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A -- CRASH DATA ANALYSIS SUPPORT SOL DTRS57-00-R-20020 DUE 050500 POC Point of Contact -- Aracelis Spaulding, Contract Specialist, (617) 494-2979 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Contract Specialist, SpauldingA@volpe.dot.gov. Crash Data Analysis Support -- The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center has a requirement for a task order contract to perform vehicle crashworthiness and crash scenarios that occur on the United States (US) highways. The objective of this effort as defined in the task orders will be to perform analyses that will define existing or projected risks, fatalities, injuries and property damage based on the national crash experience statistics, registrations, vehicle miles traveled, vehicle characteristics and trends, speeds, and other relevant factors. Tasks yielding correlations between vehicle design attributes and safety performance, distributions of injury severities as a function of occupant position, age, restraint use, and crash type, and examinations of data sets from miscellane ous sources for their applicability would be typical during the duration of the contract. Contractor is required to have capabilities and experience in statistics, highway vehicle Crashworthiness, and highway crash databases. A CPFF task order type contract is anticipated for a three (3) year effort. The applicable SIC Code is 8734. The solicitation and any document related to this procurement will be available on the internet; these documents will be available on a WWW server which may be accessed using Web browsers. The WWW address, or URL, of the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page is: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html . Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitation s posting and availability for downloading may register at the Volpe Center site. Contractors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an accurate and complete e-mail address lies with the contractor. The Government will make no additional efforts to deliver information when the system indicates that transmissions cannot be delivered to the e-mail address provided. NO HARD COPIES of the solicitation may be mailed. Telephone requests will not be honored. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women- owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to a cquire short -- term working capital assistance for transportation -- related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, please call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. Posted 04/07/00 (D-SN442297). (0098)

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