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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (USDOT)

NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION (NHTSA)

Sources Sought for Solicitation 693JJ921R000072

Title: Parts Diagramming Service Application

Action Code: Sources Sought Classification Code: D

Solicitation: 693JJ921R000072

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

Location: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ

NAICS Code: 541690, Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services

Product Service Code: H225, R&D Economic Growth: Product/Service Improvement (Advanced Development)

Point of Contract: Thomas J. Bub, Contract Specialist, nhtsaOAM@dot.gov.

Introduction

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an agency of the U.S.

Department of Transportation (DOT). NHTSA’s mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. The agency develops, promotes and implements effective educational, engineering and enforcement programs with the goal of ending preventable tragedies and reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel. NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) is responsible for identifying vehicle safety defects. NHTSA intends to negotiate with A2Mac1 LLC for subscription service for annual access to engineering and technical benchmarking data and services of automotive industry products to provide browser-based access to their benchmarked vehicle catalog of full vehicle teardowns of with each part being cataloged into an online database using their secure desktop web browser via the Internet.

Services Sought

The purpose of this SOW is to acquire an online browser based parts diagramming support services, that will increase efficiency for ODI investigators and engineers across all pre-investigative evaluations and investigative actions.

Technical contextual information for Level 1 vehicle complaints will enable a better understanding of complainants who do not have the technical ability to correctly identify problematic components, allowing ODI screening to correctly disposition complaints.

Comprehensive technical information of vehicle systems and components will also enable ODI screening to better gauge the safety risk of Level 2 complaints, which often require a deeper understanding of the associated systems underlying an alleged defect. Background knowledge of subject vehicles can also aid in current investigative pursuits by enabling the drafting of more informed Information Request letters and identifying similar components/technology on contemporary vehicles for a product comparison. More broadly, the technical benchmarking of all-new and refreshed vehicles enables the investigator to be aware of emerging vehicle technologies to reduce any knowledge gap between ODI and OEM/Suppliers.

NHTSA is seeking Offerors that can satisfy the requirements of this procurement.

Contract Requirements:

• The Contractor shall provide a cloud based platform that will be easily accessible to fifty to sixty, (50-60) NHTSA internal users;

• The Contractor shall provide access to full vehicle component teardowns on vehicles in North America, along with 3D Auto Reverse North America;

• The Contractor shall provide NHTSA users with the ability to review full vehicle teardowns;

• The Contractor shall provide NHTSA users with the ability to download Excel sheets, and Bill of Materials, (BOM’s) from each vehicle teardown;

• The Contractor shall provide NHTSA users the ability to analyze vehicles from a 3D scan perspective.

Sources Sought

This Sources Sought, in accordance with FAR 5.201, issues a 15-day public notification prior to the issuance of a solicitation.

Contract Type and Period of Performance

NHTSA intends to award one Firm-Fixed Price Contract.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code:

519130 (Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals)

The applicable Product Service Code (PSC):

DH10, IT and Telecom - Platform As A Service: Database, Mainframe, Middleware

Place of Performance/Physical Location

The work performed under the proposed Contract shall be accomplished at the Contractor’s facilities and those facilities shall be located within the continental United States.

NOTE: To be eligible for a contract award, Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database located at www.beta.SAM.gov.

THIS SYNOPSIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

This notice is published for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. A solicitation will be released electronically via this Government Point of Entry (GPE) otherwise known as the System for Award Management (SAM) at beta.SAM.gov.

Potential Offerors are encouraged to register with SAM at beta.SAM.gov to receive updates/announcements and/or amendments to the solicitation after its release.

Interested firms should identify their capability to provide the services described above. The written response must include detailed information relating to the specific data being requested.

Expressions of interest without sufficient detail to permit evaluation of one’s ability to provide the requested information will not be considered.

This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A Request-for-Proposal solicitation document currently available. A determination by the Government not to compete this action, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive acquisition. In the absence of responses from interested firms demonstrating their capability, NHTSA intends to request a proposal from A2Mac1 LLC on a noncompetitive basis for the work described. Responses must be received by the listed procuring office with fifteen (15) days from the date of publication of this notice.

Services Sought