SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- American Public Transit Association Wheel Specification for Safety Assurance
- Notice Date
- 9/26/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 55 Broadway; Cambridge, MA 02142
- ZIP Code
- 02142
- Solicitation Number
- DTRS57-03-Q-80218
- Response Due
- 10/10/2003
- Archive Date
- 10/10/2003
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact - Donald E. MacGee, Contract Specialist, (617) 494-2803
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Contract Specialist
(donald.macgee@volpe.dot.gov)
- Description
- NA The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) plans to procure a sole source from Rusin Consulting Corporation, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, to provide analyses of current wheel designs with known service experience through detailed elastic-plastic finite element analysis of selected operating scenarios (mechanical loads from wheel/rail contact and thermal loads from on-tread braking). This procurement will be conducted under Simplified Acquisition procedures in accordance with FAR Part 13. The Volpe Center has been supporting the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in the area of Wheel Specification for Safety Assurance specifically toward development of fitness-for-service design criteria for railroad wheel used in transit and passenger applications. This proposed action i s for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority in FAR Part 6.302. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed purchase order based upon responses received to this notice would normally be considered, solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. RFQ issuance will be on or about October 14, 2003. A single award will result from this solicitation. No telephone requests will be accepted- only written requests for this solicitation will be accepted ? however, we will accept requests for this solicitation via facsimile, at (617) 494-3024, Attn: Donald MacGee DTS-853.
- Web Link
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Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page
(http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html)
- Record
- SN00442697-W 20030928/030926213111 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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