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General Services Administration

Federal Acquisition Service

Contract Number: GS-00F-354CA

Contract Period: 9/30/2020 to 9/29/2025

Price List current as of Modification #PS-0033 effective September 22, 2022 and #PA-0035 effective October 5, 2022.

Research Triangle Institute

3040 East Cornwallis Road

Research Triangle Park, NC 22709-0155 USA

Business Size: Other than Small

Phone: 919.541.6000

Fax: 919.316.3911 GSA@rti.org

Contractor Contract Administrator:

Kellyn Cassell

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Table of Contents

Commitment to Our Clients

General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule Service Categories

Professional and Management Services 541611 Management and Financial Consulting, Acquisition and Grants Management Support, and Business

Program and Project Management Services

611430 Professional and Management Development Training

541380 Testing Laboratory Services

541420 Engineering System Design and Integration Services

541715 Engineering Research and Development and Strategic Planning

541620 Environmental Consulting Services

541613 Marketing Consulting Services

541850 Exhibit Design and Advertising Services

541910 Marketing Research and Analysis

54151S Information Technology Professional Services

Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS)

Order-Level Materials (OLMs)

The RTI Difference

The RTI Difference

The RTI Difference Federal agencies need a partner experienced in the federal workspace to provide objective, evidence-based research and technical assistance.

RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition.

Our vision is to address the world’s most critical problems with solutions in pursuit of a better future. Clients rely on us to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach—one that integrates expertise across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering, and international development fields.

RTI believes in the promise of science for our clients, and we strive daily to deliver evidence-based solutions for the good of people, communities, and businesses around the world.

Our experts hold advanced degrees in more than 250 scientific, technical, and professional disciplines. Our staff of nearly 6,000 work in more than 75 countries—tackling hundreds of projects each year to address complex challenges on behalf of governments, businesses, foundations, academic institutions, and others.

Our dedication to conducting innovative, objective research and technical services makes RTI an outstanding partner for clients around the world.

RTI at a Glance Unbiased Research Partner

• RTI is a nonprofit research institute that is not bound to owners, shareholders, or a specific advocacy position.

