SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- National Railroad Network Model
- Notice Date
- 6/10/2017
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Office of Acquisition and Grants Services, Mail Stop 50, West Bldg, 3rd Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTFR5317R00714
- Archive Date
- 6/29/2017
- Point of Contact
- Angeline P. Behrend, Phone: 2024931323
- E-Mail Address
-
angeline.behrend@dot.gov
(angeline.behrend@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE PURCHASE ORDER The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) intends to award a Sole Source, Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) purchase order to Bartlett and West, 1200 SW Executive Drive, Topeka KS 66615, for updating the FRA’s National Railroad Network Model (NRNM). The NRNM takes the previous year’s million gross tons from the Class 1 industry (maps or digital formats) and codes onto the North American Rail Network (NARN). The coding of the density is used for analysis of the rail network, specially to be used as an impedance factor when flowing the waybill sample. Bartlett and West has been the prime contractor on the NRNM since 2013 and has developed procedures to code in the densities onto the NARN. The NARN was revamped in 2015 as a result of a competitive procurement resulting in the award to Bartlett and West of Purchase Order # DTFR53-15-P-00032 and would require a steep learning curve for a new entity to conduct this work. The updated densities are required to conduct accurate, critical safety and economic analyses with the most up to date data. The value of the purchase order for a base year and two (2) one-year options is expected to be a total of $94,000.00. The duplication of costs from a full and open competition is estimated to be $50,000.00. The proposed contract action, for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source, is under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 and 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. Interested parties with the capability of meeting the proposed requirements are requested to provide an email to the FRA point of contact, Angeline Behrend at Angeline.Behrend@dot.gov no later than 1:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, expressing interest and outlining their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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