Long-Term Pavement Performance Data Collection Services

This Synopsis is issued in accordance with FAR Part 5.203 in response to the mandatory requirement for a 15-day pre-solicitation notification. The purpose of this Synopsis is to announce the Federal Highway Administration’s intent to issue a solicitation for a Full and Open Competition to procure Non-Personal Technical Support Services for the Office of Infrastructure Research and Development pursuant to FAR Part 19.2.

The Government contemplates award of one Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract utilizing Firm Fixed Price (FFP) and Time-and-Materials (T/M) pricing arrangements resulting from this solicitation. The anticipated period of performance is 60 months from the effective date of the contract. The solicitation will be issued during December 2022.

BACKGROUND

The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Infrastructure Research and Development administers the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program in cooperation with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the State Highway Agencies, and the National Academy of Science.

The primary goal of the LTPP program is to understand how and why pavements perform as they do. To accomplish this goal, the program collects pavement performance data using standard data collection procedures and protocols on a variety of pavement types. Since 1989, the LTPP program has collected this information at nearly 2,509 pavement test sections throughout the United States and Canada.

Test sections are designated to be part of the General Pavement Study (GPS) experiments or the Specific Pavement Study (SPS) experiments. The GPS test sections were established on existing pavements that used an experimental matrix to guide the selection of the test sections that would cover, to the greatest extent possible, the range of factors required to explain pavement performance. Test sections for SPS experiments were built to specific designs and thicknesses, as defined in the experimental plans. The pavement performance and other data collected at the GPS and SPS test sections are available through the LTPP InfoPave™ web portal to pavement engineers and researchers worldwide to advance the science of pavement engineering.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this contract is to provide technical non-personal services to collect, manage, and process pavement performance and other data in support of the LTPP program. The Contractor shall supply all of the necessary facilities, equipment, materials, personnel supervision and other items and services necessary to provide technical support to the LTPP and other FHWA research programs as defined in the Statement of Work (SOW).

The scope of this contract includes the collection of site-specific data from LTPP test sections or other test sections of importance to FHWA, the coordination of data collection efforts of other Contractors and highway agencies, quality control of data collection procedures and data, and the entry of data into the LTPP program’s Pavement Performance Database and the Ancillary Information Management System. There are currently 332 active LTPP test sections located throughout the US and Canada where pavement performance and other data are still being collected. It is anticipated that data will be collected from approximately 100 to 150 test sections per year.

DETAILS

The solicitation will be released electronically via this Government Point of Entry (GPE) otherwise known as Federal Business Opportunities or www.SAM.gov. As such, no written, telephonic or other type of request for an advance copy of the solicitation will be entertained at this time. Potential Offerors are encouraged to register on www.SAM.gov to receive any further information in reference to the subject action inclusive of any announcements, and/or amendments to the solicitation after its release.