One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies

• Recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2020

• One of two honorees in the scientific and technical services category in 2020

$1.078B FY2021 Revenue

1,259 FY2021 Clients

3,977 FY2021 Projects

U.S. Offices

International Offices

5,893 Staff Worldwide

The RTI Difference

Practice Areas

Health

• Public Health and Well-Being

• Health Care Transformation

• Behavioral Health

• Health Behavior Change

• Precision Medicine

Education and Workforce Development

• Early Childhood Education

• K–12 Education

• Postsecondary Education

• Career and Workforce Development

• Education Policy, Systems, and Governance

International Development

• Energy and Development

• Environment and Water Resilience

• Global Food, Security, Agriculture, and Nutrition

• Global Health

• Governance

• International Education

• Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting

• Youth and Economic Opportunity

Energy Research

• Carbon Capture and Utilization

• Biomass Conversion

• Natural Gas

• Energy Efficiency

• Industrial Water

• Syngas Processing

Health

• Public Health and Well-being

• Health Care Transformation

• Behavioral Health

• Health Behavior Change

• Precision Medicine

Education and Workforce Development

• Early Childhood

• K-12 Education

• Postsecondary Education

• Career and Workforce

Development

• Education Policy, Systems, and

Governance

International Development

• Energy and Development

• Environment and Water

Resilience

• Global Food, Security, Agriculture, and Nutrition

• Global Health

• Governance

• International Education

• Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and

Adapting

• Youth and Economic

Opportunity

Energy Research

• Carbon Capture and Utilization

• Biomass Conversion

• Natural Gas

• Energy Efficiency

• Industrial Water

• Syngas Processing

Environmental Sciences

• Air Quality

• Water Resources

• Waste Management

• Chemical and Microbial

Substances

• Climate Change

Social and Justice Policy

• Community Safety and Crime

Prevention

• Policing Research and

Investigative Science

• Crime and Corrections

• Child Well-Being and Family

Strengthening

Food Security and Agriculture

• Market Systems Strengthening

• Food Safety

• Food and Nutrition

• Climate-Smart Agriculture

• Agriculture Innovation

• Obesity Prevention

Social and Justice Policy

• Innovation Advisors

• Innovation for Economic

Growth

• Innovation for Emerging and

Developing Economies

• Innovation for Organizations

• Research, Technology, and

Innovation Policy

Environmental Sciences

• Air Quality

• Water Resources

• Waste Management

• Chemical and Microbial Substances

• Climate Change

Social and Justice Policy

• Community Safety and Crime Prevention

• Policing Research and Investigative Science

• Crime and Corrections

• Child Well-Being and Family Strengthening

Food Security and Agriculture

• Market Systems Strengthening

• Food Safety

• Food and Nutrition

• Climate-Smart Agriculture

• Agriculture Innovation

• Obesity Prevention

Social and Justice Policy

• Innovation Advisors

• Innovation for Economic Growth

• Innovation for Emerging and Developing Economies

• Innovation for Organizations

• Research, Technology, and Innovation Policy

The RTI Difference

Commitment to Our Clients As a client of RTI International, you will have a partner that provides scientific rigor and solid project management to deliver your solution on time and on budget.

We approach each project as a partnership and draw on our expansive network to assemble multidisciplinary teams with the targeted expertise to comprehensively analyze and uniquely address client challenges.

Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs) allow federal clients to provide only limited feedback on our project performance. That is why RTI implemented our interactive Client Listening Program.

RTI project leaders solicit client feedback at key points during a project and as needed, such as after the kickoff meeting or after the provision of a key deliverable.

These brief questionnaires were designed to be completed within 2 to 3 minutes. Although the process is fast, the results are long-lasting. This feedback helps target our focus, recognize what we are doing well, and identify how we can improve our value to our clients. All completed questionnaires are reviewed by RTI management.

In addition, RTI leaders regularly conduct internal project reviews, analyze CPARs, and meet one-on-one with clients.

Quality

RTI’s commitment to quality is reflected in our objectivity and professional integrity, our innovation, and our scientific and technical leadership. It is the foundation of our past success and the cornerstone on which we are building our future.

–Wayne Holden, President/CEO, RTI International

All RTI employees are responsible for ensuring that their work adheres to RTI’s quality, integrity, and ethical standards.

RTI’s overarching quality management structure includes a corporate Quality Leadership Team that drives the strategic goals of the Quality Program.

• Members of the Quality Leadership Team are appointed by the Chief Operating Officer and approved by the President and Chief Executive Officer. The Team monitors and coordinates quality efforts across the organization.

• Each RTI Business Unit features designated quality leaders who implement these quality systems within their respective lines of business, share best practices, and communicate progress to the Corporate Leadership Team.

2020 Client Experience Excellence Award

• RTI was awarded a Premier Award for Client Satisfaction for “demonstrating a commitment to giving clients a voice as a means to deliver excellent service, and confirmation from clients that service was, indeed, excellent.”

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The RTI Difference

ISO 9001 and CMMI Appraisal RTI’s Research Computing Division has been certified at ISO 9001 and appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) for development; our quality management system guarantees that our products and services meet or exceed our customers’ needs and satisfy applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.

CMMI® V2.0 / Exp. 20 24-0 1-25 / Appraisal # 51429

The RTI Difference

Partnerships

Academic and Research Institutions Founded by academic institutions in 1958, RTI has a long history of collaboration with faculty, staff, and students at research universities, extending our capabilities to better serve our clients and contribute to scholarship.

• Six universities are represented on RTI’s Board of Governors.

• The RTI University Scholars Program provides partial financial support for distinguished academic researchers to spend scholarly leave time to collaborate with our experts.

• RTI’s robust Internship Program places a premium on creating opportunities for hands-on experience and engaged learning for students and recent degree recipients.

We also maintain close and diverse collaborations with our founding universities—North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University—as well as historically black colleges and universities, such as North Carolina Central University and North Carolina A&T State University.

SAS

RTI has partnered with SAS to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges by offering innovative services to government agencies and other organizations. SAS and RTI combined have more than 100 years of expertise in research and analytics.

This partnership will further strengthen and improve service to clients with comprehensive solutions that feature subject matter expertise, scientific rigor, advanced analytics, and technical and software products. Combining talented people with powerful software will generate focused data insights to meet our customers’ greatest needs.

Controlling and Eliminating Seven Neglected Tropical Diseases in Low-Income Countries

Through the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Envision project, RTI has supported the distribution of 1.4 billion medications (worth $16.2 billion) that were donated by major pharmaceutical companies to treat neglected tropical diseases. More than 230 million people are no longer at risk of lymphatic filariasis, and more than 86 million people have been spared from the risk of trachoma.

