SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Demonstration Tests Of Different High Visibility Enforcement Models
- Notice Date
- 11/19/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- 2010-0005
- Archive Date
- 12/22/2009
- Point of Contact
- Lloyd S. Blackwell, Phone: 202-366-9564
- E-Mail Address
-
lloyd.blackwell@nhtsa.dot.gov
(lloyd.blackwell@nhtsa.dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Sources Sought Notice is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The purpose of this Notice is to identify potential sources that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein. The NHTSA welcomes Corporate Capability Statements from all individuals and organizations. The NHTSA does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted or NHTSA’s use of such information. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified of NHTSA’s evaluation of the information received. As a result of this Notice, the NHTSA may issue a Request for Proposals (RFP). However, should such a requirement fail to materialize, no basis for claims against the NHTSA shall arise as a result of a response to this Notice. Scope: The U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (USDOT/NHTSA) Office of Behavioral Safety Research (OBSR) conducts research and evaluation projects dealing with behaviors and attitudes in highway safety issues. Program focus is on drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and motorcyclists. The OBSR is interested in conducting a study examining the effects of high visibility community campaigns enforcing the drinking and driving laws on community members’ perceived risk of alcohol-impaired drivers being stopped and arrested. In particular, the OBSR is interested in assessing the impact on perceived risk of two different types of high visibility enforcement (HVE) programs: (1) a program in which highly visible forms of enforcement and media outreach are fully integrated into normal law enforcement agency operations and sustained over an extended period of time; and (2) a program that compacts the high visibility enforcement and accompanying media outreach into intervention activity occurring five-to-six times a year. Both are models designed to overcome previously identified weaknesses of more limited enforcement wave approaches in influencing risk perception. The primary objective of this study would be to assess any changes associated with the HVE programs in community members’ perceived risk of alcohol-impaired drivers being stopped and arrested. This would include exploring whether there is a differential impact on perceptions both in terms of the type of HVE program as well as risk characteristics of drivers. The experimental design would include a comparison site not exposed to either of the two program models but instead engages in current common practice (i.e., a limited wave approach focused on the two times of the year when the National Alcohol Impaired Driving Crackdowns are occurring). Besides collecting self-report awareness and attitudinal data from the intervention and comparison sites, the study would collect on-road BAC data to assess program impact on behavior. NHTSA would like to answer the following questions: 1.Was there a measurable change within intervention communities in the perceived likelihood that an alcohol-impaired driver would be stopped and arrested? 2.What was the level of awareness within intervention communities that the enforcement activity was occurring and did it grow over time? 3.How did drivers deemed most at risk of driving at illegal BACs compare to other drivers in their perceptions of risk and their awareness of enforcement activity? 4.Were the intervention communities able to obtain continuing media coverage of their enforcement activities? 5.How well did high visibility enforcement and media outreach integrate into the normal activities of the law enforcement agencies? 6.Did the enforcement programs correspond with a change in measured BACs on the road? Capability The corporate capability statement is expected to address the capabilities required to support the scope section above, along with the characteristics identified below. Experience and expertise in working with law enforcement agencies; Working knowledge of operational procedures, training, and organizational structures commonly employed by law enforcement agencies; Experience and expertise in collecting telephone survey data, including telephone interviews with persons on cell phones; Experience and expertise in working with communities to set up community-level programs; Skills in establishing systems for communicating with program sites, monitoring activity in program sites, and developing data collection plans with program sites; Capabilities in identifying and separating out from telephone survey data drivers at high risk of driving at illegal BAC levels, as well as capabilities in identifying and utilizing supplemental sources for data collection from high BAC drivers: Capabilities in collecting on-road BAC data; Experience and expertise in experimental design and field research; Experience and expertise in collecting and analyzing field data; Experience and expertise in preparing documents and activities necessary for review by an Institutional Review Board (IRB); Experience and expertise writing detailed analytic reports. Format of Corporate Capabilities Statement: Any interested organizations should submit the Corporate Capability Statement which demonstrates the firm’s ability and interest in no more than 10 pages to perform the key requirements described above. All proprietary information should be marked as such. All respondents are asked to indicate the type and size of their business organization, e.g., Large business, Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned-Business, 8(A), Historically Black College or University/Minority Institution (HBCU/MI), educational institution, profit/non-profit organization, in their response. Interested offerors shall respond to this Sources Sought Notice no later than 15 calendar days from date of posting. E-mail is the preferred method when receiving responses to this Notice.
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