AMES 8300 SURVEY PRO HIGH SPEED INERTIAL PROFILER

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE: THE EASTERN FEDERAL LANDS HIGHWAY DIVISION (EFLHD), OF THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION (FHWA), INTENDS TO PROCURE FROM AMES ENGINEERING, INC., LOCATED AT 1293 XE PL, AMES, IOWA, ONE (1) AMES 8300 SURVEY PRO HIGH SPEED PORTABLE INERTIAL PROFILING SYSTEM. AMES ENGINEERING MANUFACTURES THE AMES 8300 SURVEY PRO HIGH SPEED INERTIAL PROFILER. THE INERTIAL PROFILER MEETS ALL THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE EFLHD FIELD MATERIALS TEAM. CLASS I PROFILER MEETS ALL REQUIREMENTS OF ASTM E-950, AASHTO R56-10, R56-14 & R57-10 SYSTEM MOUNTS ON THE FRONT OR REAR OF HOST VEHICLE USING STANDARD 2" (51MM) RECEIVER HITCH SYSTEM IS COMPACT TO ALLOW FOR EASY INSTALLATION AND SHIPPING OF COMPONENTS CAPABLE OF COLLECTING MEASUREMENTS AT SPEEDS BETWEEN 8 AND 70 MPH (16 TO 112 KPH) LASER SENSORS ARE SHOCK MOUNTED TO REDUCE VIBRATION TO LASER AND ACCELEROMETER SENSOR LASER LATERAL POSITION ADJUSTABLE FROM 59" TO 75" (150 TO 190 CM) DUAL LASER SYSTEM CAPABLE OF COLLECTING PROFILE DATA IN BOTH WHEEL TRACKS SIMULTANEOUSLY VEHICLE LASER MOUNTING HARDWARE IS HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE TO ACCOMMODATE VARIOUS VEHICLES 5KHZ 2342 GOCATOR INTERFACE CONTROLLER THAT PERFORMS BOTH LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE BRIDGING OF THE DATA STREAM IN REAL TIME. AUTOMATIC SPEED-ADJUSTING FILTER THAT PREVENTS ALIASING OF THE DATA DUE TO BOTH SURFACE TEXTURE AND TINING CAUSING ELEVATED INDEX CALCULATIONS LASER-TYPE HEIGHT SENSOR LMI 5KHZ 2342 GOCATOR LASER SENSOR HORIZONTAL DISTANCE MEASURED WITH AN OPTICAL ENCODER LOCATED ON THE REAR WHEEL OF THE VEHICLE WITH A DISTANCE ACCURACY OF 0.15% OR PRO GPS-DMI WITH ACCURACY BETTER THAN 0.1% GPS/DMI SYSTEM OPTION WITH DISTANCE ACCURACY OF 0.05% GPS REFERENCE SYSTEM OPTION FOR COLLECTING STATIC GPS REFERENCE POINTS GPS TRACER OPTION FOR LOCATING AREAS OF LOCALIZED ROUGHNESS PAVEMENT ELEVATION SAMPLE STORAGE: 1" INCH PROFILE WAVELENGTH RANGE: .5 TO 6,400 FEET ACCELEROMETER RESOLUTION: 0.0001G VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT SENSOR RESOLUTION: 0.000393 INCH COMPUTER HARDWARE: RIGHT OF WAY CAMERA IMAGING SYSTEM FOR LOGGING IMAGES WITH GPS STATIONING AND PROFILE LOCATIONS GPS-DMI DISTANCE MEASUREMENT AND REFERENCE SYSTEM RUGGED PANASONIC CF-54 TOUGH BOOK LAPTOP COMPUTER WITH WINDOWS 10 OPERATING SYSTEM COLOR 14" 1000 NIT HD TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY WIRED ETHERNET CONNECTION FROM LAPTOP TO DATA ACQUISITION COMPUTER 20 HZ GPS RECEIVER ALLOWS USER TO REFERENCE PROFILE DATA TO GPS LOCATION AUTO START/STOP SENSOR ALLOWS FOR AUTOMATIC TRIGGERING OF, START, STOP, EVENT AND IGNORED SECTIONS ETHERNET CONNECTION FROM DATA ACQUISITION COMPUTER TO LASER SENSORS AND AUTO START ALL ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS HOUSED IN WATER RESISTANT AND DUST TIGHT ENCLOSURES WINDOWS BASED DATA COLLECTION AND PROFILE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE DATA FORMAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE MOST UP TO DATE PROVAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARE DISPLAY PROFILE AND CONTINUOUS IRI IN REAL TIME WHILE DATA IS BEING COLLECTED A WINDOWS PROFILE VIEWER OPTION THAT ALLOWS USER TO ZOOM AND SCROLL THROUGH PROFILE DATA GOOGLE EARTH MAPPING OF PROFILE PLOT USING GPS DATA CALCULATES, PROFILE INDEX (PI), INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX (IRI), MEAN (IRI), HALF-CAR ROUGHNESS INDEX (HRI), RIDE QUALITY INDEX (RQI), AND RIDE NUMBER (RN) DISPLAYS AND PLOTS TRUE PROFILE, CALIFORNIA PROFILOGRAPH PROFILE, ROLLING STRAIGHTEDGE, AND AUTOMATIC BUMP DETECTION FEATURE EQUIPPED WITH VARIABLE HIGH AND LOW PASS FILTER OPTIONS PROFILE VIEWER WITH GPS TRACER FEATURE IDENTIFIES LOCATION OF "AREAS OF LOCALIZED ROUGHNESS" EQUIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING EXPORT FILE OPTIONS: PROFILE ELEVATION POINTS, ASCII, .ERD FORMAT, GOOGLE EARTH .KML, PROVAL .PPF, TEXAS .PRO OUTPUT, AND GENERATED REPORT TABLES PROVIDE TWO COMPLETE SETS OF USER MANUALS (IF HARD COPIES) OR ONE ELECTRONIC FILE. INCLUDE A SET OF DRAWINGS AND DIAGRAMS, EXCEPT FOR THE CHOSEN COMPUTER AND ANY PROPRIETARY ELECTRONICS, FOR ALL EQUIPMENT SO THAT THE PURCHASER WILL BE ABLE TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THE IPS PROPERLY PROVIDE TRAINING FOR APPROXIMATELY 4 OPERATORS. THE TRAINING SHALL COVER INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE, SERVICE, CALIBRATION, AND OPERATION OF THE PORTABLE PROFILER AND SOFTWARE. PROVIDE A WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING TO BE PROVIDED INCLUDING TIME AND TRAINING MATERIALS PROVIDED. ITEMS WILL BE SHIPPED TO THE MATERIALS LABORATORY OF THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION LOCATED AT 1827 JACK DELOZIER DRIVE, SEVIERVILLE, TENNESSEE 37876. ALL RESPONSIBLE SOURCES MAY SUBMIT A QUOTATION WHICH, IF RECEIVED BY 2:00 PM, EST, SEPTEMBER 14, 2017, SHALL BE CONSIDERED BY THE AGENCY. ALL RESPONSES MUST MEET ALL SPECIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS IN THE STATEMENT OF WORK.