20260812_DOT03010154_CTDOT_Definitions_RFP_Part VI.pdf

CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

FURNISHING PRE-WIRED SIGNAL HOUSES AND CASES FOR THE

NEW HAVEN RAIL LINE

NORWALK, CT TO BRIDGEPORT, CT

CP-244 TO CP-257

Solicitation 26-CTRAIL-SIGNALS-1

August 12, 2026

PART 6: ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS, AND DEFINITIONS

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

ABHR Absolute Block Home Relay

ABPR Absolute Block Permissive Request

AFO Audio Frequency Overlay

ANSI American National Standards Institute

AREMA American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATC Automatic Train Control

ATCS Advanced Train Control System

CAD Computer Aided Design

CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CDRL Contract Deliverables Requirements List

CI Circuit Integrity

CIL Central Instrument Location

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

CGS Connecticut General Statutes

CLI Command Line Interface

COTS Commercial-Off-The-Shelf

CP Control Point (Interlocking)

CPM Critical Path Method

CQP Contractor Quality Plan

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check

CSA Canadian Standards Association

CTC Centralized Traffic Control

CTCWAN Centralized Traffic Control Wide Area Network

CTDOT Connecticut Department of Transportation

DIN Deutsches Institute fur Normung (German Institute for Standardization)

DLAN Digital Local Area Network

DMZ Demilitarized Zone

DTS Data Transmission System

DWDM Defense Wavelength Division Multiplexing

EIA Electronics Industries Association

EDT Eastern Daylight Saving Time

EIA Electronic Industries Alliance

EMI Electromagnetic Interference

EMT Electric Metallic Tubing

EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EST Eastern Standard Time

ETFE Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene

FAT Factory Acceptance Test

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FDP Fiber Distribution Panel

FEMA Failure Modes Effects Analysis

FMECA Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis

FRACAS Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System

FRB Failure Review Board

FOIA Freedom of Information Act

FOIC Freedom of Information Commission

FRA Federal Railroad Administration (U.S. Department of Transportation)

FTA Federal Transit Administration

GK Signal Indication

GR Green Route Signal Indication

(GZ) Control Signal Request Control

HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

HZ Hertz

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol

IP Internet Protocol

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISP Invoice Summary and Processing

ITCM Interoperable Train Control Messaging

ITCS Incremental Train Control System

I&TP Inspection and Test Plan

JEDEC Joint Electron Device Engineering Council

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LCP Local Control Panel

LED Light Emitting Diode

LAN Local Area Network

LRU Line Replaceable Units

MAC Media Access Control

MAS Maximum Authorized Speed

ML Master Location

MIL-STD Military Standard

MNR Metro-North Railroad

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet

MTBF Mean Time Between Failures

MTTR Mean Time To Repair

NAICS North American Industry Classification System

NCRS Non-Conformance Reports

NELAP National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program

NEC National Electrical Code

NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association

NFPA National Fire Protection Association

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NRPD Non-Electronic Parts Reliability Data

NVN North Vital Network

NTP Notice to Proceed

NVMIS Non-Vital Microprocessor Based Interlocking System

NWPR Normal Switch Repeater Relay

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

OOC Operations Control Center

OPM Connecticut Office of Policy and Management

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

PCB Printed Circuit Board

PHA Preliminary Hazard Analysis

PMP Project Management Plan

PPI Producer Price Index

PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory

PSP Product Safety Plan

PTC Positive Train Control

QMS Quality Management System

RAC Reliability Analysis Center

RFI Radio Frequency Interference

RFI Request for Information

RFP Request for Proposal

RGP Red Signal Repeater

RMA Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability

RPA Reliability Prediction Analysis

RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

RWP Roadway Worker Protection

RWPR Reverse Switch Repeater Relay

RWC Reverse Switch Correspondence

SASP Safety Assurance and System Performance

SBE Small Business Enterprise

SCPM Safety-Critical Preventive Maintenance

SDS Signal Design Speed

SEC Serial to Ethernet Converter

SML Switch Machine Lock

SNMR Simple Network Management Protocol

SQAP Software Quality Assurance Plan

SOTS Connecticut Secretary of the State

SOW Scope of Work

SSR Solid State Relay

SSAL Site Specific Application Logic

STP Spanning Tree Protocol

SVN South Vital Network

TCML Track Circuit Transformer Coupling Location

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

THHN Thermoplastic High Heat Resistant Nylon coated wire

THW Thermoplastic Heat and Water Resistant Wire

TX Transmitter

UL Underwriters Laboratories

UTP Untwisted Pair

VMIS Vital Microprocessor Interlocking System

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

WAN Wide Area Network

WIU Wayside Interface Unit

DEFINITIONS

“Addendum” means any modification or addition to the RFP issued by CTDOT from time to time.

“Affirmative Action Plan” has the meaning set forth in section 3.7 of the Contract.

“Amtrak” means the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.

