</p>
- <p>The Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $354,531.92 definitive cost plus fixed fee contract to Ensco Inc. to develop an artificial intelligence-based predictive model of rail failures due to internal defect growth to enhance proactive maintenance strategies. The contract will run from September 1, 2022 through March 5, 2024 and will be performed in North Springfield, Virginia.</p>
- The Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $2,582,163.91 delivery order contract to Deloitte Consulting LLP for professional data analyst services. Using the Professional Services Schedule, a multiple award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle, the FRA will obtain analysis and advisory support related to its passenger train control programs. No set-aside designation was applied. Performance will take place in Washington, D.C. through...
- This is a delivery order contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Sharma & Associates Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business headquartered in Hinsdale, Illinois. The $608,217.00 contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) effort to further refine a prototype safety risk model for the railroad industry. This model aims to characterize rail hazards in terms of frequency and consequence metrics,...
- This federal contract, awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Trainfo Corp, is for the development of an automated first responder dispatching system to avoid blocked rail crossings. The contract, valued at $199,550, is a definitive, firm-fixed-price contract with a completion date of March 11, 2024. The system will use third-party data and machine-learning algorithms to predict the time and duration of blocked rail crossings, and integrate this information...
- <p>The Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $275,262 firm fixed price definitive contract to Sharma & Associates Inc. of Hinsdale, Illinois to conduct a Phase I Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Study of the Longitudinal Contact Shift in 3D Wheel-Rail Contact. The contract period of performance runs from June 28, 2022 through November 6, 2023.</p>
The Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $744,000 definitive contract to Oliver Wyman, LLC for update and development of a parametric railroad capacity model on June 4, 2026, under firm fixed-price terms with no set-aside. The originating solicitation (693JJ626Q000005) calls for design, estimation, testing, validation, and delivery of model code and documentation to create a publicly available parametric model for railroad capacity analysis. The contractor will develop the model in R or Python with comprehensive documentation, establish methodological guidelines, validate using real-world operations data, and create detailed user guides and technical documentation. All development, testing, and delivery activities will occur in FRA-provided Azure or AWS tenants or DOT-authorized environments; contractor-hosted or third-party cloud services are prohibited. The Government retains unlimited rights to all deliverable code and will host the model on the FRA GitHub repository under an open-source license. Place of performance is Dallas, TX 75201. The contract runs for an 18-month base period with options to extend services up to an additional six months. Travel costs are reimbursable on a cost-reimbursable basis up to $10,000. Ultimate completion date is December 3, 2027.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Parametric Railway Line Capacity Modeling | 693JJ626Q000005 | Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration | Solicitation 1/1 | 2/9/26, 4:30 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $744.0k | 6/7/26 |