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A -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THE PAVEMENT TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM SOL DTFH61-98-R-00068 DUE 072298 POC Linda K. Hooks, Contract Specialist, (202) 366-4217 THIS REQUIREMENT IS DESIGNATED AS A SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE, SIC CODE 8731. The Federal Highway Administration has a requirement for a 36 month effort to provide technical and engineering support for its pavement technology program. This requirement has provisions to exercise two one-year options, making the total possible period of performance up to a maximum of 60 months. The objective of this proposed effort is to ensure that the technologies delivered by FHWA's research and development pavement program are ready for implementation and deployment and to provide guidance and technical assistance in the application of new and existing pavement technologies. The Contractor selected for this effort will perform laboratory and field evaluation of areas such as asphalt chemistry, asphalt materials, pavement engineering, construction operations, highway operations, secondary materials, and paint corrosion. The Contractor will be required to provide technical assistance for the formulation, development, and execution of research plans, experimental designs, test plans and database management; instrument, collect, document, analyze and reduce pavement response, performance and condition data; perform laboratory tests on asphalt binders and asphalt mixtures; perform laboratory evaluations of durability of industrial coatings for steel, concrete, and road delineation applications. THE CONTRACTOR WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE AN ASPHALT/ASPHALT MIXTURE LABORATORY AND PAINT CORROSION LABORATORY TESTING FACILITIES. The asphalt mixture laboratory facility shall have the necessary equipment to perform the standard AASHTO test procedures and specialized binder tests such as but not limited to T2, T11, T27, T30, T37, T44, T48, T49, T84, T85, T111, T133, T164, T170, T179, T201, T202, T209, T228, T245, T248, T255, T269, T275, and T283. The coatings/corrosion testing laboratory facility shall operate and maintain a laboratory suitable for testing the durability of industrial coatings materials. Typical capabilities required include salt spray testing in accordance with ASTM B117 and ASTM D5894, as well as physical testing of coating materials such as adhesion and abrasion resistance, gloss and color retention, and coating mix, cure and applicability properties. More thorough descriptions of the needed laboratories will be provided in the solicitation. Parties wishing to obtain a copy of the solicitation may submit written requests to the address indicated above and should include two (2) self-addressed gummed mailing labels. No telephone, fax, or e-mail requests will be accepted. All copies of the solicitation and its forms/attachments will also be posted for downloading, at the time of the solicitation's issuance, on our Webpage at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/aaa/hamhome.htm. If you download copies of the solicitation from our Webpage, you will NOT automatically receive amendments to those solicitations unless you have also sent in a written request. It is your responsibility to check back frequently to verify if any amendments to the solicitation have been issued. All amendments will be posted on, and may be downloaded from, our Webpage. (0148)

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