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 $449,953 definitive, firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. for "Using Real World Data to Automate Detection of Internal Rail Flaws". The contract, which has no set-aside designation, was awarded on September 25, 2019 and is scheduled for completion by July 31, 2022. Thornton Tomasetti, a global engineering design and analysis firm, has previously secured numerous federal contracts with...
This federal contract award to Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., a global engineering firm, is for the development of AI-based technology to enable real-time characterization of defects integrated with physics-based remaining life prediction methodology. The $475,003.00 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration, a civilian agency, on September 27, 2022, with a completion date of September 26, 2024. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Through this award,...
This is a definitive, firm-fixed-price federal contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., a global engineering firm. The contract, valued at $475,010.00, is for the "Evaluation of Hazards Associated with Powering Rail Vehicles with Alternative Fuel Sources" (TOPIC: FRA-RS-001). The contract has a completion date of July 25, 2026. Thornton Tomasetti, which has previously...
This is a $450,000.00 definitive contract awarded by the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration to Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., a global engineering design and analysis firm, to conduct risk analysis and mitigation research related to hazardous material unit trains. The contract was awarded on August 22, 2019 and was completed on May 21, 2022. This contract was not set aside for any small business program. Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. has received other federal contracts from...
This federal contract award, valued at $394,310.00, was issued by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation. The purpose of this time and materials delivery order is to support continued research and development at the Transportation Technology Center (TTC) to advance rail integrity and inspection capabilities. The prime contractor is Ensco Inc., doing business as Enscohi, a technology company that provides engineering, science, and...
This federal contract award was granted by the Federal Railroad Administration, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to the University of Illinois. The $610,000 firm fixed-price contract was awarded on September 21, 2020 with a completion date of September 20, 2024. The contract's objective is to provide a quantitative assessment of critical variables that influence longitudinal rail stress, guide future practices for adjusting rail stress, and improve the...
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 federal contract award, DTFR5311D00008|0038, was issued by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI), doing business as MXV Rail. The $629,351.53 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, supports the FRA's CARE, CUSTODY, AND CONTROL OF THE TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER program. The contract's objectives are to determine the factors...
<p>The Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration (DOT FRA) awarded a $498,476 firm fixed price definitive contract to Carnegie Mellon University Office Of Sponsored Programs Division to develop an onboard monitoring and computational embedded technology that automatically detects broken rails as they occur. The work will be performed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania over a two-year period beginning in September 2023.</p>