NHTSA Behavioral Traffic Research IDIQ

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration established this Master IDIQ on June 27, 2017, to procure behavioral traffic safety research studies, but ordering closed on July 4, 2022, making this vehicle unavailable for new task orders. The vehicle obligated $29.2 million of its combined potential value of $36.4 million across 51 task orders, with the most recent award issued on September 29, 2021.

Dunlap And Associates, Inc. dominates the prime contractor base, holding 11 orders worth $16.9 million in combined potential value. Toxcel LLC ranks second with 13 orders valued at $5.6 million, followed by Battelle Memorial Institute and University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, each with 6 orders. These top four primes capture 82% of combined potential value across 11 distinct contractors. All task orders were unrestricted competitions. NHTSA was the sole customer, funding all 51 orders.

Task orders span observational studies, literature reviews, and field data collection on driver behavior, impaired driving, speeding, distracted driving, seat belt use, pedestrian and bicyclist safety, and emerging technologies such as advanced driver assistance systems and automated vehicles. Individual task orders ranged from $75 thousand to $5.3 million obligated, with typical durations running 12 to 42 months. Notable mega-orders included a drug and alcohol prevalence study obligated at $5.3 million and roadside drug and alcohol studies valued at $1.3 million to $7.0 million potential. Task orders used cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-award-fee, time-and-materials, labor-hours, firm-fixed-price, and cost-no-fee pricing.

Ordering momentum peaked in 2020 and 2021 with 12 and 13 awards respectively before the vehicle's ordering deadline in mid-2022. The vehicle's nine-year lifecycle ran from June 2017 through the ordering ceiling of July 4, 2022, with no successor vehicle identified in the source.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Office of Behavioral Safety Research (OBSR) requires various types of research studies for identifying and understanding safety problems and crash risks associated with human behavior; developing promising countermeasures that reduce injuries and save lives; and evaluating State, local and NHTSA demonstration projects to reduce unsafe actions and eliminate crash-generating situations.