Attachment J.1.pdf

Title: Law Enforcement Traffic Safety Initiatives IDIQ

Attachment J.1

(a) Hypothetical Task

LOT A: Traffic Safety Initiatives and Countermeasures

The response to this hypothetical task order is limited to a brief description of project requirements of no more than fifteen (15) pages (total, for all four requirements described below). The response should provide details about each requirement outlined in detail below, a list of staff members/labor categories involved, and an estimate of the number of hours required to complete the task or other operating support that might be required to complete the project (e.g., materials, equipment, printing, travel, subcontracts). This project is hypothetical, and there are no plans to fund this task under the scope of this effort. The focus of the task is on the development of a traffic safety initiative or countermeasure intervention demonstration project in an identified traffic safety area of concern as documented through literature or data findings.

TASK: Demonstration Project: Development of Traffic Safety Initiatives and Countermeasures Intervention Project

Background NHTSA has identified that driving patterns and behaviors reported both in 2020 and 2021 have significantly changed from previous years and drivers on the road engage in more risky behaviors, including speeding, failing to wear seatbelts, and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. After the first quarter of 2021, it is projected that fatalities continue to increase going from 7,900 in 2020 to 8,730 in 2021, a projected 10.5% increase in just one year, during the same time period. These increases in fatalities are even more alarming as the nation continued to see decreases in VMT of about 14.9 billion miles or a 2.1-percent decrease as compared to the same time in 2020, meaning that Americans are spending less time on the roadway but crashing exponentially more often. These issues elevate NHTSA’s concern regarding the trending traffic safety culture and the ongoing public health epidemic that lead to an unnecessary tragic loss of life and injury on our nation’s roadways.

NHTSA firmly believes that motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries could be significantly reduced if strategies to reduce risky driving behaviors were widely adopted and implemented across the United States. NHTSA seeks innovative demonstration strategies to transform the current driving culture and to revolutionize the way we live and travel.

The objective of this project is to create a demonstration safety countermeasure to assist NHTSA in addressing its mission of saving lives, preventing injuries, and reducing economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement. The demonstration project must focus on an identified traffic safety area of concern in the enforcement community (i.e., law enforcement or other regulatory enforcement efforts) that is substantiated through data or literature for implementation and evaluation.

Some areas of concern for NHTSA in the enforcement community (i.e., law enforcement or other regulatory enforcement efforts) include but are not limited, alcohol and drug-impaired driving, aggressive driving, distracted driving, drowsy/fatigued driving, graduated driver licensing laws, motorcycle safety, occupant protection, pedestrian safety, speeding and speed management, or other areas as substantiated through supporting data that identify the need.

Biennially, NHTSA releases its “Countermeasures that Work: A Highway Safety Countermeasures Guide for State Highway Safety Offices”. This document is a compendium of programs with proven value but also outlines areas where more work is needed. The reference to the compendium is only one example of where offerors could seek information regarding areas that concern the government.

The Offeror should discuss how it would identify the need for developing and conducting a demonstration traffic safety project with the following requirements:

The Offeror shall detail its approach to assure it covers the following requirements:

Requirement 1: Identify a traffic safety initiative.

The Offeror shall identify a current, relevant traffic safety area of concern for conducting an initiative that is either a new initiative or fills a gap in an existing initiative.

Requirement 2: Analyze existing data on characteristics of crashes involving the identified traffic initiative to define and substantiate the need.

The Offeror shall review the literature or other relevant data to obtain evidence that outlines the need to address the identified traffic safety area of concern. Provide detail on the characteristics of crashes and rationale for their inclusion, that will be the intended focus for its demonstration project. The Offeror shall identify and explicitly describe the intended audience(s) of the demonstration project. The Offeror shall discuss potential barriers that you foresee could impact your proposed demonstration project.

Requirement 3: Develop a plan to conduct a traffic safety demonstration project.

