SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- - Evaluation of the Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) Curriculum
- Notice Date
- 1/20/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- 2012-0111
- Archive Date
- 2/21/2012
- Point of Contact
- Lloyd S. Blackwell, Phone: 202-366-9564
- E-Mail Address
-
lloyd.blackwell@nhtsa.dot.gov
(lloyd.blackwell@nhtsa.dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Sources Sought Notice is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The purpose of this Notice is to identify potential sources that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein. The NHTSA welcomes Corporate Capability Statements from all individuals and organizations. The NHTSA does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted or NHTSA's use of such information. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified of NHTSA's evaluation of the information received. As a result of this Notice, the NHTSA may issue a Request for Proposals (RFP). However, should such a requirement fail to materialize, no basis for claims against the NHTSA shall arise as a result of a response to this Notice. The 16-hour Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) curriculum, is designed to give officers the ability to apply information they have learned about driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) to make effective arrests, based on probable cause, that provide the necessary evidence for prosecution. In order to accomplish this goal, the program seeks to increase the officers' overall knowledge of the general manifestations of alcohol and drug impairment and to improve their ability to recognize these indicators in the drivers they encounter during their enforcement duties. In 2010, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and NHTSA had offered over 150 classes, which provided training to approximately 2400 officers. There are other forms of training for law enforcement officers who wish to have additional training in detecting drugged drivers. One such course, the Drug Evaluation and Classification (DEC) program is a 9-day course designed to train officers to utilize a variety of readily observable signs and symptoms that are accepted in the medical community as reliable indicators of drug influence. The DEC program enables officers to determine whether a suspect is under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, and if so, which category of drugs, by combining basic medical knowledge about drug pharmacodynamics with psychomotor tests. This form of training is costly in time and resources. NHTSA developed the ARIDE curriculum as an alternate, shorter-term course that was designed to assist officers in their arrest decisions, to enable them to speak more confidently in court settings about those decisions, and to aid in their judgment to call DEC-trained officers to perform Drug Recognition Evaluations (DRE). NHTSA has received several directives regarding training law enforcement officers to identify DUID (the most recent, the Office of National Drug Control Policy's strategy [1] for preventing drugged driving). Therefore, it is important that NHTSA provide the most up-to-date, informative, applicable, and effective (in terms of cost, time, and resources) curriculum possible to a broad audience of law enforcement officers. For many types of courses, NHTSA will hear that the training was a "success" because hundreds of students were trained, or because a certain number of students passed the test with a "high" score. However, neither of these explanations is sufficient to inform us as to what the students learned, whether, and for how long, they will retain the knowledge, and how they will use that information. NHTSA is interested in implementing strong and pertinent curricula, and conducting solid evaluations of those courses that can help teach individuals (in this case, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other traffic safety professionals) in a cost-effective manner, about recognition of drug and alcohol impairment. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to evaluate the ARIDE curriculum, as it is currently delivered, and assess the overall effectiveness of linking the objectives to the course materials, and how the objectives contribute to enhancing the officers' skill at making informed arrest decisions at the roadside. The objective of this project is to assess the ARIDE curriculum's overall effectiveness with respect to: •1. Course implementation- •a. course content and organization; •b. curricular implications (e.g., cost; impact on other types of training such as Standardized Field Sobriety Testing and DEC training; course length requirements); and •c. general outcomes associated with implementation (e.g., a change in the number of students attending or withdrawing from the course; objectives that aid students the most in their work roles); and •2. Learner performance- •a. participants' knowledge of the course material, and •b. practical use of the course information (e.g., increased calls for DRE evaluations, increased DWI arrests, better report writing). Format of Corporate Capabilities Statement: Any interested organizations should submit the Corporate Capability Statement which demonstrates the firm's ability and interest in no more than 10 pages to perform the key requirements described above. All proprietary information should be marked as such. All respondents are asked to indicate the type and size of their business organization, e.g., Large business, Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned-Business, 8(A), Historically Black College or University/Minority Institution (HBCU/MI), educational institution, profit/non-profit organization, in their response. Interested offerors shall respond to this Sources Sought Notice no later than 15 calendar days from date of posting. E-mail is the preferred method when receiving responses to this Notice.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Record
- SN02658600-W 20120122/120120234911-e71d60acd94be8341de2286136f4d854 (fbodaily.com)
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