SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Enhancement of the TEXAS Model for Simulating Intersection Collisions, Driver Interaction with Messaging and ITS Sensors
- Notice Date
- 6/17/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Acquisition Management, HAAM, Room 4410 400 7th Street, S.W., Washington, DC, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTFH61-03-R-00117
- Response Due
- 7/23/2003
- Archive Date
- 12/31/2003
- Point of Contact
- James Mowery, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 366-4244, Fax (202) 366-3705, - Robert Robel, Contracting Officer, Phone (202) 366-4227, Fax (202) 366-3705,
- E-Mail Address
-
james.mowery@fhwa.dot.gov, bob.robel@fhwa.dot.gov
- Description
- SOLE SOURCE procurement. This procurement is planned to be a SOLE SOURCE contract award to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) plans to award a SOLE SOURCE contract to the University of Texas, for ?Enhancement of the TEXAS Model for Simulating Intersection Collisions, Driver Interaction with Messaging and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Sensors?. Under that SOLE SOURCE contract, the University of Texas will: (a) use the TEXAS model to accurately simulate crashes of vehicles; (b) provide tools for modeling interactions between the driver and the traffic control system during the period just prior to the crash; and (c) measure the vehicle?s actions with high fidelity ITS sensors. The Texas model was developed by the University of Texas for the State of Texas for detailed traffic analysis of single intersections and diamond interchanges. The TEXAS model is unique in that it follows the individual vehicle trajectories through the intersection, whereas conventional operations-oriented simulation models simply graphically lay out those trajectories in the animations but do not model the vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-geometrics interactions within the intersection ?box?. The TEXAS model is unique in that the curve radii and vehicle turn characteristics affect the traffic performance and interactions of the vehicles. The University of Texas employs the individuals who originally conceived and programmed the Texas model, and the university also employs at least one person who has worked on many traffic engineering projects using the TEXAS model; those persons are the most familiar with the TEXAS model?s source code, and they can most accurately create new vehicle characteristics needed for the collision features of this forthcoming project; those individuals are uniquely qualified to update and modify the TEXAS model to meet the intersection collision avoidance needs of the FHWA?s Research and Development. Moreover, the TEXAS model?s source code belongs to the University of Texas. The result is that the University of Texas and its cognizant staff are uniquely qualified to modify the TEXAS source code for the FHWA?s collision avoidance needs. Additionally, the University of Texas has agreed to put a copy of the TEXAS model?s source code into the Open Software Foundation?s General Public License at the end of this forthcoming project, so that it can be used by other research universities, by states, and by the federal government in future research projects. Developing a NEW single-intersection model from scratch with such capabilities and with rights in the open source domain would be estimated to cost several million dollars----a sum far exceeding the estimated cost of the intended SOLE SOURCE contract with the University of Texas. Therefore, it is in the Federal Government?s cost effective best interest to award this contract to the University of Texas. Any interested organization may attempt to prove its capability to competitively perform this forthcoming project, by submitting one complete hard original and seven complete hard copies of a Statement of Qualifications to the following address, for a mandatory ARRIVAL at the following address AND in the following ROOM NUMBER not later than 4:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time on July 23, 2003: James H. Mowery III, Negotiator, Office of Acquisition Management (HAAM-30D), Federal Highway Administration, Room 4410, 400 Seventh Street, S. W., Washington, D. C. 20590. Documents sent to that address by means of the U. S. postal service often encounter delays of many days before arriving in that Room 4410, because of enhanced security-screening procedures instituted after the terrorist attacks. The FHWA does NOT plan to issue any separate SOLICITATION for this project. Therefore, any organization desiring to submit a Statement of Qualifications shall compile it by using the information given in this Pre-Solicitation Notice.
- Record
- SN00349465-W 20030619/030617213317 (fbodaily.com)
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