SPECIAL NOTICE
C -- Sole Source Notification - Los Angeles Regional DynusT Modeling
- Notice Date
- 8/30/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, Buffalo, 1776 Niagara St., Buffalo, New York, 14207-3199, United States
- ZIP Code
- 14207-3199
- Solicitation Number
- W912P6-17-S-0001
- Archive Date
- 9/28/2017
- Point of Contact
- Jeffrey G. Ernest, Phone: 7168794173
- E-Mail Address
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jeffrey.g.ernest@usace.army.mil
(jeffrey.g.ernest@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District intends to award a sole source contract to Metropia, Inc. to update a sub-area to an existing dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) model developed for the greater Los Angeles region using the Dynamic Urban Systems for Transportation (DynusT) software. Under contract options, the contractor will conduct traffic analyses of flood-induced road closures, support evacuation planning analyses, and participate in agency model review and approval efforts. The local metropolitan planning organization (MPO), Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) currently maintains several large regional traffic demand models for the greater Los Angeles area. In 2014, SCAG contracted with Metropia, Inc. to develop a DynusT model to investigate capacity improvements, congestion pricing, intelligent transportation system strategies, travel demand management, and other transportation matters. DynusT is designed to aid in addressing emerging issues in transportation planning and traffic operations and allows estimation of the evolution of system-wide traffic flow dynamics patterns resulted from individual drivers seeking the best routes to their destinations as traffic responds to changing network demand/supply conditions. This model generates minute-by-minute travel and activity for each synthesized individual of the SCAG region. This project successfully helped SCAG staff acquire core knowledge and experience with the latest DTA practices, and elevated SCAG's confidence in DTA in future advanced regional modeling. The existing SCAG DynusT model covers an extremely large geographic area and is one of the largest networks ever modeled. It covers over 20,000 centerline road miles, 31,000 nodes and 81,000 links. While the model covers an extremely large geographic area it tends to have a much finer resolution for areas within the Counties of Los Angeles and Orange, where the study areas of interest are located. The Contractor shall review the transportation network and make recommendations to the government as to the appropriate sub-area model extent in order accurately estimate how the regional transportation network would be impacted from various flooding scenarios and evacuation planning outlined in the option tasks. The authority for this sole source action is FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii) "Only one response source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements." A significant amount of resources have already been invested in this DynusT model awarded by SCAG, and Metropia has extensive expertise with this DynusT model. Changing to another model would result in a substantial duplication of costs to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition. Metropia's team includes the preeminent expert and primary developer of the DynusT model.
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