The offeror shall describe the innovative demonstration strategies planned and how you will conduct the intervention with the intent of transforming the current driving culture. Utilize the outputs from requirement 1 & 2 to write Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic, and Timebound/time-phased (SMART)5 objective(s) to describe the project intentions. Provide a plan that explains how you intend to develop and conduct (implement) the traffic safety demonstration project. Include a project workplan or work breakdown structure that outlines specific tasks and identifies milestones and deliverables. Reflect in your proposal if there is a need to collaborate with other organizations or agencies and the role, they would play in completing the work. Consider if any travel is anticipated or will be required to complete the work.

Requirement 4: Collect and analyze data to evaluate the traffic safety demonstration project.

The Offeror shall collect and analyze data to evaluate the traffic safety demonstration project to allow others to replicate the work. Consideration should be given to the following when assessing the demonstration project: process and impact measurers; limitations of the intervention; conclusions that could be drawn from conducting the intervention. Report the results.

5 CDC, (2018). Evaluation briefs: writing smart objectives. No. 3b. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/evaluation/pdf/brief3b.pdf

Period of performance The period of performance for this project is thirty-six (36) months.

Cost Estimate Offerors should submit an estimate of costs to complete this project. NHTSA will not hold the Offeror responsible after contract award for the Offeror’s cost projection for the hypothetical task; rather, the Government will use the cost estimate as part of the proposal evaluation process.

Offerors should price this effort in a realistic manner to successfully meet the project objective while also being aware of the Government’s need to work in a cost-conscience manner.

• Labor Categories: Identify the labor categories, and the number of hours for each labor category that would be required for this effort.

(b) Hypothetical Task

LOT B: Education and Training Efforts

In order to provide an additional basis for evaluating the technical capability of the offeror, the offeror shall include a response in its proposal to a project described here for Lot B, Education and Training Efforts. While these projects are hypothetical, the government may opt to award tasks under the scope of this effort.

The response to this hypothetical task order is limited to a brief description of project requirements of no more than fifteen (15) pages (total, for all four requirements described below). The response should provide details about each requirement outlined in detail below, a list of staff members/labor categories involved, and an estimate of the number of hours required to complete the task or other operating support that might be required to complete the project (e.g., materials, equipment, printing, travel, subcontracts). This project is hypothetical, and there are no plans to fund this task under the scope of this effort. The focus of the task is on the development of a traffic safety education and training demonstration project in an identified traffic safety area of concern as documented through literature or data findings.

TASK: Traffic Safety Education and Training Project

NHTSA supports the development of educational resource materials and training materials. It seeks Offerors with experience in preparing educational resource materials or trainings to assist individuals in the transportation/highway safety field at the national, state, and local levels. Resulting educational resource materials or trainings are to support NHTSA in reducing traffic crashes and in improving highway safety programming efforts.

Some areas of concern for NHTSA in the enforcement community (i.e., law enforcement or other regulatory enforcement efforts) include but are not limited to, alcohol and drug-impaired driving, aggressive driving, distracted driving, drowsy/fatigued driving, graduated driver licensing laws, motorcycle safety, occupant protection, pedestrian safety, speeding and speed management, or other areas as substantiated through supporting data that identify the need.

Biennially, NHTSA releases its “Countermeasures that Work: A Highway Safety Countermeasures Guide for State Highway Safety Offices”. This document is a compendium of programs with proven value but also outlines areas where more work is needed. The reference to the compendium is only one example of where offerors could seek information regarding areas that concern the government.

The Offeror should discuss how it would identify the need for developing and conducting a traffic safety education or training project in the enforcement community (i.e., law enforcement or other regulatory enforcement efforts).

The Offeror shall detail its approach to assure it covers the following requirements:

Objectives for this Task

Requirement 1: Identify a traffic safety initiative.

The Offeror shall identify a current, relevant traffic safety area of concern for conducting an initiative that is either a new initiative or fills a gap in an existing initiative.

Requirement 2: Analyze existing literature or data to define and substantiate the need for the development of educational resource materials or training curricula.

The Offeror shall review the literature or other relevant data to obtain evidence that outlines the need to address the identified traffic safety area of concern. Use the data or emerging issues/trends/changes in society to support the development of current, relevant traffic safety educational resource materials or training curricula related to an area of concern.

