Infrastructure Research and Technology Deployment Program

The Federal Highway Administration established this Master IDIQ on September 11, 2019, to provide technical, engineering, publications, marketing, and professional support services to the FHWA Office of Infrastructure in transportation topics. Ordering closed on September 9, 2024, and no new task orders may be placed against the vehicle.

The shared ceiling stands at $19 million. Combined task-order potential value reached $22.8 million, with $20.4 million obligated (90% of combined potential). The portfolio of 50 awarded task orders shows declining ordering momentum: 16 orders in 2020 dropping to 2 orders in 2024, with the most recent award dated October 1, 2024.

Scope encompasses policy and regulatory analysis, program evaluations, feasibility studies, technical manuals and reports, analytical tools and data visualizations, focus groups, meeting and workshop support, course development, case studies, handbooks, and marketing materials including videos, briefs, articles, and brochures. Recent task orders illustrate the breadth: CSRA data analysis, state DOT 2022 BIL-compliant transportation asset management plans, unmanned aerial systems deployment, program support services, load rating technical support, asset management in federal land management areas, web-based TAMP videos, wildfire impacts on pavements, and bridge management systems analysis.

ICF Incorporated dominates the prime contractor base, holding 14 orders valued at $8.8 million combined potential (39% of total awards and 38% of combined potential value). WSP USA Inc. ranks second with 8 orders worth $4.8 million. Applied Research Associates, Applied Pavement Technology, and Iowa State University round out the top five. All task orders fund FHWA programs; the vehicle serves a single customer agency.

The entire portfolio carries no set-aside designation. Individual task orders employ both firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structures. Task-order values range from approximately $55,000 to $2.28 million (per the Utilities and Railroad Peer Exchanges order). Durations extend from under one year to multi-year efforts with option periods. Several high-value orders include Major Project Cost and Schedule Risk Assessment ($1.42 million ceiling), EDC-6 Digital As-Builts Initiative ($2.28 million ceiling), and Bridge Preservation Expert Task Group Support ($2.24 million ceiling).

The overall scope of the IDIQ involves providing technical, engineering, publications, marketing, and professional support services, as needed, in a variety of transportation topics to support the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Infrastructure (HIF) program. Potential activities include, but are not limited to, policy/regulatory support and analysis, analysis of program delivery approaches, program evaluations, feasibility studies, white papers, development of technical manuals and reports, guidance, standards, analytical tools including data visualizations applications and trade-off analysis, focus group meetings, meeting support, course development and delivery, workshops/seminars, case studies, handbooks, marketing and communication strategies/activities such as videos, technical briefs, articles, brochures and outreach to industry.