FHWA Transportation Planning and Environment Training

The Federal Highway Administration established a Master IDIQ for development, update, and delivery of transportation planning and environment training courses through the National Highway Institute on February 8, 2016, with a combined potential value of $19 million and a last date to order of February 7, 2021—the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders. Ordering closed over five years ago, and the most recent task-order award was in July 2020.

This Master IDIQ supported National Highway Institute course development and delivery across a range of transportation planning and environmental topics. Task orders funded the update and delivery of courses including water quality management of highway runoff, managing road impacts on stream ecosystems, erosion and sediment control, highway traffic noise, environmental justice analysis, resilience in highway project development, and performance-based planning and programming. Work was delivered through multiple modalities, including in-person classroom training and conversion of legacy courses to web-based formats.

WSP USA Inc. led in combined potential value at $3 million across five orders, followed by Mccormick Taylor Inc. at $2.2 million across two orders and ICF Incorporated LLC at $1.9 million across eight orders. Iteris Inc. and CDR Associates completed the five-contractor pool. All 22 task orders were unrestricted, with no set-aside activity. The Federal Highway Administration was the sole customer across all orders.

Activity peaked in 2016 with 11 task orders awarded in the vehicle's first year; subsequent years declined to 4 orders in 2017, 4 in 2019, and 3 in 2020 before the vehicle's ordering period ended. Of the $8.5 million in combined task-order potential value, $3.7 million has been obligated (44 percent). Three task orders included minimum ordering guarantees to satisfy IDIQ floor requirements; several others were ultimately closed out with zero obligation as course delivery was completed under different authority or requirements shifted.

The National Highway Institute is the training and education arm of the Federal Highway Administration and as such, plays a vital role in the FHWA's overall effort to provide training in new and evolving highway related technologies. This Master IDIQ supportd the FHWA Office of Technical Services' (OTS) National Highway Institute (NHI) for the development, update, and delivery of training courses in the subject areas of Transportation Planning and Environment.