SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Quality Assurance Essentials and Case Studies for Accelerated Bridge Construction - RFP DTFH6116R00023
- Notice Date
- 6/7/2016
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, Mail Stop E62-204, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTFH6116R00023
- Archive Date
- 7/30/2016
- Point of Contact
- Tamiko Aikens, Phone: 2023663092
- E-Mail Address
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tamiko.aikens@dot.gov
(tamiko.aikens@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The overall objective is to determine the effectiveness of State Highway Agencies (SHA) QA practices utilized on ABC projects. A thorough literature review of states QA practices for bridge construction projects shall be included. A minimum of 5 case studies with each case study consist of an individual project with varying levels of complexities and located in different regional geographical area of the United States will be documented to illustrate the effectiveness, best practices and/or issues of the existing Quality Assurance practices utilized on ABC projects. The effective practices are those in place to reduce the risk of non-specification material in and high quality proper installation and “fit up” processes for structural precast concrete elements. From the documented case studies the contractor shall develop a QA guidance document to assist highway agencies in developing a more robust inspection and acceptance programs for ABC projects. In addition, to this QA guidance document the contractor shall develop an ABC Visual-aid inspection manual similar to the Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Pavement Distress Identification Manual; ABC is defined as bridge construction that uses innovative planning, design, materials, and construction methods in a safe and cost-effective manner to reduce the onsite construction time that occurs when building new bridges or replacing and rehabilitating existing bridges quickly. Conventional construction methods involve onsite activities that are time consuming and weather dependent. Nevertheless, speed is the primary difference between ABC and conventional bridge construction, but ABC can introduce other unique challenges such as: shipping and handling of large/irregular prefabricated elements, special lifting/erecting and element "fit-up" in the field, all of which could have special QA requirements. There are three particular ABC technologies being promoted under EDC-2 which are: Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems (PBES), Slide-In Bridge Construction (SIBC), and Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil - Integrated Bridge System (GRS-IBS). ABC is a paradigm shift in the project planning and procurement approach where the need to minimize mobility impacts which occur due to onsite construction activities are elevated to a higher priority. Conventional bridge construction is bridge construction that does not significantly reduce the onsite construction time that is needed to build, replace, or rehabilitate a single, or group of bridge projects.
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