Definitive Contract DTFR5313C00047

This is a firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration to Sensr Monitoring Technologies, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The objective of this $154,499.00 project is to finalize the methodology for detecting the onset of scour for railroad bridge piers. The deliverables are a series of reports detailing the methodology developed over the course of monitoring six railroad bridges from mid-2013 through June 2017. This...

The Department of Transportation awarded Sencontrology, Inc. a $149,802 firm fixed price contract under the SBIR Phase I program. The contract calls for Sencontrology to develop a novel multi-sensor wireless network for bridge structural health monitoring. Specifically, the company will model cathodic protection on new construction pipelines incorporating various foam sack breakers and supports. The award is designated for total small businesses and has a period of performance through October...

This is a $500,388.00 definitive contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to the University of Illinois to conduct research related to railroad bridge condition monitoring. The contract has four main objectives: 1) Optimize and port a reference-free displacement algorithm to a portable monitoring device (the "XNode") to enable easy installation and removal from bridges; 2) Plan and conduct monitoring campaigns on in-service railroad bridges to...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, awarded a $379,370 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Southern Methodist University (SMU) to develop a system capable of classifying potential vehicle-bridge strikes based on acceleration signatures and characterizing/localizing any detected strikes. This is to minimize bridge and railroad downtime due to inspections or repairs. The contract has no set-aside designation. SMU, a private non-profit university, is performing the...

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...

The Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $177,672 definitive cost-no-fee contract to the University of South Florida (USF) to develop innovative approaches for imbedding sensors, detection, and communications technologies within railway track structures. This will enable self-enunciation of conditions requiring remedial maintenance or posing safety threats to rail operations. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As part of the effort, USF is...

The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a $386,467.10 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract to Ensco Inc., doing business as Enscohi, to develop a credit-card sized sensor that can be applied to a rail at zero stress and interrogated later to determine rail stress. The contract has a completion date of July 31, 2025. Ensco is a leading technology company that provides engineering, science, and advanced technology solutions to government agencies. The company holds several...

This is a $530,633.73 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration, a civilian agency, to Foster-Miller, Inc. (doing business as Qinetiq North America), a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturing company. The contract is for the integration of a wireless sensor networks system. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Foster-Miller is a leading defense technology company that specializes in advanced robotics, protective armor, and...

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 was issued by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to Ensco Inc. (doing business as Enscohi), a leading technology company that provides engineering, science, and advanced technology solutions. The $49,005.21 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for using LiDAR technology to detect the profiles of hump crossings and create a national database with this updated information. The contract has an ultimate...