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A -- OPERATIONAL REVIEW OF SPECIALTY VEHICLES" SOL DTFH61-98-R-00079 DUE 071498 POC James H. Mowery III, telephone (202) 366-4244 TELEPHONIC, E-MAILED, AND FAXED REQUESTS FOR THIS SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. It is anticipated that this solicitation will result in the award of a contract under which the contractor will perform an operational review of Specialty Vehicles -- -that is, vehicles used for purposes such as law enforcement, fire control, emergency management, highway maintenance, and construction. That operational review would include: (a) performing a preliminary needs assessment or needs analysis of the "stakeholders" in each of those areas of use, to determine how each such stakeholder needs to use Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies and properly designed and integrated In-Vehicle Information Systems (IVIS) in transferring information from or to a vehicle operator or crew member, in order to attain safe and efficient operator/vehicle unit performance; (b) developing a set of potential enhancements to the Advanced Law Enforcement & Response Technology (ALERT) system, with the goal of making the performance of the driver/vehicle unit safer and/or more efficient; (c) developing a set of potential enhancements to the current/planned advanced winter maintenance vehicle In-Vehicle Information Systems with the goal of making the performance of the driver/vehicle unit safer and/or more efficient; and (d) developing interface recommendations and a set of lessons learned, for police vehicle IVIS designers/integrators and for advanced winter maintenance vehicle system IVIS designers/integrators. In developing the set of potential enhancements to ALERT, the contractor will identify the human factors principles incorporated into the current ALERT system and will make the maximum use of the ride-along user requirements and ergonomics studies already performed by the ALERT system developers. This is a FULL AND OPEN COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT. All interested sources may respond to this synopsis and may subsequently submit a proposal to the FHWA. TELEPHONIC, E-MAILED, AND FAXED REQUESTS FOR THIS SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Each company or individual wishing to obtain a diskette copy or any other electronic copy of this solicitation SHALL submit a WRITTEN letter request to Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) at the address shown above, ALONG WITH TWO SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS. The FHWA needs your WRITTEN letter request for the solicitation, along with your address labels, so that the FHWA can compile a COMPLETE list of prospective offerors, and so that any AMENDMENTS to the solicitation will be mailed out to ALL prospective offerors. If you NEGLECT to send the FHWA a WRITTEN letter request for the solicitation (along with two self-addressed adhesive labels), you are unnecessarily taking the RISK that you might NOT RECEIVE, from the FHWA, one or more crucial AMENDMENTS that might hereafter be issued, to clarify or CHANGE the solicitation -- -and you are also taking the risk that you might OVERLOOK the posting of any such amendment on the FHWA Webpage. Using each prospective offeror's WRITTEN letter request for the solicitation, and using one of the prospective offeror's address labels, the FHWA will mail out the solicitation to that offeror in a 3" diskette in WordPerfect 6.1 format. Amendments, if any, will be mailed, in either hard copy or diskette format, to each offeror who submitted a WRITTEN letter request for the solicitation. The solicitation and its forms/attachments will be available for downloading on the FHWA's Webpage at HTTP://WWW.FHWA.DOT.GOV/AAA/HAMHOME.HTM on the release date of the solicitation. But if you download copies of the solicitation from the Webpage, without sending a WRITTEN letter request to the FHWA, then the FHWA will NOT automatically send you any AMENDMENTS to the solicitation. Notwithstanding the FHWA's intention to mail amendments to all parties who have sent written letter requests for the solicitation, it is nevertheless the responsibility of EVERY prospective offeror to CHECK BACK with the FHWA frequently, to determine whether or not the FHWA has IN FACT issued any amendments. Check back frequently for any amendments, REGARDLESS of whether you DOWNLOADED the solicitation. All amendments will posted on, and may be downloaded from, the Webpage. (0148)

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