This contract was awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to ABSG Consulting Inc. (doing business as ABS Consulting), a subsidiary of the American Bureau of Shipping. The contract, valued at $78,526.39, requires the contractor to conduct independent technical reviews of Caltrain's Peninsula Commuter Rail Transit Request for Action (RFA) to the Positive Train Control Safety Plan (PTCSP) and other safety-related...
This federal contract was awarded by the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration to Truesafety Evaluation, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The $471,246.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for Expertise Management (EM) services to address the risks posed by an aging workforce and the loss of critical expertise in the U.S. railroad industry. EM is a mature approach for identifying, capturing, and transferring expertise, building on Cognitive Task Analysis. The...
The Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $140,801 delivery order contract to Absg Consulting Inc., doing business as Abs Consulting, to provide professional technical consulting services for the independent review of positive train control safety plans. As the prime contractor, Abs Consulting will perform the work over a three-month period concluding in October 2021. The parent company of Abs Consulting is the American Bureau of Shipping, doing business as Abs...
This contract was awarded by the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration to Tier 1 Performance Solutions LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The objective is to repeat a previous human reliability or human error analysis task with a larger number of participants for greater statistical power. The contract has a potential value of $506,392.37 and was awarded on September 25, 2018, with an anticipated completion date of August 24, 2020. The contract is a definitive...
This is a firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to ABSG Consulting Inc. (ABS Consulting), a subsidiary of the American Bureau of Shipping. The contract, valued at $143,572, requires ABS Consulting to conduct independent technical reviews of the Alaska Railroad's Request for Approval of its Positive Train Control Safety Plan and other safety-related documentation. ABS Consulting will...
The Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $585,736.87 definitive contract to Tier 1 Performance Solutions LLC. The firm fixed price contract runs from September 26, 2022 through September 25, 2024 and is for research and development services to support Federal Railroad Administration rail research entitled "Designing Crew Resource Management (CRM) Training to Improve Communication and Reduce Human Error Potential in the Locomotive Cab." Specifically,...
The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price contract to ABSG Consulting Inc., doing business as ABS Consulting, to conduct independent safety assessments of each railroad's Positive Train Control Safety Plan (PTCSP) and requests for amendments to comply with federal regulations. The contract, valued at $76,239.21, has an ultimate completion date of January 28, 2024. ABS Consulting, a subsidiary of the American Bureau of Shipping, has extensive experience...
Absg Consulting Inc., doing business as Abs Consulting, has been awarded a $281,791 time and materials delivery order contract by the Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration to review Positive Train Control Safety Plans. Under the contract, Abs Consulting will review plans from Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit and Community Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority related to implementing electronic train control vital overlay systems. The delivery order was issued...
This is a firm fixed-price BPA call order awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration, a civilian agency, to Phase One Consulting Group, LLC for $84,291.32 to provide planning services for the redesign of railroad safety forms. The order was placed under an existing Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) and has an ultimate completion date of February 29, 2016. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Phase One Consulting Group, LLC is a global professional services company that has...
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $75,350 labor-hour delivery order to Envisions Consulting, LLC, a management consulting and organizational development firm. The order was issued against Envisions' existing Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract with the General Services Administration. This order aims to provide leadership development, planning, and support services for the FRA's Railroad Program Development (RPD) division's senior leaders and...