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R -- TRANSIMS-LANL COMERCIALIZATION DEVELOPMENT PROCESS SOL 06873-SOL-99-4R DUE 101499 POC Brad Kemp 505-667-0880 WEB: Click here to download a complete copy of the RFP., http://bus.lanl.gov/bus5/vendor/solicitations/transims/default.htm. E-MAIL: E-mail for contract specialist in charge of this solicitation, bradkemp@lanl.gov. This solicitation is conducted by the University of California (the University) which is the Management and Operating Contractor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under Government Contract W-7405-ENG-36. The broad objective of this effort is to identify and overcome the factors that inhibit the routine use of TRANSIMS-LANL technologies in the transportation planning market, and to effect the transition of TRANSIMS technologies from research and development to routine operational use in transportation planning. The constituents of the transportation planning market are: Customers -- transportation planning organizations (TPOs) that wish to transition from using current methods and models to the TRANSIMS technologies; and Suppliers -- a "TRANSIMS" business infrastructure, comprising software developers and vendors, subject matter experts, consultants, services companies, and others that support the Customers' TRANSIMS technology needs. Under this procurement, the UNIVERSITY-as the primary TRANSIMS developer and partner with DOT-will fund a single source to begin transitioning TRANSIMS technologies to the commercial marketplace. This procurement is intended to promote the timely evolution of a TRANSIMS market in which TRANSIMS products and services are cost-effective and routinely available from multiple sources on terms consistent with commercial business practices and provide value beyond current-generation methodologies and approaches to transportation analysis and planning. The source selected to execute this development and deployment of TRANSIMS may be a single entity, or a team headed by a single entity. Because of the broad nature and technical challenges represented in this procurement, Offerors are encouraged to form teams, but a team shall be headed by a single entity that shall serve as Prime Contractor. The intent of the TRANSIMS Commercialization Process is to develop and deploy a new capability to support a broad range of TPOs in performance of commonly required analyses. Posted 08/13/99 (W-SN367798). (0225)

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