SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Providing Products and Services to State Highway Safety Offices - Sources Sought
- Notice Date
- 2/4/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTNH2215RQ-00332
- Point of Contact
- Vincent Lynch, Phone: 202-366-9568
- E-Mail Address
-
vincent.lynch@dot.gov
(vincent.lynch@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Synopsis Sources Sought Notice with intent on Sole Soucre Procurement. Action Code: P Classification Code: R Title: Providing Products and Services to State Highway Safety Offices Agency/Office: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Location: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ NAICS Code: 541611, Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services, $15 Million. Response Date: February 19, 2015 Point of Contract: Vincent C. Lynch, Contracting Officer, (202) 366-9568. Solicitation Number: DTNH2215RQ-00332 Description: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) intends to negotiate with Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), to provide timely, efficient, effective support to NHTSA, and its State partners including highway safety offices, in the management of traffic safety services. The associated activities include: the establishment and maintenance of the National LEL Coordinator; services and communication between the National LEL Coordinator and the State/local LEL; training for LELs including national meetings and/or training (including participation in and delivery of training, meetings, and workshops); researching, writing and providing information to State highway safety offices related to Traffic Safety Grants (currently noted in MAP-21 and for future authorizations) and to provide for outreach from NHTSA to State Highway Safety Offices and their partners. Background: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) whose primary mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity. This is accomplished by setting and enforcing safety performance standards for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment as well as fuel economy standards, investigating safety defects in motor vehicles, conducting research on driver behavior and traffic safety, and providing grants to State and local governments to enable them to conduct effective local highway safety programs. Vehicles on our nation's roadways are the safest in the world, and we remain dedicated to making them safer every day. Continuing advances in automotive technology and vehicle innovation have created completely new possibilities for improving highway safety and offer enormous safety potential. But the data reminds us that three persistent facts remain in traffic safety- • Fifty percent of all people killed in crashes are unbelted; • Thirty percent of all highway fatalities involve an impaired driver; and • Ninety percent of all crashes involve an element of human error. The Nation has seen a continuous and steady decline in highway traffic fatalities. In 2011, overall traffic fatalities reached the lowest level since 1949. This translates to a 1.9 percent decrease in fatalities from 2010 to 2011. However, given that an estimated 33,561 people still died in roadway crashes in 2012, much work remains to be done to improve highway safety on our Nation's roadways. In order for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to effectively continue its mission of saving lives, preventing injuries, and reducing economic costs due to road traffic crashes, the agency is requesting $851 million in FY 2015. The efforts of NHTSA are ongoing to conduct rulemaking, enforcement, and vehicle research, as well as to develop and implement data-driven, workable, and self-sustaining highway safety programs that reduce highway injuries and fatalities. NHTSA provides grants to states and local communities, and supports research, demonstration projects, and countermeasure programs designed to prevent motor vehicle crashes and reduce their associated economic costs. The hard work and dedication of NHTSA's staff and the programs they administer directly translate to the prevention of senseless motor vehicle crashes, and lives saved on our Nation's roadways. While strengthening NHTSA's long-term focus on impaired driving and occupant protection, the FY 2015 budget includes a number of new approaches to address emerging safety concerns and to use resources more efficiently. Educating roadway users and community leaders to adopt safe behaviors, in conjunction with effective law enforcement have helped to reduce fatalities to the lowest levels in reported history. NHTSA will sustain participation with law enforcement, officers, prosecutors and judges in priority agency behavioral programs. Active participation of criminal justice professionals is crucial to the success of the Agency's key programs, especially occupant protection, alcohol and drug impaired driving initiatives, speed management, and driving while distracted, primarily through texting and cell phone usage. This initiative will continue to mobilize and enable a network of peer outreach law enforcement liaisons (LELs) to advance NHTSA programs and provide ongoing technical assistance to law enforcement at the state and local level. Public Law 112-141, MAP-21, authorizes Traffic Safety Grants in FY 2013 and FY 2014. MAP-21 authorizes Sec. 402 and Sec. 2009, consolidates several grants as Sec. 405 and funds new Sec. 405 grants for Distracted Driving Grants, State Graduated Driver Licensing Laws, and In-Vehicle Alcohol Detection Device Research. States are a vital partner in improving safety on our nation's roadways. The requested funding for the Section 402 State and Community Highway formula grants to help support the implementation of a comprehensive statewide traffic safety enforcement program to ensure continued traffic enforcement in resource challenged states and communities, and to pool funding across jurisdictions for joint highway safety programs. NHTSA is also requesting the authorized drawdown from the Section 402 grant program to establish important initiatives to improve the ability of states to manage traffic safety. This cooperative research and evaluation program of highway safety countermeasures would develop research and demonstration programs and projects with the states to respond to state identified emerging issues. This program is proposed to be jointly managed by NHTSA and the States, as noted in P.L. 112-141, MAP-21. Core GHSA members are the designated administrators for highway safety grant programs in the States, responsible for planning and implementing the State's Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). Designed to reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes, the SHSP is a statewide-coordinated safety plan that provides a comprehensive framework for activities on all public roads. The SHSP is developed by in a cooperative process with Local, State, Federal, and private sector safety stakeholders. The SHSP is a data-driven, four to five year comprehensive plan that establishes statewide goals, objectives, and key emphasis areas and integrates the four E's - engineering, education, enforcement and emergency medical services (EMS). The primary purpose of this project is to provide technical assistance for traffic safety including law enforcement for State Highway Safety Offices (HSOs), NHTSA Headquarters, NHTSA Regional Offices and to communicate and assist in the implementation of NHTSA national priorities and programs as noted above. This assistance may also be used for the State partners that they serve, particularly their law enforcement partners. Objective: The objective of this Contract is to provide timely, efficient, effective support to NHTSA, and its State partners including highway safety offices, in the management of traffic safety services. This section describes the responsibilities associated with each known service (including efforts obligated under MAP-21). The associated activities include: the establishment and maintenance of the National LEL Coordinator; services and communication between the National LEL Coordinator and the State/local LEL; training for LELs including national meetings and/or training (including participation in and delivery of training, meetings, and workshops); researching, writing and providing information to State highway safety offices related to Traffic Safety Grants (currently noted in MAP-21 and for future authorizations) and to provide for outreach from NHTSA to State Highway Safety Offices and their partners.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOT/NHTSA/NHTSAHQ/DTNH2215RQ-00332/listing.html)
- Record
- SN03633679-W 20150206/150205000347-7fe7b228a65d50d877bce96c36047877 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |