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R -- EVALUATION OF AMTRAKS BEHAVIOR BASED SAFTETY ENVIRONMENT SOL DTRS57-00-Q-80021 DUE 021500 POC Point of Contact -- Karen Marino, Purchasing Agent, (617) 494-2437 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Purchasing Agent, marino@volpe.dot.gov. The Volpe Center intends to issue, through Simplified Acquisition procedures, a sole source procurement to Behavioral Science Technology, Ojai, CA, to provide products in support of the Federal Railroad Administration s (FRA) Evaluation of Amtrak s Behavior Based Safety Environment. Amtrak has 8 safety rulebooks with over 1000 rules; the objective of this requirement is to consolidate its rulebooks. The contractor will be required to include advice on the overall research strategy, a detailed data analysis plan, a formula for an appropriate injury rate, behavioral observation training with accompanying materials and reliability methods for measuring unsafe practices, assistance in interpreting the findings, a plan on how to feed the data back and a sampling plan for focus groups. Small Business firms classified under SIC code 8733 must demonstrate that they (1) have possession of the proprietary protocols which makes it possible to sample the mass of behaviors and those central to behavior-based safety; (2) have experience in developing observation checklists to measure unsafe work practices in operating environments; (3) have extensive experience training operating personnel to use observation checklists to collect reliable data; (4) must have recent knowledge of Amtrak Operations, Injury Data and Rates. This proposed action is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority 6.302. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed p urchase order based upon responses to this notice received will normally be considered, solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Small business firms will be required to submit a maximum of five, but not less than three pages of documentation in support of the above prior to receiving a solicitation. Telephone requests will not be accepted only written requests for this solicitation will be accepted however, we will accept requests for this solicitation via facsimile, at (617) 494-3649, Attn: Karen Marino, DTS-852. Posted 02/01/00 (D-SN420591). (0032)

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