The Offeror shall identify and explicitly describe the intended audience(s) that will be recipients of the educational resource or training curricula. The Offeror shall discuss potential barriers that you foresee could impact your proposed demonstration project for Lot B.

Requirement 3: Develop a plan to develop traffic safety materials or training curricula.

The offeror shall describe the innovative demonstration strategies planned and how you will conduct the intervention with the intent of transforming the current driving culture. Utilize the outputs from requirement 1 & 2 to write Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic, and Timebound/time-phased (SMART)6 objective(s) to describe the project intentions. Provide a plan that explains how you intend to develop and conduct (implement) the traffic safety demonstration project. Include a project workplan or work breakdown structure that outlines specific tasks and identifies milestones and deliverables. Reflect in your proposal if there is a need to collaborate with other organizations or agencies and the role, they would play in completing the work. Consider if any travel is anticipated or will be required to complete the work.

Requirement 4: Collect and analyze data to evaluate the traffic safety materials or curriculum.

The Offeror shall collect and analyze data to evaluate the traffic safety materials or training curricula developed to allow others to replicate the work. Consideration should be given to the following when assessing the proposed education and training project: process and impact measurers; limitations or other outputs resulting from the development of the traffic safety materials or training curricula. Report the results.

Cost Estimate Offerors should submit an estimate of costs to complete this project. NHTSA will not hold the Offeror responsible after contract award for the Offeror’s cost projection for the hypothetical task; rather, the Government will use the cost estimate as part of the proposal evaluation process.

Offerors should price this effort in a realistic manner to successfully meet the project objective while also being aware of the Government’s need to work in a cost-conscience manner.

6 CDC, (2018). Evaluation briefs: writing smart objectives. No. 3b. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/evaluation/pdf/brief3b.pdf

• Labor Categories: Identify the labor categories, and the number of hours for each labor category that would be required for this effort.

(c) Hypothetical Task

LOT C: Traffic Safety Research and Development to Address Emerging Issues

In order to provide an additional basis for evaluating the technical capability of the offeror, the offeror shall include a response in its proposal to a project described here for Lot C, Research and Development to address Emerging Issues. While these projects are hypothetical, the government may opt to award tasks under the scope of this effort.

The response to this hypothetical task order is limited to a brief description of project requirements of no more than fifteen (15) pages (total, for all four requirements described below). The response should provide details about each requirement outlined in detail below, a list of staff members/labor categories involved, and an estimate of the number of hours required to complete the task or other operating support that might be required to complete the project (e.g., materials, equipment, printing, travel, subcontracts). This project is hypothetical, and there are no plans to fund this task under the scope of this effort. The focus of the task is on the development of a traffic safety research and development to address emerging issues demonstration project in an identified traffic safety area of concern as documented through literature or data findings.

TASK: Traffic Safety Research and Development to Address Emerging Issues

NHTSA has identified that driving patterns and behaviors reported both in 2020 and 2021 have significantly changed from previous years and drivers on the road engage in more risky behaviors, including speeding, failing to wear seatbelts, and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. After the first quarter of 2021, it is projected that fatalities continue to increase going from 7,900 in 2020 to 8,730 in 2021, a projected 10.5% increase in just one year, during the same time period. These increases in fatalities are even more alarming as the nation continued to see decreases in VMT of about 14.9 billion miles or a 2.1-percent decrease as compared to the same time in 2020, meaning that Americans are spending less time on the roadway but crashing exponentially more often. These issues elevate NHTSA’s concern regarding the trending traffic safety culture and the ongoing public health epidemic that have led to an unnecessary tragic loss of life and injury on our nation’s roadways.

NHTSA firmly believes that motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries could be significantly reduced if strategies to reduce risky driving behaviors were widely adopted and implemented across the United States. NHTSA seeks innovative research to transform the current driving culture and to revolutionize the way we live and travel.

The objective of this project is to create a traffic safety research and development, project, or other innovative project to address emerging issues to assist NHTSA in addressing its mission of saving lives, preventing injuries, and reducing economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement. The research and development project must focus on an identified traffic safety area of concern in the enforcement community (i.e., law enforcement or other regulatory enforcement efforts) that is substantiated through data or literature for implementation and evaluation.