“Approved Purposes” has the meaning set forth in section 26.3 of the Contract.

“Attorney General” means the State of Connecticut Office of the Attorney General.

“Auditors of Public Accounts” means the State of Connecticut Auditors of Public Accounts.

“Bonds” refers to the Payment Bond, Performance Bond, and Warranty Bond set forth in Article 15 of the

Contract.

“Breach” has the meaning set forth in Article 21 of the Contract.

“Change Order” means written notice from CTDOT to the Contractor specifying changes to the Scope of

Work, including, without limitation, those required to address contingencies, unforeseen conditions, new or amended State and/or Federal laws and regulations, procedures, Emergency Work, or contractual flow down provisions, or the correction of deficiencies in the Work.

“Change Order Work” has the meaning set forth in section 11.4 of the Contract.

“Claims” means all actions, suits, claims, demands, investigations and proceedings of any kind, open, pending or threatened, whether mature, unmature, contingent, known or unknown, at law or in equity in any forum.

“Confidential Information” means any name, number or other information that may be used, alone or in conjunction with any other information, to identify a specific individual including, but not limited to, such individual's name, date of birth, mother's maiden name, motor vehicle operator's license number, Social

Security number, employee identification number, employer or taxpayer identification number, alien registration number, government passport number, health insurance identification number, demand deposit account number, savings account number, credit card number, debit card number or unique biometric data such as fingerprint, voice print, retina or iris image, or other unique physical representation. Without limiting the foregoing, Confidential Information shall also include any information that CTDOT or Contractor classifies as “confidential” or “restricted.” Notwithstanding the above, Confidential Information shall not include information that may be lawfully obtained from publicly available sources or from federal, state, or local government records which are lawfully made available to the general public.

“Confidential Information Breach” means, generally, an instance where an unauthorized person or entity accesses Confidential Information in any manner, including but not limited to the following occurrences: (1) any Confidential Information that is not encrypted or protected is misplaced, lost, stolen or in any way compromised; (2) one or more third parties have had access to or taken control or possession of any Confidential Information that is not encrypted or protected without prior written authorization from the State; (3) the unauthorized acquisition of encrypted or protected Confidential

Information together with the confidential process or key that is capable of compromising the integrity of the Confidential Information; or (4) if there is a substantial risk of identity theft or fraud to the client, the Contractor, the CTDOT or State.

“Contract” means the agreement that will be entered into between CTDOT and the Contractor for performance of the Work. For the purposes of the RFP, the draft Contract is attached at Part 5.

“Contract Deliverable Requirements List” or “CDRL” means the document listing the work items that the Contractor must complete and deliver under the Contract.

"Contractor Parties" means the Contractor's members, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, managers, principal officers, representatives, agents, servants, consultants, employees or any one of the foregoing or any other person or entity with whom the Contractor is in privity of oral or written contract and the Contractor intends for such other person or entity to perform under the Contract in any capacity.

“Contractor” means the Proposer that CTDOT selects, and enters into the Contract with, to perform the

Work under the Contract.

“Conditional Acceptance” means acceptance of signal houses and cases by CTDOT in writing after discrepancies listed on the receiving report have been corrected and the houses and cases are certified for installation and testing prior to final acceptance.

“Connecticut Rail Maintenance Facility” means the shop and yard facility owned by the State of

Connecticut located at 920 Union Avenue in Bridgeport, CT or such alternate location as called for by

CTDOT.

“Critical Path Method” means the scheduling approach documenting the series of activities that are crucial to the completion of the project within the specified time.

“CTSource” refers to the State of Connecticut’s contracting web portal where the Request for Proposal and other contract documents are posted publicly.

“Cure Period” has the meaning set forth in section 21.2 of the Contract.

“Days” means calendar days, unless otherwise designated. Business and working days shall be Monday through Friday, exclusive of federally designated Holidays

“Dispute Resolution” refers to the process described in Article 20 of the Contract.

“Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in section 2.1 of the Contract.

“Engineer” refers to the Commissioner of The Department of Transportation, Bureau Chief of the Bureau of Public Transportation acting directly or through a representative duly authorized.

“Equipment and/or “Signal Equipment” means signal houses and signal cases including subcomponents.

“Fault Tree Analysis” is a deductive, top-down approach to determining the cause of a specific undesired event within a complex system. It involves breaking down the root cause of a failure into its contributing factors and representing it through a graphical model called a fault tree, which helps managers and engineers identify potential failure modes and the probability of each failure mode, for safety and reliability analyses.

“Final Acceptance” is provided when all of the open items associated with Conditional Acceptance have been closed to the satisfaction of CTDOT. Final acceptance paperwork is filled out and signed by both the

Contractor and CTDOT’s Representative.

“Force Majeure” means an act of God, riots, embargoes, wars, blockades, insurrections, strikes and work stoppages, fires, floods, governmental orders or regulations, accidents and other contingencies beyond the reasonable control of the Contractor and which by the exercise of due diligence the Contractor is unable to prevent or overcome.

