Small Business Behavioral Safety Research Support IDIQ Contract
Action Code: Sources Sought
Classification Code: AT21, R&D: Transportation-Human Factors-Basic Research
Solicitation: 693JJ920RQ000270
Agency/Office: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Location: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ
NAICS Code: 541720, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities,
$22.0 M.
Point of Contract: Vincent Lynch, Contracting Officer, ph (202) 366-9568
Title: Small Business Behavioral Safety Research Support IDIQ Contract
Description(s):
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to identify potential qualified Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), or Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) concerns that may be interested in, and capable of, performing the work described herein to perform professional and technical services to conduct behavioral safety research projects including the following activities: research design, data collection, subject recruitment, conducting focus groups, program development, program implementation, literature reviews, data analyses, performance analyses, technological design, human-environment interface, statistical analysis, interpretation of data and results, and report preparation.
NHTSA welcomes all qualified Small Business concerns, with the appropriate NAICS Code and past experience, to submit their Corporate Capability Statements that demonstrate their ability to successfully accomplish the goals of the project as listed below. NHTSA does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses to this notice or otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made, and no formal evaluation of the information received will be conducted by NHTSA. That said, NHTSA may issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) at a later date. Should such a requirement fail to materialize, however, no basis for claims against NHTSA shall arise as a result of a response to this notice.
Background:
NHTSA’s mission is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. The agency develops, promotes, and implements effective educational, engineering, and enforcement programs with the goal of ending vehicle crash tragedies and reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel.
NHTSA’s Office of Behavioral Safety Research directly supports the Agency’s efforts to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries by providing the scientific basis for the development of effective behavioral countermeasures to reduce the occurrence and severity of traffic crashes. Behavioral Safety Research studies unsafe driving behaviors that contribute significantly to death and injury from crashes on our highways. The research results support the development and refinement of countermeasures to deter unsafe behaviors and promote safe alternatives.
Behavioral Safety Research also evaluates the relative effectiveness of programs to reduce fatalities and injuries on our highways, which is critical to achieving further progress toward meeting national goals and performance targets. Research, analysis, and evaluation program results address existing and emerging highway safety problems and are disseminated to the States to use to identify effective traffic safety countermeasures for implementation through the highway safety formula grant program (Section 402). Examples of studies can be found in the
Behavioral Safety Research collection at the National Transportation Library (https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/). Research topics include drug-impaired driving, alcohol-impaired driving, seat belt usage and child passenger safety (occupant protection), pedestrian and bicyclist safety, motorcyclist safety, distracted driving, drowsy driving, older drivers, young and novice drivers, safe speeds and speed management, Emergency Medical Services, Automated Driving Systems human factors research, and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems driver adaptation research.
Objective:
The objective is to establish a multiple award IDIQ contract with qualified small businesses to conduct behavioral traffic safety research. Under the proposed IDIQ contract Task Orders may be issued to address NHTSA’s requirement for the following types of activities: research design, data collection, subject recruitment, conducting focus groups, program development, program implementation, literature reviews, data analyses, performance analyses, technological design, human-environment interface, statistical analysis, interpretation of data and results, and report preparation. Any of these activities may involve data collection at a local, state, or federal level.
Format of Corporate Capabilities Statement:
Any interested qualified Small Business firms, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns should submit their Corporate Capability Statement, which demonstrates the firm’s ability and past experience in no more than 10 pages to perform the key requirements described above to the identified NHTSA point of contact listed herein.
Any proprietary information should be marked as such. All respondents are asked to certify that the type and size of their business organization is in-line with the requirements of this Sources Sought Notice. All requested information must be received no later than 10 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice.
693JJ920RQ000270 Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1/16/20, 3:42 PM Small Business Behavioral Safety Research Support IDIQ Contract
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). NHTSA’s mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes. The agency achieves this mission through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity.
NHTSA’s Office of Behavioral Safety Research directly supports the Agency’s efforts to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries by providing the scientific basis for the development of effective behavioral countermeasures to reduce the occurrence and severity of traffic crashes. Behavioral Safety Research studies unsafe driving behaviors that contribute significantly to death and injury from crashes on our highways. The research results support the development and refinement of countermeasures to deter unsafe behaviors and promote safe alternatives. Behavioral Safety Research also evaluates the relative effectiveness of programs to reduce fatalities and injuries on our highways, which is critical to achieving further progress toward meeting national goals and performance targets. Research, analysis, and evaluation program results address existing and emerging highway safety problems and are disseminated to the States to use to identify effective traffic safety countermeasures for implementation through the highway safety formula grant program (Section 402). Examples of studies can be found in the Behavioral Safety Research collection at the National Transportation Library (https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/). Research topics include drug-impaired driving, alcohol-impaired driving, seat belt usage and child passenger safety (occupant protection), pedestrian and bicyclist safety, motorcyclist safety, distracted driving, drowsy driving, older drivers, young and novice drivers, safe speeds and speed management, Emergency Medical Services, Automated Driving Systems human factors research, and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems driver adaptation research.