The RTI Difference

U.S. Government

• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

• Department of Homeland Security

• General Services Administration

• U.S. Agency for International Development

• U.S. Department of Agriculture

• U.S. Department of Commerce

• U.S. Department of Education

• U.S. Department of Energy

• U.S. Department of Defense

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

– Administration for Children and Families

– Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

– Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

– Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

– Food and Drug Administration

– Health Resources and Services Administration

– National Institutes of Health

– Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

– Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

– Office of the Secretary

– Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

• U.S. Department of Justice

• U.S. Department of State

• U.S. Department of the Interior

• U.S. Department of Transportation https://www.rti.org/ GSA@rti.org 919.541.6000

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General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule Service Categories RTI International offers a diverse set of technical and scientific capabilities across a broad range of scientific disciplines through the U.S. General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule.

Service Categories

SIN SIN Description

Professional and Management Services

541611 Management and Financial Consulting, Acquisition and Grants Management Support, and Business Program and Project Management Services

611430 Professional and Management Development Training

Engineering Services

541330ENG Engineering Services

541380 Testing Laboratory Services

541420 Engineering System Design and Integration Services

541715 Engineering Research and Development and Strategic Planning

Environmental Services

541370GIS Geographic Information Systems Services

541620 Environmental Consulting Services

Advertising, Communications, and Marketing Services

512110 Video/Film Production

541613 Marketing Consulting Services

541810ODC Other Direct Costs for Marketing and Public Relations Services

541850 Exhibit Design and Advertising Services

541910 Marketing Research and Analysis

Information Technology Services

54151HEAL Health Information Technology Services

54151S Information Technology Professional Services https://www.rti.org/contact-us

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Professional and Management Services

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541611 Management and Financial Consulting, Acquisition and Grants Management Support, and Business Program and Project Management Services

Federal programs are often complex, requiring skilled expertise to meet technical requirements and an established infrastructure to meet contractual requirements. RTI International offers both—in house, in place, and ready for your research or technical assistance project.

RTI administers and manages projects on behalf of a range of clients, including government agencies, academic institutions, foundations, global nongovernmental organizations, and commercial companies. Examples include the following:

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

– Helps develop and implement the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which supports activities in 28 sectors of manufacturing, energy production, mining, and landfill operations.

• U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice

– Leads the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence. Offers expertise across forensic disciplines and a robust infrastructure that includes laboratory sciences, criminal justice operations, web-based training, data collection, and technology assessment.

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)

– Co-leads the RTI-UNC Evidence-based Practice Center, which conducts systematic reviews of drugs, devices, policies, and interventions for a variety of health care topics.

• Administration for Community Living, Administration on Aging

– Leads the National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center, which provides individualized technical assistance, reports, and other resources to programs that work to improve services to people with dementia and their caregivers.

RTI combines the intellectual talents of leading scientists and experts across key practice areas globally to address complex scientific and social challenges.

Provide operating advice and assistance on administrative and management issues.

Examples include strategic and organizational planning, business process improvement, acquisition and grants management support, facilitation, surveys, assessment and improvement of financial management systems, financial reporting and analysis, due diligence in validating an agency’s portfolio of assets and related support services, strategic financial planning, financial policy formulation and development, special cost studies, actuarial services, economic and regulatory analysis, benchmarking and program metrics, and business program and project management.

Why RTI?

• Financial and contractual systems designed for federal clients, ensuring accuracy and compliance with specifications

• Internal multidisciplinary expertise, providing a single resource to meet technical and scientific requirements

• Independent, mission-driven research, providing an unbiased, objective approach to projects

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Capabilities

• Business process improvement

• Digital solutions

• Drug discovery

• Economic and regulatory analysis

• Facilitation of meetings, events, and workshops

• Grants management support

• Human research protection

• Implementation science

• Needs assessment

• Policy formulation

• Program design and implementation

• Program management

• Project management

• Research technology

• Statistical analysis

• Strategic and organizational planning

• Survey administration

Practice Areas

• Education and Workforce Development

• Energy Research

• Environmental Sciences

• Food Security and Agriculture

• Health

• Innovation Ecosystems

• Social and Justice Policy

Program Management

• RTI leads a consortium of 18 partner organizations on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense to deliver science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach programming to more than 45,000 K–16 students and educators annually.

