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L -- ENGINEERING AND NETWORK SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE FHWA SOL DTFH61-98-R-0005 POC Behrooz Behpoory, (202) 366-4224 This requirement is a 100% competitive set-aside procurement under the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. SIC Code 8711 applies. This contract requires approximately 133 person-years of nonpersonal engineering and network support services for the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) for a period of 7 years. This contract is to provide nonpersonal engineering and network support for the research activities of the Federal Highway Administration, Office of Research and Development at the TFHRC, McLean, VA. This work involves, as a minimum, the following: 1.Review Existing Operation to include, as a minimum, the following activities: Review all existing support service activities to become familiar with the day-to-day operation. This will include a series of meetings with the COTR and each of the "clients" currently being supported. A complete review of all existing "Support Service Request". 2.Highway Engineering and Programming Support Services to include, as a minimum, the following activities: A. Road surface studies including the development, enhancement, and training of Road Surface Analyzer (ROSAN) and PRORUT2. B. Accelerated Loading Facility (ALF) support including ASYST programming, data acquisition, and data analyses. C. Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) support including database updating and maintenance, LTPP Sampler program, and quality control check of construction data. D. Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) support including server support, database maintenance, data extraction, and data analyses. E. Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) support including conceptual design, model development, programming, integration, and testing. F. Vehicle dynamics simulation team support including the generation of FEMs and analysis using DYNA3D. G. Geometric and roadside design team support including the collection and analysis of data from HSIS, FARS, NASS, POLK, and individual State databases. H. Geographic Information System (GIS) support in areas of safety analysis, bridge inventory, and pavement management. I. Accounting and Budgeting System (ABS) support including system maintenance, user training and support, software enhancement, server support, and security control. J. Correspondence Control System (CCS) support including system maintenance, user training and support, software enhancement, server support, and security control. K. Special Product Evaluation List (SPEL) support including system maintenance and reporting, database update, user support, and conversion support. L. Aerodynamic laboratory support including experiment design, data collection and reduction, data analyses, and archiving. 3. Network Support Services to include, as a minimum, the following activities to support the FHWA standard network operating environment: A. Multi-platform LAN operations and management for TFHRC. B. Testing, evaluation, and installation of new network equipment and software. C. Help desk operation. D. Network security and configuration management services. E. WAN integration/interconnection support. Requests for solicitation must be in writing. Submit two self-addressed labels to the Federal Highway Administration, Office of Contracts and procurement, 400 7th St. S.W., Room 4410, Washington, D.C. 20590. No telephone requests will be accepted. A soliciation will be issued within 45 days from the date of this announcement. "See Note (4)" (0328)

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