Reducing the Illegal Passing of School Buses

This is a Pre-Solicitation notice (synopsis) for a procurement in accordance with FAR Part 5.203; to provide notice of the Government's proposed contract action listed herein.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) mission is to reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes.

 Students are about 70 times more likely to get to school safely when taking a bus instead of traveling by car. That's because school buses are the most regulated vehicles on the road; they're designed to be safer than passenger vehicles in preventing crashes and injuries; and in every State, stop-arm laws protect children from other motorists.  Unfortunately, injuries and fatalities occur more often outside or near a bus due to other motorists failing to heed the stop-arm warning.

Between 2006 and 2015, there have been 1,313 people killed in school-transportation-related crashes-an average of 131 fatalities per year. Occupants of school transportation vehicles accounted for 9 percent of the fatalities, and nonoccupants (pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.) accounted for 20 percent of the fatalities. A school-transportation-related crash is a crash that involves, either directly or indirectly, a school bus body vehicle, or a non-school bus functioning as a school bus, transporting children to or from school or school-related activities. From 2006 to 2015 almost two-thirds (64%) of the school-age pedestrians fatally injured in crashes were struck by school buses or vehicles functioning as school buses, while 36 percent were struck by vehicles of other body types.

NHTSA is interested in significantly enhancing its resources related to illegal passing of stopped school buses loading and unloading students by enhancing and updating its Best Practices Guide:  Reducing the Illegal Passing of School Buses, and by developing a pilot project in one community to assess the problem, increase awareness through development of localized assets, increase reporting, and increase enforcement.  During and after the effort, a comprehensive evaluation of processes, awareness, and behavior modification will be conducted.

The objective of the contract is to assess current Stop-Arm Violation initiatives at the state and local level, enhance the Best Practices guide, and to test the comprehensive implementation of those best practices in one community.

 Solicitation Information:

The Government contemplates the award of a single contract.  The period of performance of the contract will not to exceed forty-eight (48) months.  

NO FURTHER PROCUREMENT INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.