Sources Sought Notice_693JJ924RQ000195.pdf

Sources Sought: 693JJ924RQ000195 Title: New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Rollover Static Stability Factor (SSF)

Measurements

Action Code: Sources Sought

Classification Code: H223 - Equipment and Materials Testing

Solicitation: 693JJ924RQ000195

Agency/Office: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Location: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ

NAICS Code: 541380 - Testing Laboratories $19.0M

Point of Contract: Vincent Lynch, Contracting Officer, ph (202) 366-9568

Title: New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Rollover Static Stability Factor (SSF) Measurements

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, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein to provide analytical and statistical support to NHTSA .

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 in the attached draft SOW. 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; no formal evaluation of the information received will be conducted by NHTSA.

NHTSA may; however later on issue a Request for Proposals (RFP). However, should such a requirement fail to materialize, no basis for claims against NHTSA shall arise as a result of a response to this notice.

Background:

The New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is a consumer information program. Its major goal is to provide consumers with relative safety ratings information to assist them in their vehicle purchasing decisions. To accomplish this, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) releases NCAP test results to the public as quickly as possible after vehicles are tested so that consumers can use this information when selecting a new vehicle to purchase. Federal law requires new passenger vehicles to be labeled with safety ratings information published by NHTSA. The work described herein will allow NCAP to meet the Federal requirements by

Sources Sought: 693JJ924RQ000195 Title: New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Rollover Static Stability Factor (SSF)

Measurements generating the test data that will be used to assign rollover resistance ratings to new vehicles.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)'s New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) program has published comparative consumer information on frontal crashworthiness of new vehicles since 1979, on side crashworthiness since 1997, and on rollover resistance since January 2001 (66 FR 3388). At that time, rollover resistance rating was assigned to a vehicle based solely on a vehicle's Static Stability Factor (SSF), which is the ratio of one half its track width to its center of gravity (e.g.) height. Beginning with the 2004 model year, information derived from dynamic rollover testing has been factored in with the SSF in calculations that determine a vehicle's rollover resistance rating. The testing and data gathering described in this contract will allow NHTSA to continue the agency's existing rollover resistance rating program.

Objective:

The Contractor shall provide all facilities, services, materials, supplies, and equipment (except Government-Furnished Property (GFP)) necessary to perform Static Stability Factor (SSF) measurements for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) vehicles.

Capabilities:

The corporate capability statement must address the capabilities necessary to accomplish the scope outlined above as well as the additional tasks and characteristics given in the attached draft

SOW.

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 the type and size of their business organization is in-line with the requirements of this Sources Sought Notice, and must be received no later than the closing date for responses to this notice.