SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Vehicle Registration Data Tabulation
- Notice Date
- 2/7/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, U. S. Census Bureau, Suitland, Acquisition Division Rm.1557 FB#3, Washington, DC, 20233
- ZIP Code
- 20233
- Solicitation Number
- 52-SOBC-2-00002
- Response Due
- 2/22/2002
- Archive Date
- 3/9/2002
- Point of Contact
- beth brooks, contract specialist, Phone 301/457-4421, Fax 301/457-1785, - william russell, contracting officer, Phone 301/457-1831, Fax 301/457-1785,
- E-Mail Address
-
beth.e.brooks@census.gov, william.h.russell@census.gov
- Description
- R-VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS - The Census Bureau intends to procure services via a competitive request for proposals (RFP) to provide truck registration universe counts and truck samples for the 50 states and the District of Columbia for the 2002 tag year. The registration files must be as of May 1, 2002 and July 1, 2002. Interested parties must be able to do the following: (A) The contractor shall provide counts of the universe of trucks registered for the 2002 tag year summarized for each state by body type by Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). Trucks registered as passenger vehicles must be identifiable and included in the truck universe counts. Excluded from the truck universe counts would be buses, ambulances, fire trucks/fire apparatus vehicles, motor homes, mobile homes, passenger car station wagons, trailers, farm tractors, automobiles not on a truck chassis, off-road vehicles, and any level of government (state, local, or federal) owned vehicles. The contractor shall provide a count for the total number of vehicles removed for each state. (B) The contractor shall edit the files to meet the following conditions: (1) All duplicate registrations must be removed, (2) All registrations must have mailable names and addresses, and (3) All registrations must be Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) coded. (C) The contractor shall code all trucks and assign them to one of the five following vehicle types for sampling purposes: (1) Pickups, (2) Vans, (3) Straight trucks, excluding pickups and vans, with GVW less than or equal to 26,000 pounds, (4) Straight trucks, excluding pickups and vans, with GVW greater than 26,000 pounds, or (5) Truck tractors. (D) The contractor shall select samples of registered trucks from the edited state universe files using a sample selection procedure supplied by the BOC. Sample files shall be randomly sequenced by vehicle type. (E) The contractor shall provide the following information for each truck in the selected sample: (1) State of registration code, (2) License number (state license number only), (3) Standardized make abbreviation of the vehicle, (4) Vehicle model, (5) Model year, (6) State registered weight, (7) GVW class code, (8) Owner name and address, (9) Lessee name and address (if applicable), (10) Body type code, (11) Cab type code, (12) Vehicle type code, (13) Vehicle identification number (VIN), (14) Fuel type code, (15) Number of wheels/wheels driving code, (16) Series, (17) Cylinders, (18) Cubic inch displacement (CID), (19) Brake type code, (20) Transmission type code, (21) Expiration date of MVA registration, AND (22) Transaction date of MVA registration. (F) The contractor must have the capability of transmitting virus-free files via CD-ROM or encrypted e-mail. (G) The contractor shall provide the following information in a timely manner: (1) Provide the BOC test files for both the universe counts and the state sample files for approval. The universe test file must be delivered by July 19, 2002 and the state sample test file must be delivered by September 21, 2002. (2) Transmit May 1, 2002 universe counts by state to the BOC by August 28, 2002, (3) Transmit July 1, 2002 universe counts by state to the BOC by November 13, 2002, and (4) Deliver sample files by December 11, 2002. The North American Industry Classification System Code for this acquisition is 541990. The solicitation is anticipated to be released through the use of the Internet on or about February 22, 2002. Relevant information as well as the issuance of the solicitation shall be provided only through the use of the Internet. This information will be available on the Census Bureau World Wide Web Site at http://www.census.gov/procur. No telephone requests will be honored.
- Record
- SN00023762-W 20020209/020207213116 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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