SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR ADVANCEMENT OF FREIGHT MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
- Notice Date
- 7/1/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- 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-00029
- Point of Contact
- Charles D. Kotch, Phone: 202-366-6622
- E-Mail Address
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charles.kotch@dot.gov
(charles.kotch@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The objective of this contract is to support and continually advance the programs, activities, and mission of the FHWA's Office of Freight Management and Operations, its partners and customers, by providing technical and programmatic services on a task order basis. Achieving this objective will involve performing the following efforts: To develop and refine the tools, evaluations, and information that assist in formulating strategies, positions and support for policies, regulations, guidelines and administration. To investigate, evaluate, summarize, organize, and disseminate information that promotes and provides for technology transfer, technical assistance, and policy development, guidance and administrative efforts. To develop technology approaches, including best practices and tools, and other mechanisms to facilitate the smooth flow of goods on the Nation's transportation system and across our borders. To provide market plans, research, evaluation, assessment and measurement, and information sharing which support freight products and customers. To develop and present workshops, presentations, briefings, papers, articles, publications, brochures, electronic media such as computer usable products, videos, and distance learning technologies that demonstrate and deliver the products, technologies and guidance information. To provide analyses to include data evaluation for implementation at federal and local government levels, recommendations and support regarding development, optimization, focus, reallocation of resources, support, including staff, funds, equipment, etc. To learn more about the freight transportation within the US DOT, you can visit the following Web site: http://www.freight.dot.gov/. To learn more about the Operating Administrations within US DOT visit the following Web site: http://www.dot.gov/DOTagencies.htm. The following is a listing of selected freight transportation documents that are helpful to freight practitioners: Building Freight Professional Capacity in the 21st Century - Efficient freight movement is a fundamental underpinning of our nation's economic strength. Enabling transportation professionals to improve their skills and knowledge to fully integrate freight movement into our transportation system's development and operations is the objective of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Freight Professional Development (FPD) Program. This brochure describes many of the options available in the FPD Program. Financing Freight Improvements - This Guidebook describes funding and financing tools available for freight investments. The Guidebook has been designed to provide information to the FHWA, states, MPOs, and other parties interested in investing in freight infrastructure. Freight Facts and Figures 2008 - A snapshot of the volume and value of freight flows in the United States, the physical network over which freight moves, the economic conditions that generate freight movements, the industry that carries freight, and the safety, energy, and environmental consequences of freight transportation. Freight Glossary and Acronyms - Provides definitions for key freight terms and a list of commonly used freight-related acronyms. Freight Story 2008 - A national perspective on freight transportation challenges and responses. Freight Technology Story - Provides information about the state of the art and the adoption of effective technologies by the freight industry and its customers. Guide to Quantifying the Economic Impacts of Federal Investments in Large-Scale Freight Transportation Projects - This guide focuses on economic effects and the secondary passenger benefits that often accrue due to freight projects. Quick Response Freight Manual Second Edition - This report provides background information on the freight transportation system and factors affecting freight demand, helps planners locate available data and freight-related forecasts compiled by others, shows how to apply this information in developing forecasts for specific facilities, and provides simple techniques and transferable parameters that can be used to develop freight vehicle trip tables. A PREPROPOSAL CONFERENCE WILL BE SCHEDULED APPROXIMATELY 2 WEEKS AFTER RELEASE OF THE RFP
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