Purchase Order N4523A23P5701

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 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 $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 Delivery Order contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (DBA MXV Rail), a subsidiary of the non-profit Associates of American Railroad. The $3,235,388.63 contract is for the design and construction of a test track section with precisely adjustable track geometry variations to support the evaluation of a track geometry measurement system. This is part of the agency's...

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...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a civilian agency, to Analogic Engineering, Inc., a woman-owned small business. The contract is for a portable or rail-mounted device with an ultrasonic probe that scans the top running surface of rails, transmitting, receiving, and processing three ultrasonic beams. The contract has a ceiling value of $370,245.00 and a completion date of December 1, 2023. The contract was awarded on September...

The Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration awarded a $213,299.57 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract to Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (doing business as MXV Rail), a subsidiary of the Associates of American Railroad. The contract objectives are to characterize the current track geometry environment of the U.S. railroad system, including passenger and freight routes, and examine the combination of geometry parameters for different operations. The results...

<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>

This federal contract was awarded by the Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration to Ensco Inc., doing business as Enscohi, to establish a practical procedure using automated processes to monitor track geometry measurements and identify locations with excessive degradation. The major objectives are to detect, monitor, and report deviations in track geometry metrics that approach safety limits. The $688,144 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is part of a larger research,...

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...