SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Evaluation on the Impact of Spectral Power Distribution on Driver Performance
- Notice Date
- 4/29/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Acquisition Management, HAAM, Mail Stop E65-101, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTFH61-10-R-00027
- Archive Date
- 11/25/2010
- Point of Contact
- Senica Crowder, Phone: 202-366-4106, Rick Murray, Phone: (202) 366-4250
- E-Mail Address
-
senica.crowder@dot.gov, rick.murray@dot.gov
(senica.crowder@dot.gov, rick.murray@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has a new requirement for a contract to: (1) determine if there are measureable differences in driver performance, as measured by detection and recognition of pedestrians and potential hazards on and along the roadway, changes in roadway geometry, and other elements that may be critical to public safety, under varying SPD and lighting levels; (2) develop concepts to evaluate the potential safety impact of these differences; and (3) develop a correlation between driver performance and SPD by lighting level for roadway and street lighting. The scope of the project includes developing data acquisition requirements and experimental concepts to fully evaluate driver performance in high-speed road and low-speed street environments. Road environments will typically have low levels of visual clutter, with most objects of interest in the foveal or parafoveal region. Street environments may have significant visual clutter and off-road lighting, with many objects initially detected in the peripheral region. Evaluation of driver performance in street environments may require a naturalistic driving task. This study requires access to a closed course (road that the contractor can close to traffic) with installed or temporary lighting systems that can be switched from one type of lighting to another. The study also requires access to eye-tracking systems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking ) and may require use of a dynamic vehicle-mounted luminance camera (example: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VTTI/reports/Luminance_Camera_021109.pdf ). The use of eye-tracking is necessary to fully understand when a driver looks at an object or pedestrian on or along the roadway, while the luminance camera will provide the research team with accurate data on differences in the luminance contrast under different lighting systems. Combining these data sets will provide insight into whether or not different spectral power distributions allow for similar responsivity under different light levels. This requirement is full and open competition pursuant to NAICS code 541712 with a size standard of 500 employees. The solicitation, all related documents and amendments, if any, will only be released and available electronically through the FedBizOpps posting system at http://www.Fedbizopps.gov under the Vendors option followed by selection of the Department of Transportation (DOT) center. As such, no written, telephonic, facsimile or email requests for the solicitation package will be honored. Interested parties can register at the aforementioned site to receive procurement announcements by email. Since this solicitation will only be available electronically, it is solely the responsibility of interested parties to monitor the FedBizOpps website for any solicitation amendments. All responsible sources are encouraged to submit an offer. ATTENTION: Minority, Women-owned, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises. The Department of Transportation, Short-Term Lending Program offers working capital financing in the form of revolving lines of credit to finance accounts receivable arising from transportation related contracts. Maximum line of credit is $750,000 at varying interest rates. For further information, call (800) 532-1169 x62852 or link to Internet address http://osdbuweb.dot.gov.
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