SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Commercial Motor Carrier Registration and Fuel Tax Implementation Support for Mexico
- Notice Date
- 6/30/2003
- 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-00121
- Response Due
- 9/4/2003
- Archive Date
- 3/31/2004
- 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
- THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT ACCEPT TELEPHONED, E-MAILED, LETTER-WRITTEN, OR FAXED REQUESTS FOR THE SOLICITATION (RFP) FOR THIS PROCUREMENT. Instead, all prospective offerors must retrieve the solicitation from this FedBizOpps web site, when the solicitation is hereafter published. Although this is a FULL-AND-OPEN-COMPETITIVE procurement, there IS an INCUMBENT contractor: TML Information Services, Inc., located at 116-55 Queens Boulevard, Forest Hills, NY 11375; and TML?s contact person is Sean Dougherty at telephone number (800) 743-7891. In the past four years, TML has performed background work, which, to some degree, serves as an important foundation for the NEW project (procurement) announced herein. For details concerning the background work performed by TML, prospective offerors are instructed to contact TML. HOWEVER, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) does plan to publish----as an attachment to the SOLICITATION (RFP) hereafter issued for the NEW procurement announced herein----a copy of a relevant background REPORT produced by TML in November of 2001, entitled ?Mexico vis a vis International Registration Plan (IRP)/International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA)?. To the best of the FHWA?s knowledge, that background report is NOT now available on-line, at any web site or Internet address. The FHWA is NOT in a position to release that background report NOW, because it is too LENGTHY to fit within the space constraints imposed on this SYNOPSIS. Under the NEW project (procurement) announced herein, the FHWA plans to award a CONTRACT for assistance in helping the states to implement a program to provide the required registration and fuel tax credentials to Mexican commercial motor carriers wishing to do business beyond the commercial zone in the United States. In addition, the FHWA needs assistance in the development of a reciprocity arrangement on credentials for US commercial motor carriers wishing to do business in Mexico. The scope of work for this new project will include participating with the credentials team to help develop a mid-term solution and assist the FHWA, National Governors Association (NGA), the IRP and IFTA Associations and US border states in the implementation of the mid-term plan and the reciprocity agreement with Mexico. Key to the implementation of the mid-term plan will be establishing a motor carrier team for the FHWA and NGA credentialing team to work with on determining issues related to credentialing along with forecasting the estimated number of trucks that will be included in the new reciprocity agreement. Also key to the implementation will be working with the border jurisdictions on the language needed to modify the IRP and IFTA agreements to permit reciprocity with Mexico. And a crucially important piece will be developing the necessary support documents to shepherd the ballots successfully through the associations? legal processes and to help with the implementation of the new language. To be competitive, an offeror?s proposal will probably need to: (a) demonstrate the offeror?s established working relationship with, and understanding of, the Mexican Secretaria de Communicacaciones y Transportes (SCT), the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, IRP, IFTA, NGA, both trucking associations in Mexico, and the American Trucking Associations; and (b) demonstrate the offeror?s previous experience in providing support to the US States and the Mexican SCT in the development of an electronic on-line access or registration system. THE DUE DATE FOR THE FHWA?S RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS, AS PUBLISHED IN THIS SYNOPSIS, IS ONLY AN ESTIMATED DUE DATE. THE ACTUAL DUE DATE FOR THE FHWA?S RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS WILL BE STATED ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE SOLICITATION (RFP) HEREAFTER PUBLISHED. The FHWA?s best current ESTIMATE is that the solicitation MIGHT be published in this FedBizOpps web site on or about July 31, 2003. Any prospective offeror who retrieves the solicitation must be sure to frequently RE-CHECK FedBizOpps for any AMENDMENTS to the solicitation. Re-checking for such amendments is IMPERATIVE, because amendments usually contain crucial information.
- Record
- SN00360103-W 20030702/030630213304 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |