SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Advanced Solutions to Capture Mobility Data Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
- Notice Date
- 11/2/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02142-1093
- ZIP Code
- 02142-1093
- Solicitation Number
- DTRT57-13-SN-00001
- Archive Date
- 12/18/2012
- Point of Contact
- Carl Chin,
- E-Mail Address
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carl.chin@dot.gov
(carl.chin@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- ADVANCED SOLUTIONS TO CAPTURE MOBILITY DATA BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) 1. BACKGROUND The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program is a research program that aims to foster transportation advancements that lead to improved safety, mobility and environmental impacts by promoting the development of advanced communications technologies and the use of existing technologies. The ITS Program involves all modes of surface transportation in these efforts. ITS technologies utilize multiple modes of communication, including the secure, low-latency Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) as well as other modes such as cellular and WiFi. The Volpe Center supports the USDOT's Dynamic Mobility Applications (DMA) Program, which is the lead program conducting research in support of greater multimodal mobility. The DMA Program aims to achieve its goals by developing and supporting new approaches for managing and using increasing amounts of available and more highly detailed travel data. Through this BAA, the DMA Program is looking to accelerate advancements in mobility and multimodal travel management by developing more efficient and cost-effective ways to acquire travel decision data. 2. OBJECTIVES The Offeror shall support the Volpe Center in achieving the objective of this BAA by advancing state of the art solutions to capture and manage travel decision data. Specifically, the Volpe Center is seeking testable solutions that offer new capabilities for understanding multimodal travelers' decisions within a transportation and data environment that evolves with each decision. Advancements in techniques for studying travel behavior are needed to maximize opportunities for safe and effective mobility in an increasingly connected world. Although the future is impossible to predict with certainty, it will likely involve greater challenges with traffic management, greater interest in multimodal transportation options, wider options in terms of data availability and modes of wireless transmission, and a greater demand and opportunity for intelligent transportation management on a user and system level. This BAA is intended to support research and development into new solutions to capture mobility data that will allow greater understanding of travel choices: where are travelers going, how are they getting there, and why are they making the choices they are? Solutions submitted under this BAA should advance the objective to capture and manage multimodal travel data to provide the maximum amount of usable information possible for analyses of travelers' transportation decisions. 3. TECHNICAL SUMMARY SUBMISSION DEADLINE Technical summary proposals prepared in accordance with this BAA will be due by 12:00 pm E.T., Monday, December 3, 2012. Technical Summaries submitted after the due date and time will be considered non-responsive. 4. TECHNICAL SUMMARY SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Offerors shall submit a three-page (3) technical summary meeting the requirements described below in Section 5. Technical Summaries shall be submitted by email to the Contracting Officer, Carl Chin at; carl.chin@dot.gov. The Volpe Center will respond to Offerors no later than 30days after the due date for submission of Technical Summaries in one of three ways: a. Request for the submission of a proposal in response to the Volpe Center Request for Proposal (RFP). b. Recommendation to submit a proposal in response to Volpe Center RFP if certain changes are made or conditions met based on the Offerors' asserted data/software restrictions. c. Rejection of the Technical Summary and no request for a proposal. If requested to do so, the Offeror may submit a proposal in response to the Volpe Center's RFP. The Offeror's proposal shall contain a detailed discussion of the subject presented in the three-page (3) technical summary as described in Section 5 below. The Volpe Center anticipates making multiple awards under this announcement. All awards will be Firm-Fixed-Price type and the anticipated total funding amount for all awards is $500,000.00. Questions in regards to this BAA are to be directed to the Volpe Center Contracting Officer, Carl Chin at; carl.chin@dot.gov. Questions regarding this BAA are due by 12:00 pm E.T., Thursday, November 8, 2012. Responses to all questions submitted shall be posted in FedBIZOps. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. The Volpe Center encourages the widest participation to this BAA from large businesses, small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, service disabled veteran owned small businesses, woman or women owned small businesses, 8(a) certified small businesses, veteran owned small businesses, HUBZone certified small businesses, historically black colleges and universities, other educational and non-profit organizations. 5. TECHNICAL SUMMARY REQUIREMENTS There is no specific format for the three-page (3) technical summary, except that it must be printed in no less than 11-point font, with one-inch margins on all sides, with each page printed on only one side on 8.5 x 11 inch standard paper in portrait orientation. Each page shall be numbered. The summary may be preceded by a cover letter, but the cover letter will not be considered in the evaluation, nor will it be counted against the three (3) page limit. Note that a Technical Summary must be submitted to be considered for award. The proposed solution is expected to be functional and testable-this BAA is not intended to fund paper-only responses, and commercial marketability is not expected or relevant. At a minimum the summary shall contain the following items: a. The specific purpose of the proposed solution; b. A description of the proposed solution including the data it acquires; c. The current state of development of the proposed solution; d. The proposed timeline and approach for developing the proposed solution; e. A description of any proposed testing and evaluation procedures for the proposed solution; f. A description of the team proposing to develop the solution; g. Rough Order of Magnitude ("ball park") price. Each Technical Summary must include the following contact information: point of contact, organization name and complete street address, organization DUNS number, organization Tax Identification Number (TIN), telephone number, fax number, and email address. 6. TECHNICAL SUMMARY EVALUATION CRITERIA Evaluations of Technical Summaries will be performed using the following technical criteria, which are listed in order of decreasing importance: • Technical Approach: Overall scientific and technical merit of the proposal, including: its novelty and the likelihood that the proposed solution with its given design can provide the proposed capabilities. • Importance to agency programs: o Degree to which solution is portable, safe to use (e.g., with minimal driver distraction), and can transmit travel data and receive other data easily; o Degree to which solution operates effectively in a variety of situations (e.g, various travel modes, environmental conditions, communications network availabilities); o Degree to which solution offers program-relevant capabilities such as  Ability to measure or infer the physical environmental context in which travel decisions are made;  Ability to measure or infer travelers' plans/itineraries;  Ability to select a wireless transmission mode intelligently, based on communication network congestion or availability;  Other abilities relevant to the DMA program mission. o Degree to which solution is otherwise able to support the DMA program mission. • Past Performance: Degree to which Offeror's team's training and experience indicate that it is capable of completing the proposed work. The Technical Evaluation Team will only review Technical Summaries that address objectives in this solicitation and meet document guidelines provided in this BAA. The Government may choose to consider the entire solution proposed by the Offeror or only a portion of it. An Offeror providing a Technical Summary deemed worthy of further consideration and meeting the criteria of this solicitation may be notified with detailed guidelines for responding to the Volpe Center's RFP. 7. REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA Proposals submitted in response to the Volpe Center RFP will be evaluated against the same evaluation criteria in Section 6 and the following additional criteria: • Technical Approach: Degree to which the Offeror has identified technical risks and presented an effective risk mitigation plan. • Importance to Agency Programs: Degree to which any data, software, or other restrictions will impact and/or limit the ability of the Government to use, develop, or research the solution. • Management Approach: Degree to which Offeror's team has the skills and commitment needed to manage the work to result in on-time delivery of the solution.
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