The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a $150,000.00 firm-fixed-price contract to Harsco Metro Rail LLC to utilize the company's Vehicle Track Dynamics Measurement System (VTDMS) to track and categorize risks associated with mud spots on revenue service locations. Harsco Metro Rail LLC is a subsidiary of Harsco Corporation, a diversified industrial company that provides various goods and services to the U.S. federal government. This contract does not have a set-aside designation,...
This is a $218,516 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to Harsco Metro Rail LLC, a subsidiary of Harsco Corporation. The contract is for the development, field testing, and demonstration of anti-idling technologies for maintenance of way vehicles. This work aligns with the FRA's Broad Agency Announcement soliciting research and applied technology projects to advance rail safety, state of good repair, and efficiency. The contract is not a set-aside and...
<p>This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration, a civilian agency, to Harsco Corporation for a field demonstration of a geocell track substructure support system under high-speed passenger railroad operations. The contract has a ceiling value of $182,591.00 and a completion date of January 8, 2018. There is no set-aside designation for this contract. The contract supports the agency's mission of improving passenger rail infrastructure and operations.</p>
The U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command Joint Munitions Command awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Harsco Corporation (Harsco Track / Fairmont) for the delivery of a Railroad Tamper. The contract has a potential value of $1,058,853.00 and a completion date of January 31, 2019. The contract was awarded on June 22, 2018 and does not have a set-aside designation. The original solicitation was a pre-solicitation for a railroad track maintenance equipment requirement, with...
This is a $134,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian U.S. government agency, to Triad Railroad Consulting LLC. The objective of the contract is to develop a guidance manual for FRA track inspectors and other personnel to address track inspection issues that impact the safety and efficiency of emerging high-speed rail operations in the U.S., particularly focusing on high-cant deficiency train operations. The contract does not have a...
This firm fixed price purchase order contract was awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to Railinc Corp, a subsidiary of the Associates of American Railroads (AAR) non-profit trade association. The $2,243,930.61 contract is for the annual Carload Waybill Sample, a proprietary database of terminated rail shipments that the FRA and Surface Transportation Board (STB) use for regulatory oversight, analysis, and studies...
The Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $303,879 firm fixed price definitive contract to the University of Delaware. This contract builds upon previous research efforts to further develop analytical models and demonstrate the relationship between track geometry defects and key subsurface measurement parameters obtained from ground penetrating radar and track modulus testing. The work directly continues Phase 1 efforts under prior FRA contracts to the same awardee. This Phase 2 contract...
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 U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a $299,992.86 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to Ensco Inc., doing business as Enscohi, to provide support for the introduction of new track inspection technologies and the advancement of existing technologies. The contract focuses on system integration, data interpretation, and analysis efforts. This award is associated with a larger indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract that Ensco holds with the FRA, valued at $571...
This federal contract award, with ID DTFR5312D00008|0007, was issued by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Fulcrum Corporation, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $146,896.36 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for a proposed experiment to test a selected track interface using a high-rail vehicle and FRA track inspectors on an actual section of railroad track. The contract has no set-aside designation. Fulcrum Corporation, through its subsidiary Syntek...