TRB Core Program Sponsor Activities

The Purchase Order was awarded under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i). The following rationale for the use of a single source was posted in advance of solicitaiton on www.sam.gov in a Notice of Intent to Single Source under Notice ID: 693JJ623RFI0004:

This contract would make FRA a TRB Core Program Sponsor, which meets the following FRA requirements:
• Access to TRB Publications and webinars on developments and research across modes of transportation.
• Access to a display booth and attendance for FRA staff at the annual TRB conference held in Washington, DC, convenient to FRA’s headquarters location. Access to the convention by FRA staff is required for FRA’s research and development mission in order to:
       a) acquaint the international community of transportation regulators, local and national transportation regulators, industry, and research institutions with FRA’s research work;
       b) discuss and learn about the research of others;

       c) determine the latest innovations and ideas in transportation in order to influence future FRA research projects.
• Authorized user access to the full contact information in TRB Directory’s for FRA’s research information gathering and dissemination: TRB Committee and Panel volunteers, other TRB appointed volunteers, TRB Sponsors, affiliates, representatives, and staff. This access facilitates communications regarding TRB standing committees and panels, TRB project-based committees and panels, and other TRB events, programs, and undertakings.
• Sponsoring and participating in the work of TRB Committees to explore and discuss technical standards, research, and innovative ideas in transportation.

Because of its longstanding history and reputation, TRB has the unique ability to gather transportation experts for joint research seminars, publications, conventions, and Committees comprised of members from international and national governmental bodies, local governmental agencies, nonprofit researchers, and the transportation industry. Only TRB can provide the measure of expertise, objectivity, audience outreach, and audience acceptance necessary to meet the FRA’s requirements for access to others’ research and development related to railroad and multimodal transportation and for dissemination of FRA’s research and development related to railroad and multimodal transportation.

Awarded contract 693JJ623P000019 to NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES for 170000.00 on 2023-09-07.