Implementing the Most Comprehensive Drug Use and Behavioral Health Study in the United States

Since 1988, RTI has worked with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to conduct the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and research the nature, extent, and consequences of substance use and related mental health issues in the United States. Our role has included study design collaboration;

questionnaire development and programming; sample selection and weighting; data collection, processing, and analysis; data file preparation; and reporting. Using complex, computer-based questionnaires, we successfully administer more than 67,000 interviews nationwide for each annual iteration of NSDUH.

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RTI Research Operations Center RTI offers research data collection and management services through our in-house, access-controlled Research Operations Center. We deploy sophisticated systems and processes for interviewing, quality monitoring, respondent locating, sample mapping, data capture, and fulfillment. Our capabilities include the following:

• High-capacity telephone survey

– 240 networked telephone interview stations

– 450 data collection specialists

– 40 supervisors

– Multiple shifts, 7 days/week

– Unlimited virtual interviewing capacity

– Data collection in seven languages

• Compliant with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Recommended Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations

• Support for low- and moderate-risk projects

• Multilingual computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI)

• Training in critical interviewer skills

• Real-time and post-survey quality monitoring

Our centralized survey capabilities are complemented by a nationally distributed, home-based workforce. Across our survey projects, RTI employs approximately 1,800 trained interviewers and supervisors located in all U.S. time zones.

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611430 Professional and Management Development Training

Federal agencies need flexibility in today’s ever-changing development and training programs. Do students need in-person training? Is online training effective? How are technologies like virtual reality incorporated into a training program? Who manages the myriad pre- and post-training activities, such as registration and certification?

RTI International’s instructional designers, eLearning developers, and educators are professional trainers experienced in creating online and blended training deliverables that promote knowledge transfer, skills acquisition, and information sharing for a variety of learners and disciplines.

We have the creative ability and technical knowledge to develop and deliver a turnkey experience for on-site and online events by facilitating every aspect of a training opportunity, including the following:

• Archival and on-demand content hosting

• Certification and continuing education credits

• Event performance summary reporting

• Live event hosting and moderating

• Participant satisfaction reporting

• Pre- and post-event demographics and reporting

• Promotional newsletters

• Recording and transcription

• Registration management and reporting

• Subject matter expert guidance and support

• Testing

Services include offering an array of short duration courses and seminars for management and professional development.

Training for career development may be provided directly to individuals or through employers’ training programs, and courses may be customized or modified to meet the special needs of customers.

Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment’s or agency’s training facilities, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods.

The training provided may include the use of simulators and simulation methods.

Examples include Training Services that are instructor led, Training or Web Based Training of Education Courses, Course Development and Test Administration, Learning Management, and Internships; Environmental Training Services in order to meet Federal mandates and Executive Orders; training of agency personnel to deal with media and media responses; Logistics Training Services related to system operations, automated tools for supply and value chain management, property and inventory management, distribution and transportation management, and maintenance of equipment and facilities; and Audit & Financial training services related to course development and instruction required to support audit, review, financial assessment, and financial management activities.

Why RTI?

• Certified Government Meeting Professionals, ensuring compliance with federal rules and regulations for government meetings

• In-house technical support staff, providing timely responsiveness before, during, and after sessions

• RTI-supported hosting technologies, including Adobe Connect, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom, simplifying logistics of online events

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Capabilities

• Provide full-service task management, from planning and budgeting through content development and production.

• Develop user personas, learning objectives, content, practice exercises, scenarios, and animation that support the principles of adult learning theory.

• Produce engaging virtual modules and micro-trainings that include audio, video, animation, and quiz components.

• Create job aids and resources—such as user guides, checklists, and infographics— to support online products and provide convenient access to key information.

• Provide reporting of key data on user access, navigation, and completion of module exercises.

• Manage instructor-led trainings, including facility identification and set-up, and the following:

– Use detailed budgeting and monitoring processes to provide a clear overview of options and expenditures.

– Negotiate contracts to ensure the best rates for hotel accommodations and event space in your preferred location.

– Employ targeted marketing practices that use social and digital media to engage participants and enhance attendance.

– Conduct comprehensive evaluation design, analysis, and reporting capabilities to assess your event’s effectiveness.

• Manage web-based trainings, including the following:

– Recommend appropriate delivery and engagement platforms to meet audience and budgetary needs.

– Coordinate production of pre-event requirements, including customized event registration pages, presenter practice sessions, on-site audio/visual assets, and content development.