Some areas of concern for NHTSA in the enforcement community (i.e., law enforcement or other regulatory enforcement efforts) include but are not limited to, alcohol and drug-impaired driving, aggressive driving, distracted driving, drowsy/fatigued driving, graduated driver licensing laws, motorcycle safety, occupant protection, pedestrian safety, speeding and speed management, or other areas as substantiated through supporting data that identify the need.

Biennially, NHTSA releases its “Countermeasures that Work: A Highway Safety Countermeasures Guide for State Highway Safety Offices”. This document is a compendium of programs with proven value but also outlines areas where more work is needed. The reference to the compendium is only one example of where offerors could seek information regarding areas that concern the government.

The Offeror should discuss how it would identify the need for developing and conducting a a research and development project in the enforcement community (i.e., law enforcement or other regulatory enforcement efforts):

The Offeror shall detail its approach to assure it covers the following requirements:

Objectives for this Task

Requirement 1: Identify a traffic safety initiative.

The Offeror shall identify a current, relevant traffic safety area of concern for conducting a research and development or emerging issues initiative that is either a new initiative or fills a gap in an existing initiative. Explain why the identified effort would be valuable for NHTSA in addressing an area of concern.

Requirement 2: Analyze existing literature or data to define and substantiate the need for the research, technology advancement or emerging issues intervention.

The Offeror shall review the literature or other relevant data to obtain evidence that outlines the need to address the identified traffic safety research and development area of concern.

Use the data or emerging issues/trends/changes in society to support the development of a current, relevant traffic safety research and development effort or emerging issue intervention related to an area of concern.

The offeror shall identify and explicitly describe the intended audience(s) of the research effort. The offeror shall discuss potential barriers that you foresee could impact your proposed demonstration project for Lot C.

Requirement 3: Develop a plan to develop the research, technology advancement or emerging issues intervention.

The offeror shall describe the innovative demonstration strategies planned and how you will conduct the intervention with the intent of transforming the current driving culture. Utilize the outputs from requirement 1 & 2 to write Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic, and Timebound/time-phased (SMART)7 objective(s) to describe the project intentions. Provide a plan that explains how you intend to develop and conduct (implement) the traffic safety research effort. Include a project workplan or work breakdown structure that outlines specific tasks and identifies milestones and deliverables. Reflect in your proposal if there is a need to collaborate with other organizations or agencies and the role they would play in

7 CDC, (2018). Evaluation briefs: writing smart objectives. No. 3b. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/evaluation/pdf/brief3b.pdf completing the work. If a research project is being proposed include plans to collect adequate data to support analyses, as well as a description of the data acquisition system, independent and dependent variables, and planned analyses. Consider if human subjects approval processes will be needed (e.g., OMB clearances, IRB, privacy assessments). Define sampling strategies or define appropriate sample sizes. Include a research methodology that includes a recruitment strategy, analytic approach (e.g., statistical analysis plan, quantitative/qualitative or other analytic methods or modeling approach). Include a research findings dissemination plan. Consider if any travel is anticipated or will be required to complete the work.

Requirement 4: Collect and analyze data to evaluate the traffic safety demonstration project.

The Offeror shall provide a plan to collect and analyze data to evaluate the traffic safety research and development project that would allow others to replicate the work.

Consideration should be given to the following when developing the research project:

process, impact and outcome measurers; limitations or other outputs resulting from the development of the traffic safety intervention. Report the results.

Cost Estimate Offerors should submit an estimate of costs to complete this project. NHTSA will not hold the Offeror responsible after contract award for the Offeror’s cost projection for the hypothetical task; rather, the Government will use the cost estimate as part of the proposal evaluation process.

Offerors should price this effort in a realistic manner to successfully meet the project objective while also being aware of the Government’s need to work in a cost-conscience manner.

• Labor Categories: Identify the labor categories, and the number of hours for each labor category that would be required for this effort. Offerors may propose different or additional labor categories with justification.