Purchase Order 9531BM21P0049

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...

This is a follow-on phase of the Track Data Auditing System (TDAS) project awarded by the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration to Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (MXV Rail), a subsidiary of Associates of American Railroad. The contract, valued at $621,411.87, focuses on testing and validating the prototype data collection segment of TDAS and establishing requirements for the automated data comparison segment. MXV Rail, as the prime contractor, will provide...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded a $1.52M definitive contract to Rhomberg Sersa USA Inc. to provide research and development support for upgrading the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system installed on the DOTX 220 rail vehicle. Under this firm fixed-price contract, the contractor will deliver additional data reports and analysis to enhance the capabilities and performance of the existing GPR system. The contract, which is not subject to any set-aside designation, carries a...

This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to the University of Illinois for the second phase of a research project on using laser triangulation and deep neural networks (DNNs) for railway safety inspections. The contract has a ceiling value of $986,941.00 and a completion date of September 30, 2025. The initial research phase developed methods to apply AI to laser-based data to detect track changes impacting safety. This second...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration to Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (doing business as MXV Rail), a subsidiary of Associates of American Railroad. The contract is valued at $629,435.00 and does not have a set-aside designation. Under this contract, MXV Rail is tasked with developing a system development and implementation plan, open standard specifications for individual system segments,...

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,...

The Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to Transportation Technology Center, Inc., doing business as MXV Rail, for $1,441,311.00 to support Phase I of the Onboard Broken Rail Research and Development Project. MXV Rail will leverage its test track facilities and rail research expertise in Pueblo, Colorado to conduct concept analysis, prototype development, testing, and research activities. The project aims to advance onboard...

The Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order valued at $1,281,186.12 to Transportation Technology Center, Inc., doing business as MXV Rail, to continue analysis and potentially perform testing at the Transportation Technology Center or over the road to measure vehicle performance under combined geometry deviations. MXV Rail will leverage its test track and laboratory facilities in Pueblo, Colorado to support the Federal...

This is a definitive contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration, a civilian agency, to Analogic Engineering, Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer. The contract, valued at $134,510.00, is for a portable or rail-mounted device with an ultrasonic probe that scans the top running surface of railroad tracks. The device transmits, receives, and processes three ultrasonic beams to measure the constant longitudinal stress in the rail. The contract has no set-aside designation and...

<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>