– Facilitate event delivery from any location through RTI-supported hosting technologies.

– Provide backend support to enhance meetings with breakout sessions, chat, and Q&A features and address technical issues quickly and seamlessly to minimize their impact.

– Deliver customized event reporting to capture data on registration, attendance, and interactivity.

Practice Areas

• Environmental Sciences

• Law Enforcement

• Professional Development

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) https://www.rti.org/ https://www.rti.org/practice-area/education-and-workforce-development https://www.rti.org/centers/education-services

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Engineering Services

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541330ENG Engineering Services

If your engineering or technology challenge requires deep technical expertise, pragmatic scientific and program leadership, and a multifaceted approach, contact RTI International today to learn more about how we can help.

RTI assembles multifunctional teams with expertise in materials science, process engineering, and electronics, and leverages close working relationships with industrial, academic, and national laboratories to support a diverse set of translational research and scale-up projects.

Capabilities

• Concept development

• Feasibility studies

• Integrated logistics

• Requirements analysis

• Strategic planning

• Systems design, engineering, and integration

• Testing and evaluation

Practice Areas

• Advanced Materials

• Aerosol Exposure and Protection

• Biofuels and Sustainable Products

• Co Capture and Conversion

• Environmental Exposure and Protection

• Gas Separation and Conversion

• Health and Biomedical

• Industrial Water and Agriculture

Services include applying physical laws and principles of engineering in the design, development, and utilization of machines, materials, instruments, processes, and systems.

Services may involve any of the following activities: provision of advice, concept development, requirements analysis, preparation of feasibility studies, preparation of preliminary and final plans and designs, provision of technical services during the construction or installation phase, inspection and evaluation of engineering projects, and related services.

Why RTI?

• Multifunctional teams, reducing the need to outsource critical functions of the engineering process

• Multidisciplinary expertise, providing a single, holistic approach to your engineering project

PPE Production and Testing

• Building on its 40 years of aerosol research, RTI has formed a response team to support the rapid production of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Capabilities include evaluating aerosol and bioaerosol measurement, filtration efficiency, exposure, and contaminant transport.

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Hydrologic Risk Assessment

RTI uses advanced probabilistic hydrologic risk assessment methods to optimize risk quantification for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Dam Safety Program. We conduct storm and flood hazard probability analyses to simulate hydrologic and reservoir operation responses and develop hydrologic hazard curves. We also use hydraulic modeling, flood mapping, and consequence tools to perform dam failure consequence analyses to measure economic damage and loss of life. We apply similar advanced probabilistic approaches to assess long-term risk and vulnerability in water supply systems given highly uncertain future conditions. These services support risk-informed decision-making to enable TVA to focus their capital improvement efforts on the critical issues that are most likely to have significant consequences.

RTI Center for Water Resources

With advanced, information-based technology and solutions, RTI helps translate data into actionable information to strengthen water security and resilience against a backdrop of increasing demand, water scarcity, extreme weather events, and hydrologic uncertainty.

Communities are vulnerable not only to the direct impacts of flood and drought, but also to the indirect impact of infrastructure failure.

As a result, water managers must regularly assess the safety and reliability of their systems with tools to quantify risk and prioritize capital improvements.

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541380 Testing Laboratory Services

Whether your program requires customized assessment, development, and validation of methods; or a broad-spectrum analysis, RTI International has the expertise and resources necessary to identify and execute the optimal approach.

Our expertise spans the chemical and analytical sciences and includes physicochemical characterization, proficiency testing, regulatory compliance, and biomarkers and metabolomics analysis. Our scientists regularly collaborate in the health, biological, chemical, environmental, agricultural, and forensic sciences to address pressing societal and commercial needs.

Capabilities

Pre-Clinical and Clinical Analytical Services

• Characterization of metals

• Development and validation of bioanalytical methods

• High-throughput clinical sample analysis

• Impurity testing for inductively coupled, plasma-based metals

• Regulatory consulting

• Test article and dose concentration analysis

• Validation of methods for metals

Analytical Sciences

• Air and liquid particle counting

• Analysis of metals

• Characterization of complex chemicals

• Characterization and synthesis of metabolites

• Characterization of vaccines

• Chemical composition, structure, and morphology measurement

• Cleanroom facilities

• Contamination control and testing

Includes testing laboratory services and veterinary, natural, and life sciences;

testing services and laboratories; and other professional, scientific, and technical consulting services.

