Travel time speed & volume data

The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is seeking qualified vendors to provide comprehensive travel time, speed, and volume data services for roadways across the state, with a focus on Richland County. The procurement involves collecting and analyzing traffic data for interstates, primary routes (US and SC routes), and secondary routes with Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) of 15,000 or greater. Vendors must develop and maintain a web-based platform accessible to SCDOT staff, contractors, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), and Councils of Governments (COGs), providing real-time and historical traffic data reported 24/7 at multiple temporal granularities (1, 5, 15, and 60-minute intervals). The data must meet stringent accuracy requirements, including mean travel time reporting to the nearest whole second and space-mean speed to the nearest 1 mph, with specific error tolerance ranges for different roadway types. The solicitation was originally issued on November 18, 2022, with a questions deadline of December 16, 2022, a pre-proposal conference on December 15, 2022, and proposal submissions due by January 12, 2023, at 2:30 p.m. through the state's online procurement portal, with an anticipated award notification on May 11, 2023.

The contract does not specify specific set-aside designations or restrictions on respondent types, but vendors must be registered with the State of South Carolina and comply with state procurement regulations, including certifications regarding debarment, drug-free workplace status, and ethics compliance. The contract will have an initial term of one year with four one-year renewal options, potentially running from March 15, 2023, to March 14, 2028. While specific budget ranges are not explicitly detailed in the provided documents, a pricing submission template indicates line items for initial platform deployment, web-based training, annual hosting fees, data conflation services, and technical support. The state will own all collected data without limitations on its use, and vendors must provide updated shapefiles annually to reflect changes in the Linear Referencing System (LRS). No incumbent vendor is identified in the solicitation documents, and the contract appears to be establishing a new data collection and management approach for the department's traffic analysis needs.