Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Contracts and Procurement (NAD-30), 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590

B -- ADOPTING NEW YORK STATE AUTOMATED SOURCE REPORTS FOR FATALITY ANALYSIS REPORTING SYSTEM (FARS) SOL DTNH22-98-Q-07121 POC Margaret Bryant, Contract Specialist (202) 366-9887, or Janice Flemming, Contracting Officer (202) 366-9564 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) intends to negotiate with the State of New York/Division of Criminal Justice Services to modify new automated State Police Accident Report (PAR) reporting system, Computerized Accident Reporting and Delivery Systems (CARDS), to provide PAR data into an electronic format for the FARS program. The contractor will be required to provide technical guidance to identify new procedures for receiving state source data through new state automated reporting systems, and to evaluate options for converting state automated source data into the FARS data entry system. The contractor must provide technical guidance to establish the rules necessary to completed the data the migration into FARS coding scheme, and upon successful evaluations, develop the necessary software to complete the migration. Interested firms identify their capability to respond to the work requirements listed above. The written response must include detailed information as to professional qualifications and relevant expertise/specifically addressing organizational/personnel experience. Expressions of interest without sufficient detail to permit evaluation of capabilities will not be considered. Oral expressions of interest will not be considered. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations nor is a Request-for-Quotations solicitation document currently available. A determination by the Government not to compete this action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive simplified acquisition. In the absence of responses from interested firms demonstrating their capability, NHTSA intends to request a quotation from the State of New York/Division of Criminal Justice Services on a noncompetitive basis for the work described. Responses must be received by the listed procuring office within 15 calendar days from the date of the publication of this notice. Posted 12/11/98 (W-SN279641). (0345)

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