Testing and services include, but are not limited to, physical, chemical, analytical, or other testing services; quality assurance; fire safety inspections; training; safety audits; relying upon experimental, empirical, quantifiable data, relying on the scientific method, and professional services, tasks, and labor categories in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences, atmospheric science, oceanography, materials sciences, mathematics, geology, astronomy, veterinary medicine, statistics, systems science, etc. (excludes social and behavioral sciences).

Examples of labor categories include, but are not limited to, Scientific Researchers, Biologists, Physicists, Mathematicians, Statisticians, Research Engineers, Meteorologists, Lab Technicians, Veterinarians and Veterinary Services, Chemists, Biochemical Engineers, and Research Nurses.

Why RTI?

• Internal laboratories equipped to handle federal testing, reducing the need to outsource critical functions

• Expertise in multiple sciences and disciplines, providing a single resource for all your testing needs

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• Identification of unknowns

• Industrial forensics

• Industrial troubleshooting

• Materials handling facility

• Methods development

• Microscopy

• Novel biopesticides

• Proficiency testing

• Separations, spectroscopy, and physical testing

• Specialty formulation

• Trace analysis

• USP elemental impurity analysis

Compliance

• ANSI-ASQ ANAB reference material producer accreditation

• cGMP/GLP-compliant or R&D-type feasibility studies

• DEA Schedule of drug substances

• FDA Analytical Testing Facility

• IES and ASTM standards testing

Practice Areas

• Analytical Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

• Forensic Science

• Metabolomics

• Microbiology

• Physiochemical Characterizations

• Proficiency Testing and Reference Materials

• Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance

RTI’s Materials Handling Facility

This 6,000-gross-ft2 (557-m2), freestanding barrier facility has the capacity to safely handle and process large quantities of toxic and hazardous materials, including carcinogens, flammables, corrosives, and biohazards such as infectious agents and biotoxins. Designed and constructed to meet National Institutes of Health specifications, the facility offers a secure, well-ventilated, controlled environment for chemical processing, and supports dose formulation for large-scale animal studies.

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Services include creating and developing designs and specifications that optimize the use, value, and appearance of their products. These services can include determination of the materials, construction, mechanisms, shape, color, and surface finishes of the product, taking into consideration human characteristics and needs, safety, market appeal, and efficiency in production, distribution, use, and maintenance. Associated tasks include, but are not limited to, computer-aided design, e.g. CADD, risk reduction strategies and recommendations to mitigate identified risk conditions, fire modeling, performance-based design reviews, high level detailed specification and scope preparation, configuration, management and document control, fabrication, assembly and simulation, modeling, training, consulting, analysis of single or multi spacecraft missions and mission design analysis. NOTE: Services under this NAICs cannot include architect-engineer services as defined in the Brooks Act and FAR Part 2 or construction services as defined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 36 and Part 2.

541420 Engineering System Design and Integration Services

In well-established, competitive markets, public- and private-sector organizations and funding programs have been demanding new and innovative product concepts and prototypes at an ever-increasing rate. Many organizations face two major challenges to implementing these creative solutions: effectively converting them into useful products and services and doing so efficiently to meet market or social demand.

Taking complex products and technologies from the laboratory to the market is one of RTI International’s specialties.

We use our skills, resources, and collaborative spirit to help our clients drive their products and services from concept through development, manufacturing, marketing, and successful launch. With our uniquely broad subject matter expertise, we teach our partners how to utilize market forces and how to overcome gaps in expertise to accelerate the launch of a wide range of early-stage innovations into the marketplace.

Capabilities

• Assembly and simulation

• Computer-aided design

• Configuration

• Consulting

• Creating and developing designs and specifications that optimize the use, value, and appearance of products

• Determination of the materials, construction, and mechanisms of products

• Fabrication

• High-level, detailed specification and scope preparation

• Management and document control

• Modeling

Why RTI?