The purpose of this Contract is to procure an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, on a Cost Reimbursement, Time & Material (T&M), and/or Firm Fixed Price (FFP) bases, professional and technical services to conduct behavioral safety research projects. , The Government will issue Task Orders to obtain professional and technical services.
Each Task Order will include specific requirements for that Task Order. This section describes the types of services that may be required under this contract. The listing below is provided as an example and does not represent any current or known requirement.
The Contractor will be required to conduct behavioral traffic safety research. This may include any or all of the following activities: research design, data collection, subject recruitment, conducting focus groups, program development, program implementation, literature reviews, data analyses, performance analyses, technological design, human-environment interface, statistical analysis, interpretation of data and results, and report preparation. Any of these activities may involve data collection at a local, state, or federal level.
Typical examples of data to be collected include the following:
driver records;
law enforcement records, such as enforcement activity, police stops, and arrest data;
court records, such as conviction records and sanction records;
vehicle data, such as instances and circumstances of braking or speed change;
crash data, including fatal crash data;
public attitudes;
safety equipment use (e.g., observation of seat belt or child restraint use);
human and environment or technological interface;
the impairing effects of alcohol or drug use;
human performance;
attitudes and opinions of traffic safety officials; and
program process information (e.g., how well a program runs from an operations viewpoint).
The Contractor will be required to obtain data in various formats. Some data may be available archival data, such as DWI arrest records. In some cases, the contractor will be able to obtain data in an electronic format. In other cases, data will be available in hard copy only, which will require more extensive labor to organize. In some cases, the Contractor may need to collect data during the task order, such as seat belt observations or vehicle speeds. In many instances, data collection procedures may require prior approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and an institutional review board (IRB).
Of the different potential research activities listed above, research activities may include:
Field Data Collection
Crash and Injury Statistical Analyses
Program Evaluation
Human Factors/Technology Evaluation
Field Data Collection will require the Contractor to send staff to specific locations to collect the data underlying the research activity. An example would be gathering information on the number of passengers in vehicles leaving a high school student parking lot at the end of a school day. The Contractor may be required to collect data on how many cars left the parking lot, how many drivers had passengers, and the sex of the driver and front seat passengers. Another example would be collecting seat belt use at areas frequented by different groups of drivers, such as at a sports bar frequented by college students and a restaurant near a retirement community. Activities would include collecting, organizing and delivering data to the COR (TO).
Crash and Injury Statistical Analyses require analyzing existing data from a variety of sources that may include States’ crash files, hospital or medical cost files, or NHTSA’s crash files such as the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) or the Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS). Examples of projects include analyzing characteristics of fatal non-intersection crashes involving young adult drivers on rural roadways using FARS data, analyzing injury severity of different age groups of drivers using CRSS data, or analyzing teen licensure rates based on State data. These projects shall require the Contractor to conduct statistical analyses on specific data sets and interpret the findings.
Program Evaluation is an evaluation of a program (countermeasure) developed and implemented by a State or local government. Examples include assessing the impact of a demonstration program to increase seat belt use in rural communities; evaluating the impact of a local primary seat belt ordinance; or evaluating a program designed to encourage parents to actively monitor their teen’s driving. The appropriate evaluation approach may be a process evaluation, an outcome evaluation, a safety impact evaluation, or some combination. The Contractor shall use sound evaluation methodology and techniques to address all evaluation questions.
Human Factors/Technology Evaluation project explores drivers’ and/or passengers’ interactions with the vehicle, including advanced driver assistance systems. Examples include implementing and evaluating an in-vehicle monitoring system for teen drivers; developing, implementing and evaluating and evaluating technologies designed to encourage seat belt use among at-risk populations; using driving simulators for driver training. Through human factors psychology and/or human factors engineering, the Contractor may be required to implement and evaluate various technologies.
This acquisition is being offered as a Small Business Set-Aside. The NAICS Code for the anticipated contract is 541720. Contractors must be registered in the Systems for Award Management Database located at http://www.sams.gov, and must complete electronic representations and certification on the ORCA database located at http://orca.bpn.gov to be considered for contract award. It is the Government’s intent to award a Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to issue Task Orders on a Cost Reimbursement, Time & Material (T&M), and/or Firm Fixed Price (FFP) bases resulting from the solicitation, with or without discussions, to the responsible offeror whose proposal, conforming to the solicitation, is most advantageous to the Government based on the evaluation factors contained in the solicitation. It is the Offeror’s responsibility to monitor the https://beta.sam.gov/ for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential Offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Requests for paper copies of the RFP will not be accepted. The estimated date for release of the solicitation is on or about Nov 17, 2020.
Period of Performance: Sixty (60) months with a thirty-six (36) month base period with two (2) renewable twelve (12) month Option Periods.
Contract Award: The anticipated award date for the resultant contract is expected to be on or about May 31, 2021
No Further Procurement Information is Available at this time.
Contracting Office Address:
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, District of Columbia 20590
Primary Point of Contact.:
David Larson
David.Larson@dot.gov
Secondary Point of Contract:
Sherese Gray
Sherese.Gray@dot.gov
693JJ920R000008 Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
10/30/20, 1:25 PM