FHWA HRDS Technical Support Services IDIQ 2016-2021

The Federal Highway Administration established this Master IDIQ for non-personal technical support services to its Office of Safety Research and Development on September 30, 2016, with a shared ceiling of $50 million and an ordering period that closed on September 29, 2021. The vehicle is now inactive; no new task orders may be placed against it, and the ordering period ended nearly five years ago.

Over the course of the vehicle's life, FHWA awarded 57 task orders with a combined potential value of $22.6 million, of which $22.5 million (100 percent) has been obligated. Ordering activity peaked in 2020 with 23 task orders, then declined sharply to just one order in 2021 before the vehicle closed. Task orders covered crash analysis and countermeasures across human factors, vehicle factors, physical environment factors, and socioeconomic factors; representative work included management and maintenance of the Highway Safety Information System, naturalistic driving study analysis, pavement friction measurement and management, pedestrian and bicycle safety research, evaluation of interchange designs, guardrail end-terminal testing, and development of safety guidelines for low-volume roads.

Competition was highly concentrated. Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB) captured 44 percent of task orders by count (25 of 57) and 58 percent of combined potential value ($13 million of $22.6 million). Texas A&M Transportation Institute held 26 percent of orders by count (15 orders, $5.5 million). Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and Battelle Memorial Institute each received the remainder, with 11 and 6 orders respectively. All 57 task orders were unrestricted competitive awards; no set-asides were used. All orders funded FHWA programs exclusively; no other federal agencies placed orders on the vehicle.

Task order values ranged from under $25,000 to approximately $3 million. Pricing structures included firm fixed price, time and materials, and labor hours. Notable larger orders included VHB's Highway Safety Information System maintenance ($3.06 million), VHB's Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian program support ($1.09 million), and multiple naturalistic driving study and pooled fund task orders in the $300,000 to $600,000 range.

IDIQ for non-personal technical support services to The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety Research and Development. The scope of this contract is limited to providing technical support to address crashes in which there is some combination of human factors, vehicle factors, physical environment factors, and socioeconomic factors. This technical support may require the Contractor to manage and operate FHWA laboratory facilities or perform offsite at their facilities.