• Multifunctional teams

• Multidisciplinary experts

• In-house laboratory and testing facilities

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• Performance-based design reviews

• Risk assessment and reduction strategies and recommendations to mitigate identified risk conditions

• Training

Practice Areas

• Biomechanical

• Biomedical

• Energy

• Environment

• Health

• Mechanical

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RTI Advanced Smart Sensor Technology (ASSET)

RTI’s ASSET initiative integrates short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensors with unmanned aircraft to give researchers a low-cost alternative to collecting images and data in low-resource environments. SWIR sensors detect water, making them useful in agriculture, forestry, and a variety of other commercial and scientific applications, including the following:

• Controlling the spread of mosquito-borne viruses by identifying containers of standing water that could serve as breeding sites

• Developing more accurate predictions of food crop yields through advanced phenotyping of plants during their growing cycles

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RTI Rapid Risk Suite

The impacts of climate change, including the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, place stress on dams and other aging infrastructure. The ability of dam safety programs to identify dams at the highest risk of failure is a “must-have” and enables program managers and regulators to better prioritize investments and to ensure that the best possible decisions are made to maximize public safety and property protection.

The RTI Rapid Risk Suite simplifies portfolio risk assessment and infrastructure prioritization for dam safety organizations with features such as the following:

• Rapid hydrologic loading and consequences analyses

• Ability to scale for up to hundreds or thousands of dams

• More complete understanding of risk via probabilistic information

RTI Wearables Research and Analytics Platform (WRAP)

The widespread adoption of wearable technology has strengthened the ability of researchers to better understand and improve public health. RTI WRAP is an end-to-end research software platform that enables the collection of data via connected devices (e.g., Garmin, Fitbit) worn by research study participants. Our staff and clients can use RTI WRAP to streamline the entire wearable-based study lifecycle, including study design and safety/ethics review; device procurement and deployment; and data collection and analysis.

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541715 Engineering Research and Development and Strategic Planning

Engineering research and development (R&D) does not operate in a vacuum. An effective program requires an approach that crosses sectors and technologies to identify new solutions to today’s problems.

RTI International leads engineering programs from initial R&D to prototyping to commercialization. Drawing on our multidisciplinary background, we apply innovative technologies in statistics, health, and social research.

Services include conducting research and experimental development (except nanotechnology and biotechnology research and experimental development) in the physical, engineering, and life sciences, such as agriculture, electronics, environmental, biology, botany, computers, chemistry, food, fisheries, forests, geology, health, mathematics, medicine, oceanography, pharmacy, physics, veterinary, and other allied subjects.

Typical tasks include, but are not limited to, analysis of mission, program goals and objectives, program evaluations, analysis of program effectiveness, requirements analysis, organizational performance assessment, special studies and analysis, training, and consulting; requirements analysis, cost/cost performance trade-off analysis, feasibility analysis, developing and completing fire safety evaluation worksheets as they relate to engineering services; operation and maintenance, evaluation of inspection, testing, and maintenance program for fire protection and life safety systems, program/project management, technology transfer/insertion, training, and consulting.

Why RTI?

• Internal expertise across sectors, providing a single resource for projects

• Multidisciplinary, holistic perspectives for your R&D project

• In-house laboratories, reducing the need to outsource critical functions

Grid Environmental Trade-Offs in the Hydropower Sector

As a part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s HydroWIRES Initiative, RTI partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and four other national laboratories to assess links between environmental multi-objective flow requirements, reservoir operating decisions, and power system needs.

This project recognizes the complexities in defining operating policies for hydropower reservoirs that allow operators to take full advantage of available flexibility to meet needs on the electrical grid while balancing nonpower needs, such as healthy rivers, recreation, water supply, and flood control.

The project attempts to lay out a framework for evaluating these trade-offs through a series of case studies in which we identify optimal strategies that effectively support both environmental and power generation needs.

The team aims to demonstrate the increased benefits of hydropower in the future with greater renewables penetration.

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Capabilities

• Concept development and requirements analysis

• Development and scale-up of novel materials and associated systems

• Feasibility analyses

• In-use characterizations

• Lab- to bench-scale experiments

• Material toxicology and pharmacology

• Materials synthesis and formulation

• Modeling and process simulation

• Program analysis and evaluation

• Program and project management

• Research and development

• Special studies and analyses

• Strategic planning for technology programs/activities

• Systems design, engineering, and integration

• Testing and evaluation

Practice Areas

Energy

• Biomass Conversion

• Carbon Capture and Utilization

• Energy Efficiency

• Industrial Water

• Life Cycle Analysis

• Natural Gas

• Petroleum

• Syngas Processing

• Techno-Economic Analysis

• Transportation

Water

• Climate Change Assessment

• Hydrologic, Hydraulic, and Reservoir Model Development and Calibration

• Operational Forecast System Implementation

• Planning Studies

• Risk Analysis

Process Engineering and Technology Development

• Device Fabrication, Integration, and Testing

• Systems Design and Materials Synthesis

• Technology Identification, Development, and Transfer

Materials Science

• Air Filtration Design and Testing

• Construction

• Drug Delivery

• Gas Extractions

• Hydrogen Production and Purification

• Nanomaterials Integration

• Polymer Processing

• Renewable Biochemicals

• Water Purification

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RTI’s Energy Technology Development Facility (ETDF) provides the physical space to demonstrate process technologies at the critical transition from bench to pilot scale.

