SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Cascadia Center Congestion Pricing Outreach Activities
- Notice Date
- 8/22/2008
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary of Tranportation (OST) Procurement Operations, OST Acquisition Services Division, 1200 New Jersey Ave, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTOS59-09-C-00402
- Archive Date
- 9/24/2008
- Point of Contact
- James H Mowery III,, Phone: 202-366-4959, James H Mowery III,, Phone: 202-366-4959
- E-Mail Address
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james.mowery@dot.gov, james.mowery@dot.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- It is anticipated that this will be a SOLE-SOURCE procurement resulting in a SOLE-SOURCE contract to be awarded to the Cascadia Center for Regional Development—hereinafter sometimes referred to as “Cascadia”, or as “the Center”. Under this procurement, the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to award, on a SOLE-SOURCE basis, one and only one contract (which will probably be numbered as DTOS59-09-C-00402) to the Cascadia Center for Regional Development, for a project entitled “Cascadia Center Congestion Pricing Outreach Activities”. It is estimated that the Federal price of that contract will be $200,000, and the contract will help to satisfy agency requirements to meet the congestion pricing analytical and outreach activities needed in support of DOT’s Congestion Initiative. A description of the work to be performed under the contract is given below, followed by a statement of the reasons why DOT believes that the contract must be awarded, on a SOLE-SOURCE basis, to the Cascadia Center for Regional Development. Description of the Proposed Sole-Source Project In an effort to expand the implementation and acceptance of direct roadway pricing throughout the United States, DOT’s Office of Transportation Policy seeks to develop new avenues and messages for effectively communicating the compelling benefits of road pricing on highway performance. The Cascadia Center for Regional Development in Seattle, funded largely by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide innovative transportation leadership in the Pacific Northwest, is uniquely qualified to implement this important outreach activity. The Center’s ongoing partnerships with opinion leaders in the public and private sectors of the Puget Sound area and other communities of the Pacific Northwest are key to helping DOT implement congestion pricing and related congestion relief strategies. Under the contemplated project, the Center would perform the following four tasks: Task 1. The Center would document the congestion relief aspects of the Transportation Technology (Trans Tech) Conference to be held in September of 2008 on the campus of the Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. The conference will be sponsored by Microsoft and additional public and private organizations. DOT does not intend to reimburse the Center for the costs of organizing and facilitating the Trans Tech Conference. The Trans Tech Conference will engage local leaders and national experts to refine and communicate concepts and strategies for the implementation of congestion reduction techniques such as road pricing, bus rapid transit, improved and more efficiently priced parking facilities, active traffic management, and other technology applications designed to relieve urban traffic congestion. Under Task 1, the Center would prepare a report summarizing the congestion relief aspects of the aforementioned conference, and would submit that report to DOT with two (2) months after the effective date of the contract. Task 2. The Center would direct an ongoing media relations program to publicize the results of the Trans Tech Conference and other congestion pricing outreach activities, as well as the results from actual congestion pricing activities occurring throughout the United States, including the recently implemented dynamic pricing of State Route 167 in the State of Washington. Under Task 2, the Center would prepare a documented compilation of published news reports and similar accounts covering Cascadia-coordinated events on the topic of congestion pricing and related congestion relief activities. The documentation would cover public acceptance of congestion pricing and related strategies. The Center would submit that documented compilation to DOT within six months after the effective date of the contract. Task 3. The Center would coordinate meetings attend by DOT’s Office of Transportation Policy, other DOT Staff, and private sector officials in the Pacific Northwest working on advanced software, communications, and other technologies. Such meetings would further the goals of DOT with regard to congestion pricing and related congestion relief strategies. The Center would prepare a summary of the meetings held under Task 3, and would submit that summary to DOT within two months after the effective date of the contract and every two months thereafter. Task 4. The Center would prepare a final report summarizing: (a) the lessons learned from the various outreach activities described in tasks 1, 2, and 3; and (b) actual pricing experience in the United States. The report should emphasize the capacity and performance improvements that result from user fees that vary with the level of traffic. That report would be submitted to DOT within eleven months after the effective date of the contract. Circumstances Supporting a Sole-Source Contract Award to the Cascadia Center for Regional Development Since the 1990s, Cascadia Center activities have helped to highlight and publicize the link between road pricing policies and efficient transportation system performance in seminars, workshops, and conferences. The Center is intimately familiar with the issues and has unique relationships with key public and private sector officials who are positioned to educate the public about this important policy issue. Cascadia’s efforts and experience have helped to support the progress already made by metropolitan Seattle in regional traffic management and in optimizing the area’s flow of people and goods. Seattle’s willingness to successfully pursue and enter into an Urban Partnership Agreement with the US DOT on June 20, 2008, reflects, in part, these educative, collaborative, and promotional efforts. The Seattle (Lake Washington) Urban Partnership Agreement is a cooperative agreement to employ innovative traffic management tools for improving traffic flow along State Route 520 and Interstate 90 between Seattle and the Eastside. The agreement calls for a new variable tolling system that could improve traffic flow on the SR 520 corridor and provide up to $500 million to replace the aging SR 520 Lake Washington floating bridge. Cascadia is uniquely qualified and situated to communicate the compelling importance of road pricing and to create new and expanded regional communication partnerships with opinion leaders in both the public and private sectors—efforts which are central to the sole-source project here envisioned. Because of the Center’s long experience in performing precursor work related to the project here proposed, and because of the extensive network of professional and local governmental contacts which the Center has developed and cultivated in the Seattle area in the performance of that previous work, the Center alone is capable of performing this new project at the high level of quality and within the ambitious time-frames and in the rigorous level of detail indispensable to DOT. If—despite the existence of the above-mentioned factual basis logically identifying the Cascadia Center for Regional Development as the only organization capable of satisfactorily performing the new contract numbered DTOS59-09-C-00402 as envisioned herein—any organization OTHER THAN Cascadia believes that it can perform this new project at the very high level of quality needed by DOT, then any such other organization shall E-MAIL a complete Statement of Qualifications to james.mowery@dot.gov and to jack.bennett@dot.gov not later than 4:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, September 22, 2008. Faxed and telephonically transmitted Statements of Qualifications will NOT be accepted.
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