synopsis_-_693JJ318R000024.pdf

NOTICE OF PROPOSED CONTRACT ACTION. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR

COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS.

The Federal Highway Administration intends to solicit a multiple award Indefinite Delivery

Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) for the below services:

Solicitation Number:

693JJ318R000024

Title:

Infrastructure Research and Technology Deployment Program

Synopsis:

The mission of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Infrastructure (HIF) is to provide leadership, technical expertise, program assistance, and stewardship and oversight of the Federal-Aid Highway Program to include, but is not limited to the areas of pavements;

bridges; tunnels, and other structures; and asset and transportation performance management.

We accomplish this through the programs and initiatives of HIF, its partners, customers, and others to achieve the following Healthy Infrastructure outcomes:

Bridges and Structures - Improved safety and durability of bridges, tunnels, and other highway structures; Improved highway performance under all conditions; Minimized impact of construction on traffic; Resilient infrastructure with minimal impact to livelihood, and economy following a hazard event.

Pavement and Materials – Enhanced pavement designs, more durable and sustainable materials, and improved test methods to meet the needs of highway agencies.

Construction and Program Administration - Accelerated construction and improved infrastructure quality; Effective investment of Federal funds and resources in program stewardship and oversight.

Transportation Performance Management and Asset Management - Enhanced understanding of infrastructure performance, improved goal oriented investment decision making, improved risk-based asset management practices, and increased transparency regarding the performance of

Federal-aid funding.

The objective of this requirement is to secure a streamlined method of acquiring professional engineering and general administrative services to support the mission and related activities of the

HIF, its partners, and customers. The contractor would provide technical engineering, publication, marketing and professional support services as needed in a variety of transportation topics.

The HIF Program frequently requires the services of subject matter experts, marketing experts, technical writers, and other professionals for a variety of assignments in support of their programs. This includes but is not limited to assistance with policy/regulatory development and analysis, analysis of program delivery approaches, program evaluations, feasibility studies, white papers, development of technical 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, and marketing and communication strategies/activities such as videos, technical briefs, manuals, articles, brochures, and outreach to industry. The ability to react quickly to changes in funding and objectives is an important need as is the ability to secure technical expertise in diverse sets of fields related to the

HIF program areas.

Expertise areas required may include the following:

• Transportation Asset Management;

• Pavement Preservation;

• Economic Analysis Tools and Data;

• Life Cycle Cost Analysis;

• Risk Assessment;

• Pavement Management Systems;

• Asset Management and Transportation Planning Issues;

• Trade-off Analysis;

• Data Integration;

• Data Collection and Analysis;

• Data and Metadata Management including Data Mining and Data Warehousing;

• Database Management;

• Road Inventory Infrastructure Management;

• Civil Integrated Management;

• 3D/4D/5D/6D Modeling;

• Innovating Contracting and Project Delivery;

• Construction Management, Means and Methods;

• Intelligent Compaction;

• Automated Machine Guidance;

• Intelligent Construction Systems and Technologies;

• Construction Materials (asphalt, concrete, structural steel, fiber reinforced polymers, aluminum, etc.);

• Work Zone Safety and Traffic Control;

• Construction Safety;

• Asset Inspection;

• Bridges;

• Bridge Program Management;

• Bridge Preservation;

• Tunnels;

• Hydraulic and Geotechnical Engineering

• Accelerated Construction;

• Accelerated Bridge Construction,

• Federal Aid Highway Program Administration (strategic, risk- and performance-based stewardship and oversight approach) and;

• Other technical areas related to the planning, design, construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure.

Additional work requirement includes the ability to provide the following administrative and technical support services:

• Develop, implement and track work plans;

• Distribute information through traditional mailing lists electronic media (e.g. CD-ROM, internet, and telecommunications);

• Prepare technical material for internet publishing;

• Coordinate monthly review meetings of HIAP staff to discuss program status, project progress, identify potential problems and possible solutions;

• Provide technical assistance in convening meetings, workshops and other technology transfer events;

• Arrange travel for participants at meetings;

• Track and report financial expenditures, and;

• Other non-personal administrative functions such as the following:

- generating annual work plans and tracking the progress and financial expenditures associated with program work plans;

- conducting virtual meetings or webinars using Adobe Connect or similar software;

- making travel arrangements in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR).

The Contractor shall provide personnel with special qualifications for subject matter expertise and provide individual resumes for those people proposed to be assigned to work under the contract. Resumes must provide sufficient description of prior work experience and education or training to adequately perform the work anticipated.

The estimated dollar value of the required services is $19M. The primary North American

Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541330 – Engineering Services with a size standard of $15M. This requirement will be solicited Full and Open with two contracts reserved for Small Businesses. The period of performance is anticipated to be 60 months.

The procurement will be competitively awarded using Source Selection (FAR 15.3) procedures.

The objective of the Source Selection Process is to select proposals that represents the best value to the Government. Evaluation factors for award will consist of Technical Capabilities, Past

Performance, and Cost/Price. The best value to the Government based on these factors will determine award. The solicitation will be available on or about July 12, 2018.

The Government reserves the right to make an award on initial offers, but discussions may be held, if appropriate. The solicitation cited above can only be obtained by accessing the secure website, FedBizOpps (FBO). FedBizOpps is designed to safeguard sensitive but unclassified

(SBU) acquisition information and is fully integrated with other electronic Government initiatives, including the System for Award Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov). Registration in both SAM and FedBizOpps is required in order to download solicitation documents and is used to validate vendor identity. Contractors not registering in these systems will be ineligible to download the solicitation and ineligible for an award.

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