SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Ductile Fracture in Rail Equipment
- Notice Date
- 3/23/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary (OST) Administration Secretariate, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02142-1093, United States
- ZIP Code
- 02142-1093
- Solicitation Number
- DTRT5715Q80045
- Archive Date
- 6/23/2015
- Point of Contact
- Darcy J. Hubbard, Phone: 6174943816
- E-Mail Address
-
Darcy.Hubbard@dot.gov
(Darcy.Hubbard@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Department of Transportation (DOT), John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), Cambridge, MA intends to solicit, negotiate, and award a purchase order to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements." The Government intends to procure, through a firm fixed-price purchase order, services to develop procedures for validating material fracture modeling in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations. The Volpe Center is supporting the Federal Railroad Administration in developing methods for simulating the puncture resistance of railroad tank cars that transport hazardous materials. Such simulations are performed by the Volpe Center and members of the rail transportation industry in order to assess the puncture resistance of tank cars designed to carry hazardous materials. The results of simulation modeling performed by one organization have often been inconsistent with the results from another organization. Such inconsistencies have led to disagreements on the performance of particular designs. The services sought are highly specialized information for calculating and testing material fracture. This information must be communicated in such a way to allow consistent practice among various government and commercial organizations involved in the transport of hazardous materials on the general railroad system. No other single organization has been involved in this area of engineering research for as long or as extensively as MIT and the material failure algorithm developed and used by MIT is heuristic and the most physics-based available which meets the Government's requirement. In order to meet the Government requirement, other organizations would need to either learn and use the MIT algorithm or significantly revise their own algorithm. Such learning or revision would involve significant time and effort. Other organizations that provide these services do not have the level of expertise necessary in predicting material fracture that will meet the Government need. Only MIT has demonstrated the understanding and creativity needed to meet the Government requirement, so that industry costs may be minimized and resulting public safety may be maximized. A complete statement of work will be set forth in the Request for Quotation (RFQ). RFQ issuance will be on or about April 06, 2015. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541690 and the small business size standard is $15.0M. This procurement will be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Telephone calls made in place of the required documentation will not be accepted. A firm fixed priced purchase order is anticipated. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. Interested firms must submit a written capability statement to the above named point of contact providing clear and convincing evidence of the firms' capability to provide the required services. Written capability statements must be submitted within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date of publication of this synopsis. Responses received after fifteen (15) calendar days or without the required documentation will be considered non-responsive and will not be considered. Such documentation will be utilized solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. The Government will not pay for any documentation provided in response to this synopsis and documentation received will not be returned to the sender. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses received to the synopsis, is solely within the discretion of the Government. NOTE: All contractors must be registered in System for Award Management (SAM) in order to receive an award from a DOT Agency. Contractors may access SAM.Gov to register and/or obtain information about the registration process. 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 1-(800) 532-1169.
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