SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Study of Accuracy Limitations of Road Profilers Based on a Single-Axis Accelerometer
- Notice Date
- 7/20/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- 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
- Reference-Number-FHWA
- Response Due
- 8/4/2005
- Archive Date
- 8/19/2005
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought Notice (market survey) to seek potential contractors for an anticipated Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) procurement. This is not an RFP. The FHWA is conducting this market survey to identify potential sources that have the technical capabilities to perform research on the ?Accuracy Limitations of Road Profilers Based on a Single-Axis Accelerometer? as described in the ?Research Project Statement? posted in Word format in conjunction with this notice. The research objectives for this project are as follows: (1) To thoroughly describe the principles of operation of road profiling systems that employ a single vertical accelerometer to measure test vehicle position. (2) To assess the sensitivity of single-accelerometer-based road profiling systems to errors in measured elevation profile caused by tilt and rotation of the profiling test vehicle and by frequency-dependent accelerometer response, assuming the range of highway grade, curvature, cross-slope, and roughness reasonably encountered for rural and urban pavements in the United States, as well as the range of vehicle dynamics and test speeds typically encountered in testing. (3) To compare the realizable performance of single-accelerometer-based road profiling systems to the performance requirements for profile measurement to support construction acceptance testing and other applications defined in AASHTO and ASTM test provisions. (4) To recommend guidelines regarding the use of road profiling equipment based on a single-axis accelerometer to measure pavement roughness for purposes of construction acceptance, asset management, and pavement research. Interested sources are invited to submit Capability Statements expressing interest in the project and describing organizational technical capabilities to perform the work. In addition, please identify your organization?s business size (i.e., large business or small business) under the applicable NAICS code for this project, NAICS 541330 (size standard of $4 Million). Please limit your technical capability information to no more than 10 pages. FHWA invites any interested organizations to submit Capability Statements by August 4, 2005, by email to Sarah.Tarpgaard@FHWA.DOT.GOV, or in writing to Federal Highway Administration, Office of Acquisition Management, Attn: Ms. Sarah Tarpgaard (HAAM-20B), Room 4410, 400 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC, 20590. For questions concerning this announcement contact Ms. Tarpgaard at the email cited above or phone 202-366-5750. This Sources Sought Notice is not to be construed as a commitment on the part of the Government to award a contract nor does the Government intend to directly pay for any information or responses submitted as the result of this Sources Sought Notice. See note 25 for specific information to be submitted in response to this notice, in addition to the information requested herein.
- Record
- SN00850824-W 20050722/050720211841 (fbodaily.com)
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