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U -- LOCOMOTIVE MICRO-PROCESSOR AIR BRAKES TRAINING SOL DTFR53-99-P-00404 DUE 041699 POC Purchasing Agent Dana L. Hicks, 202-493-6131, Contracting Officer Illona M. Williams, 202-493-6130 The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has a requirement to train its Motive Power and Equipment (MP&E) safety inspectors and specialists to adequately monitor the safety of a combination of air brake systems: pneumatic; pneumatic-electronic, with and without telemetry, and computer-controlled micro-processor air brake systems. Since the FRA does not possess the equipment nor the expertise necessary to develop and deliver such a course of study, the FRA seeks a qualified contractor to work with its MP&E specialists to design, develop, and deliver a micro-processor air brake course that would be particular to FRA's needs. Speifically, the FRA seeks a contractor to design and develop a course that will provide FRA's MP&E inspectors and specialists with training on New York Air Brake Company's CCB (Computer-Controlled Brakes) and CCB II, Westinghouse Air Brake Company's Epic 3102 and EPIC II electronically-controlled air brakes on locomotives, as well as an overview of the following other elecronic-telemetric braking system technologies for locomotives, freight cars, and/or passenger cars: o Transportation System Modules Company's Electronic Car Air Brake Control Systems; o Distributed Power System (DPU) Integrated and Locotrol IV Systems; o Overview of modern locomotive event and function recording; and o Crew alertness control systems. The course must be delivered by contractor trainers at the contractor's facilities. FRA anticipates a total of about 125 inspectors attending the course, with approximately 21 attendees per six sessions desired by the FRA, for which the contractor must be prepared to deliver on the following dates: o Session 1 -- May 3-7, 1999 o Session 2 -- May 24-28, 1999 o Session 3 -- June 14-18, 1999 o Session 4 -- August 16-20, 1999 o Session 5 -- October 25-29, 1999 o Session 6 -- November 15-19, 1999 The course length should be limited to a total of 36 hours per 1-week session, with Monday through Thursday being 8 hours of training per day and Friday being only 4 hours of training to allow training attendees adequate time to travel back to their respective destinations. The contractor must provide both a classroom and a laboratory with instructional models of the various types of air brakes and other equipment involved, such as locomotive cab and equipment control stands (with computers) and "mock-ups" of operating levers, controls, breakers, switches and LCD screen displays featuring all computer-controlled braking interfaces. The courseware and participant guides to be developed by the contractor shall be modular, with learning objectives encompassing the following: o System overviews o System components o Functional system operation o Diagnostics and troubleshooting o Physical location of equipment o Operational overviews o Set-up of procedures: lead and remote locomotives o System linking and testing o Operating modes o Failure modes o Union Pacific Quick Tips (Troubleshooting Guide) The FRA's Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) and technical point of contact for this acquisition is: Mr. Monte Sanders, MP&E Training Specialist (SIDT), phone & fax 303-789-9993. Questions of a non-technical nature should be directed to Purchasing Agent Dana Hicks at 202-493-6131. Posted 03/31/99 (W-SN315022). (0090)

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