“Interoperable Train Control Messaging” refers to a standard messaging system used in the railroad industry.

“Licensed Technology” has the meaning set forth in section 26.1 of the Contract.

"Licensed Software" has the meaning set forth in section 27.1 of the Contract.

"Manufacturer" and "Vendor" to have the same meaning.

“Master Location instrument house (ML)” refers to a signal house located near the insulated joints between adjacent signal blocks in the intermediate territory between interlockings.

“Milestone” refers to a specified deliverable requiring completion for payment as described in Article 12of the Contract.

“Milestone Payment” is the compensation paid to the Contractor after successful completion of the

Milestone.

“Milestone Table” refers to the table of Milestones and Milestone Payments in Schedule D to the Contract.

“MTAC&D” means the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Construction and Development company, a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority created to manage capital improvement projects.

“New Haven Line” means the rail right of way owned by CTDOT from New Haven, CT to the Connecticut-

New York state border and owned by Metro-North Railroad from such state border to Mount Vernon, NY.

“Notice to Proceed” or “NTP” means CTDOT’s written direction issued to the Contractor authorizing it to start to perform the Work or any portion of the Work pursuant to the terms and conditions of the

Contract.

“Official Notice” means written notice prepared and issued in accordance with the process set forth in

Article 29 of the Contract.

“Operations Control Center” refers to the Metro-North primary and backup locations where equipment and personnel are located to perform train dispatch and train control.

“Payment Bond” has the meaning set forth in section 15.3 of the Contract.

“Performance Bond” has the meaning set forth in section 15.2 of the Contract.

“Personnel” has the meaning set forth in section 3.1 of the Contract.

“Post Termination Costs” has the meaning set forth in section 22.3 of the Contract.

“Price Proposal Form” means the document set forth as Part 6 to the RFP.

“Project" means the design and furnishing of a new wayside signal system to replace the existing vital relay based signal system as further described within the Technical Specifications, Contract Drawings, and RFP

Documents

“Project Management Plan” means the Contractor’s method of managing the Work.

“Project Manager” is the Contractor’s representative responsible for the day to day management and oversight of the Work.

“Proposer” means an entity submitting a Proposal in response to the RFP.

“Proposal” means the document signed by the Proposer’s authorized representative and submitted to CTDOT in response to the RFP.

“Prospective Contractor” means a Proposer.

“Quality Assurance Program” has the meaning set forth in Section F.6 of the Instructions to Proposers.

“Rail Administrator” means the CTDOT employee holding the position of Rail Administrator or his/her designee authorized to act on his/her behalf, as designated in writing by CTDOT from time-to-time.

“Records” means all working papers and such other information and materials as may have been accumulated by the Contractor in performing the Contract, including, but not limited to, documents, data, plans, books, computations, drawings, specifications, notes, reports, records, estimates, summaries, memoranda and correspondence, kept or stored in any form.

“Request for Proposal” (“RFP”) means the solicitation inviting firms to submit Proposals on Solicitation #

26-CTRAIL-SIGNALS-1 issued by CTDOT for the competitive procurement of a of pre-wired signal houses and cases for the New Haven Line.

“Software" has the meaning set forth in section 27.2 of the Contract.

“Software License” has the meaning set forth in section 27.1 of the Contract.

“Specification” means the general, commercial, technical and special requirements.

“State” means the State of Connecticut, including CTDOT, and any office, department, board, council, commission, institution or other agency or entity of the State.

“Subcontractor” refers to any provider to the Contractor of any services or materials for incorporation into pre-wired signal houses and cases, spare parts, or other contract deliverable. The Contractor shall be solely responsible for the services or materials provided by the Subcontractor. The words “supplier", manufacturer" and "vendor" to have the same meaning.

“Track Circuit Transformer Coupling instrument case (TCML)” refers to a signal case located near the insulated joints between adjacent signal blocks in the intermediate territory between interlockings.

“Technical Specification” means the document set forth as Part 4 to the RFP.

“Technology License” has the meaning set forth in section 26.1 of the Contract.

“Term” has the meaning set forth in section 2.2 of the Contract.

“Termination Notice” has the meaning set forth in section 22.2 of the Contract.

“Training Program” means the training to be provided by the Contractor to familiarize maintenance, supervisory and engineering personnel with all aspects of the operation, inspection, maintenance, repair and supply of parts for Pre-Wired Signal houses and cases.

“Warranty” has the meaning set forth in Article 24 of the Contract.

“Warranty Bond” has the meaning set forth in section 15.4 of the Contract.

“Warranty Period(s)” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(b) of the Scope of Work.

“Work” means all services to be performed and goods and materials to be provided by the Contractor as set forth in the Contract Documents, including any Change Order Work and any Option Work exercised during the Term of the Contract.