SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- National Survey of Drowsy Driving, Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviors
- Notice Date
- 4/14/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- 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
- DTNH2216R00042
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2016
- Point of Contact
- Matthew C. Donahue,
- E-Mail Address
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matthew.donahue@dot.gov
(matthew.donahue@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). NHTSA's mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. Pursuant to its authority under 23 U.S.C. 401, et. seq., the agency develops, promotes, implements, and supports effective educational, engineering and enforcement programs with the goal of ending preventable tragedies and reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel. NHTSA is interested in drowsy driving's impact on our Nation's roads. In 2014 there were 846 fatalities (2.6% of all fatalities) recorded in NHTSA's database that were drowsy-driving-related. These reported fatalities (and drowsy-driving crashes overall) have remained largely consistent across the past decade. Between 2005 and 2009 there was an estimated average of 83,000 crashes each year related to drowsy driving. This annual average includes 886 fatal crashes (2.5% of all fatal crashes), an estimated 37,000 injury crashes, and an estimated 45,000 property damage only crashes. Drowsy drivers come from every race and ethnicity, gender, age, income level, education, and employment status. However, some groups are more frequent drowsy drivers than others. Men report falling asleep while driving in the preceding 30 days more frequently than women (5.3% vs. 3.2%), and 25 to 34 year olds are the most likely age group to report falling asleep while driving (6.3%).People with less than a high school diploma or GED (4.8%) are the most likely to report falling asleep among levels of educational attainment., Black (6.1%) and Hispanic (5.9%) drivers are more likely than white (3.2%) drivers to report falling asleep during driving, and employed (5.1%) and unable to work (6.1%) drivers were more likely than unemployed (3.1%) or retired drivers (1.0%) (Wheaton et al., 2013). Unfortunately, not much is known about the public's knowledge and attitudes that lead to drowsy driving. Understanding the public's attitudes and knowledge is an important step in building predictive models of behavior that will allow NHTSA to design and deploy countermeasures that will impact the incidence of drowsy driving across the United States. NHTSA seeks a contractor to conduct a nationally representative survey of a randomly selected sample of drivers on their attitudes, behavior and awareness of drowsy driving. The objective of the contract includes identifying relevant prior surveys and publications to inform the current survey design (questions and sampling); developing a multi-modal (primarily web-based) survey instrument, sampling plan that is designed to be representative of the United States population as well as representative of the populations of New Jersey and Arkansas; and finally collecting, analyzing, reporting, and disseminating the survey results. There are also optional tasks associated with this project that, at the government's discretion, will focus on disseminating the results of the project and/or re-collecting survey data in New Jersey and/or Arkansas at a later date. This acquisition is being offered as a small business set-aside. The NAICS Code for the anticipated contract is 541720. Contractors must be registered in the Systems for Award Management Database located at http://www.sams.gov, and must complete electronic representations and certification on the ORCA database located at http://orca.bpn.gov to be considered for contract award. It is the Government's intent to award a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) type contract resulting from the solicitation, with or without discussions, to the responsible offeror whose proposal, conforming to the solicitation, is most advantageous to the Government based on the evaluation factors contained in the solicitation. It is the Offeror's responsibility to monitor the FedBizOpps Internet site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential Offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Requests for paper copies of the RFP will not be accepted. The estimated date for release of the solicitation is on or about May 26, 2016. Period of Performance: Twelve (12) months for the base task, with the potential of forty-eight (48) total months if all optional tasks are exercised. Contract Award: The anticipated award date for the resultant contract is expected to be on or about September 2016.
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