SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Development of Oblique Restraint Countermeasures
- Notice Date
- 6/17/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- 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
- DTNH2215R-00079
- Point of Contact
- Stanley Peter Shultz, Phone: 2023669561, Lionel Johnson, Phone: 202-366-0498
- E-Mail Address
-
Pete.Shultz@dot.gov, Lionel.Johnson.CTR@dot.gov
(Pete.Shultz@dot.gov, Lionel.Johnson.CTR@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Pre-Solicitation notice (synopsis) announcing a procurement opportunity offered under full and open competitive conditions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an agency within the United States Department of Transportation. NHTSA's mission is to reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes. One way it does this is by conducting research into improving occupant protection equipment and systems. The report entitled "Fatalities in Frontal Crashes Despite Seat Belts and Air Bags - Review of All CDS Cases - Model and Calendar Years 2000-2007-122 Fatalities" concluded that aside from "exceedingly severe" crashes, one of the common configurations for crashes with belted occupant fatalities in vehicles with air bags were oblique, offset crashes. Subsequent to this report, NHTSA developed a controlled crash test procedure to reproduce vehicle damage and occupant kinematics through crash dummy injury measures that reflect these field-investigated crashes. The resulting test procedure involves a high speed oblique moving deformable barrier (OMDB) impacting a stationary vehicle with a 35 percent overlap and an angle of 15 degrees from collinear, in both left- and right-side impacts. The objective of this project is to design, optimize, fabricate, and demonstrate a physical prototype occupant protection system for both the driver and passenger seating positions in right and left oblique conditions to reduce risk of injury to occupants in oblique crashes. The goal is to develop an advanced restraint system to reduce THOR injury assessment values below injury assessment reference values in left and right impacts. The contractor would then determine the incremental cost of the advanced restraint system over the base line system. This project will be performed using modelling and sled testing and therefore intrusion is not considered for this project. SOLICITATION INFORMATION: The government contemplates the award of a single Cost-Sharing type contract. The period of performance is estimated at 63 weeks. The forthcoming solicitation and any related documents to this procurement will only be available electronically for download at www.fbo.gov referenced by the solicitation number DTNH2215R-00079. The anticipated issuance date of the solicitation is on or about July 2, 2015. However, it is the Offeror's sole responsibility to monitor the fbo.gov website for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential Offerors will also be solely responsible for downloading copies of the solicitation and amendments (if any) as well as any other related documents.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOT/NHTSA/NHTSAHQ/DTNH2215R-00079/listing.html)
- Record
- SN03767251-W 20150619/150617235002-504280d7b12bc88cb1b7dd46acb6edac (fbodaily.com)
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