The ETDF is available as a user facility for commercial and government clients. RTI’s highly trained staff of engineers, scientists, and project managers can solve process development challenges from lab to pilot scale.

Rigorous safety protocols guide all activities.

Overview

• 20 m x 18 m area; 12.5-m peak height

• 200 kW of 480 V power

• Chilled water

• Compressed air

• External control room

• Flue-gas supply

• Integrated stair and mezzanine system

• Low-pressure process steam

• Micro-bulk CO

• Micro-bulk nitrogen

• Utilities

• Vent header/thermal oxidizer

Technology Uses

• Advanced solid sorbent-based CO capture process

• Carbon capture with non-aqueous solvents

(NAS)

• Catalytic biomass pyrolysis

• High operating temperature transfer and storage (HOTTS) process

• Small-scale engine reformer technology https://www.rti.org/service-capability/engineering-technology-rd https://www.rti.org/practice-area/energy-research

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Environmental Services

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541370GIS Geographic Information Systems Services

GIS services provide federal agencies with innovative, cost-effective approaches to help manage and analyze spatially referenced data to better understand our world.

At RTI International, our approaches are based on our foundation of multidisciplinary expertise, which includes designing and developing geospatial databases, conducting geospatial analysis, performing exploratory spatial data analysis, and using spatial statistics to analyze trends and patterns.

RTI scientists have expertise in designing web-based and desktop geospatial tools, developing synthesized human and livestock databases, and creating high-quality cartographic products and map atlases. We apply our geospatial technologies experience in support of a wide range of research areas, including geospatial environmental data management and analysis (with a particular focus on water and air quality data), geospatial tool and database development to support infectious disease modeling, and geospatial tool and data application to conduct research on crime, violence, and social justice. RTI also has developed automated mapping systems to support large-scale household surveys, has used geospatial data and mapping techniques to support epidemiological studies, and has provided general support for many social policy and health policy research projects.

Geographic Information Services (GIS) provided in support of environmental program include cultural resource GIS (CRGIS); groundwater monitoring;

growth forecast modeling; habitat conservation plans; habitat modeling; image analysis support for emergency response; mapping, cartography, and mashups (e.g., combining data from more than one source into a single integrated tool to include aerial mapping); migration pattern analysis; natural resource planning;

remote sensing for environmental studies; terrestrial, marine, and/or atmospheric measuring/management; vegetation mapping; and watershed characterization for mitigation planning.

Why RTI?

• Databases and applications to support research in public health, social policy, and the environment

• GIS and database technologies to support federal, state, and local agencies and organizations

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Capabilities

• Air and water quality

• Crime, violence, and justice

• Emergency preparedness and response

• Environmental and health risk assessments

• Epidemiology

• Geospatial environmental data management and analysis

• Health, economic, and social policy research

• International development

• Spatial statistics and exploratory data analysis

• Survey research and operations

Practice Areas

• Data Science

• Education and Workforce Development

• Environmental Sciences

• Food Security and Agriculture

• Health

• International Development

• Social Policy

• Water

RTI Corylus – Affordable Asset Inventories

RTI’s urban asset inventory system and workflow deliver detailed maps and reports at low costs so decision-makers can access high-quality, easy-to-understand data about the quantity, location, and quality of infrastructure, economic, and social activities. Summary statistics created for each asset type allow decision-makers to quickly identify high-priority assets and locations that need investment and maintenance.

Provides a complete record of photographic evidence to support the quality and validity of the resulting GIS database. Useful in case of potential disputes with stakeholders or politicians.

Step 1

Image Collection

Use RTI’s Corylus system to capture 360-degree, street-level images of entire cities.

Step 2

Asset Inventory Coding

Create a geospatially explicit asset inventory from the images

Step 3

Results Analyze asset inventory data and provide actionable information on investment needs and revenue opportunities.

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Air and Water Quality

RTI’s geospatial scientists work closely with air and…