SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Aviation Research Roadmap
- Notice Date
- 6/24/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway; Cambridge, MA 02142
- ZIP Code
- 02142
- Solicitation Number
- DTRT57-09-Q-80084
- Response Due
- 7/8/2009
- Archive Date
- 9/22/2009
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact -Rachelle Dorleans, Contract Specialist, 617-494-2136<br />
- E-Mail Address
-
Contract Specialist
(Rachelle.Dorleans@volpe.dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) is assisting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) initiative. Initiatives of NextGen, may be hampered without an aggressive program to address the environmental consequences of aviation noise. The Volpe Center, in support of the FAA, seeks a contractor to conduct several Aviation Research Roadmap workshops to a cross-section of professionals and community leaders who have experience with noise issues to provide direction on a future noise research roadmap focused on annoyance from aviation noise. A detailed statement of work will be set forth in the Request for Quotation (RFQ). The complete RFQ will be issued on or about July 8, 2009. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541330 and the business size standard is $4.5 million. This procurement will be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures on an unrestricted basis. The solicitation and any document related to this procurement will be available on the Internet; these documents will be available in text format and reside on a WWW server, which may be accessed using Web browsers. The WWW address, or URL, of the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page is: http:www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitations posting and availability for downloading must register at the Volpe Center website. Offerors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an accurate and complete e-mail address lies with the contractor. Telephone inquiries will not be honored. The Government will not pay for any information received. All contractors must be registered in Central Contractor Registration (CCR) in order to receive award from a DOT agency. Contractors may access the CCR website at http://www.ccr.gov to register and/or obtain information about the registration process. In addition, solicitation Representation and Certifications are no longer included in solicitation documents and now must be completed online via the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA). ORCA is a web-based system that centralizes and standardizes the collection, storage and viewing of the Representations and Certifications required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Prospective offerors are highly encouraged to complete the online provisions within the Representations and Certifications at the ORCA website: https://orca.bpn.gov. The following notice is provided for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises. Attention: Small and Disadvantaged (SDB), Women-Owned, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs). The Department of Transportation's (DOT) Short-Term Lending Program (STLP) offers working capital financing in the form of lines of credit to finance accounts receivable for transportation related contracts. The maximum line of credit is $750,000. The STLP loan has a variable rate, which is connected to the prime rate. The current rate may be found on the OSDBU website http://osdbuweb.dot.gov or call (800) 532-1169.
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