SPECIAL NOTICE
U -- Railroad Operations and Safety Training
- Notice Date
- 11/17/2008
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, Headquarters TSA, 601 S. 12th Street, TSA-25, 10th Floor, Arlington, Virginia, 22202
- ZIP Code
- 22202
- Solicitation Number
- 2109209RIN002
- Response Due
- 11/21/2008
- Archive Date
- 11/24/2008
- Point of Contact
- Benjamin Van Wormer,, Phone: 571-227-3298
- E-Mail Address
-
benjamin.vanwormer@dhs.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- TSA intends to award a sole-source contract for Railroad Operations and Safety Training to the Transportation Technology Center, Inc (TTCI). TTCI is the only vendor that offers this specialized training, because it is the sole steward of the Emergency Response Training Center (ERTC), operated on land managed and controlled by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The specialized training can only be conducted at this location due to varied resources available there. These resources include a fully functional and operational railroad infrastructure, 69 railway freight cars, which include cars in four simulated derailment settings, 15 passenger rail cars, 25 highway cargo tanks, van trailers, and Intermodal containers. Students at ERTC have unlimited access to every type of passenger and freight railcars and containers commonly encountered in rail transportation. The facility also includes approximately 52 square miles of training infrastructure that includes standard freight rail track, an electrified third rail system which is commonly used in the mass transit subway system(s), an electrified overhead catenary system used by systems such as Amtrak, as well as several mock train derailments. This contemplated contract is for a base and four option years, totaling a five-year potential period of performance. TTCI provides specialized training in railroad operations and safety, as well as combined classroom and hands-on field exercises to reinforce the principles and techniques identified and learned in the classroom. The training program required by TSA is a comprehensive overview of the entire railroad industry, including freight, passenger, commuter, subway, and light rail systems. The anticipated scope of the contract shall include the following training elements, at a minimum: Principles of Rail Systems, Rail and Transit Organizations, Rail System Safety, Rail System Security, Track and Structures, Rail Networks, Types of Trains, Train Control and Communication Systems, Control Systems and Performance Monitoring Technology, Rail Freight Operations, Rail Passenger Operations, Locomotive Technology, Freight Car Technology, Passenger Vehicle Technology, Hazardous Materials Transportation, Tank Cars, Intermodal Containers, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Rail System Disruptions, Emergency Response and Incident Management Process within the railroad industry. The training program shall also consist of hands-on exercises designed to familiarize TSA inspectors, and others as authorized by the STSI Program Office, with the systems and technologies discussed in the classroom setting, as well as the processes used in the railroad environment and during emergency response activities. A variety of modern freight and passenger rail equipment shall be used in the field exercises. The field exercise location must be large enough to contain a mock freight train derailment with a variety of rail cars used in the static display for Inspectors to evaluate. TTCI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads, a not-for-profit trade association which operates and maintains the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Transportation Technology Center under a “Care, Custody, and Control” contract with DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration. TTCI’s mission is to provide research, design, testing, training, analysis, evaluation, management, and engineering support to the world’s railway transportation industry. In accordance with DOT/FRA policy, TSA must contract with TTCI in order to use DOT’s Transportation Technology Center. TTCI’s Emergency Response Training Center (ERTC), on land leased by the DOT/FRA, is the only training center of its kind in the world. No other railroad training facility possesses the infrastructure, expertise and personnel necessary to deliver a comprehensive combination of hands-on and classroom training. The U.S. Mass Transit Systems (freight and passenger rail, highway) require the ability to prevent and/or manage the consequences of terrorist attacks. TTCI’s training facility is the only location that can fill this need. TTCI, through H.R. 1 (9/11 Act Section 1204 (b)(6)), has been appointed a member of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC) whose duties are to identify, develop, test, and deliver training to State, local, and tribal emergency response providers, provide on-site and mobile training at the performance, management and planning levels, and facilitate the delivery of training by the training partners of the Department. The Transportation Security Administration has concluded, based on past experience and available market research, that competition is not readily available. While there are many vendors that offer training and training development, no vendor, other than TTCI has the hands-on facilities that the STSIP training requires.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Dept. of Transportation Emergency Response Training Center, Pueblo, Colorado, 81001, United States
- Zip Code: 81001
- Zip Code: 81001
- Record
- SN01705838-W 20081119/081117215010-e62247594c4864ee592842bd0e10201b (fbodaily.com)
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