Law Enforcement Strategy and HVE Toolkit to Prevent Illegal Passing of School Buses

Action Code: Sources Sought Classification Code: AJ11, GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY R&D SERVICES; GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; BASIC RESEARCH Solicitation: 693JJ921RQ000032 Agency/Office: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Location: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ NAICS Code: 541720, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, $22.0M. Point of Contract: Vincent Lynch, Contracting Officer, ph(202) 366-9568 Title: Law Enforcement Strategy and HVE Toolkit to Prevent Illegal Passing of School Buses Description(s): The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to identify potential qualified Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, VOSB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein to provide develop a national enforcement strategy to prevent the illegal passing of school buses, and to create a High Visibility Enforcement Toolkit to prevent illegal passing of school buses. NHTSA welcomes all qualified certified Small Business concerns with the appropriate NAICS Code and past experience to submit their Corporate Capability Statements that demonstrate their ability to successfully accomplish the goals of the proposed project as listed below. Special consideration will be afforded to government-wide initiatives calling for less redundancy through Category Management and annual increases to Best-In-Class (BIC) & Spend Under Management (SUM) goals for the Department of Transportation. Prior to consideration of soliciting on the open market, the government will conduct market research to identify those qualified small businesses on GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) and other GSA Schedule holding contractors listed under SIN 874-1, Integrated Consulting Services and/or 874-7, Integrated Business Program Support Services. NHTSA does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses to this notice or otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made; and no formal evaluation of the information received will be conducted by NHTSA. NHTSA may; however later on issue a Request for Proposals (RFP). However, should such a requirement fail to materialize, no basis for claims against NHTSA shall arise as a result of a response to this notice. Background: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) mission is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. The agency develops, promotes, and implements effective educational, engineering, and enforcement programs with the goal of ending vehicle crash tragedies and reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel. NHTSA conducts extensive research, development, testing, crash investigation, data collection, and analysis activities to provide the scientific basis needed to support the Agency's motor vehicle and traffic safety goals. In addition to supporting internal NHTSA efforts, NHTSA-sponsored research provides high-quality publicly-accessible data that serves as the basis for countless other research endeavors. Annually, the National Association State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS) requests that school bus operators (public and contracted) select a single school day to observe and report any instances of motorists illegally passing school buses on their daily route. In 2019, NASDPTS reported 95,494 instances of motorists illegally passing a school bus on a single day. If the average school year is 180 days, that means more than 17 million motorists illegal pass a school bus, in a school year. Students are about 70 times more likely to get to school safely when taking a bus instead of traveling by car. That is because school buses are designed to be safer than passenger vehicles in preventing crashes and injuries; and in every State, stop-arm laws protect children from other motorists. Unfortunately, injuries and fatalities occur more often outside or near a bus when a child is a pedestrian due to other motorists failing to heed the stop-arm warning than when a child is on the bus. The greatest risk to a child isn't riding a bus, but approaching or leaving one, making it imperative to consider bus stop Between 2008 and 2017, there were 1,241 people killed in school-transportation-related crashes, an average of 124 fatalities per year. Twenty-one percent (264) of these fatalities were of school-age children (18 and younger). Occupants of school transportation vehicles accounted for 10 percent of the fatalities, and nonoccupants (pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.) accounted for 20 percent (97) of the fatalities. A school-transportation-related crash is a crash that involves, either directly or indirectly, a school bus body vehicle or a non-school bus functioning as a school bus, transporting children to or from school or school-related activities. Of the 97 non-occupants killed in school transportation related crashes, fifty-five percent were struck by school buses, 1 percent by vehicles functioning as school buses, and 44 percent by other vehicles (passenger cars, light trucks and vans, large trucks, and motorcycles, etc.) involved in the crashes. Objective: The objective of the project is to develop a national enforcement strategy to prevent the illegal passing of school buses, to create a High Visibility Enforcement Toolkit to prevent illegal passing of school buses, and to conduct a demonstration project using the newly developed toolkit. Capabilities: The corporate capability statement must address the capabilities necessary to accomplish the scope outlined above as well as the additional tasks and characteristics given in the attached draft SOW. C.5 SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS The Contractor shall analyze and review existing resources, delivery mechanisms, and coordinate with SME's to acquire additional needed resources to compile the development a national enforcement strategy to prevent the illegal passing of school buses, and to create a High Visibility Enforcement Toolkit to prevent illegal passing of school buses. Outcomes and Deliverables Development of a national enforcement strategy and HVE toolkit to prevent illegal passing of school buses, and Complete a demonstration project on the developed HVE toolkit for preventing illegal passing of a school bus to test the effectiveness. Format of Corporate Capabilities Statement: Any interested qualified Small Business firms, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, VOSB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns should submit their Corporate Capability Statement, which demonstrates the firm's ability and past experience in no more than 10 pages to perform the key requirements described above to the identified NHTSA point of contact listed herein. Any proprietary information should be marked as such. All respondents are asked to certify the type and size of their business organization is in-line with the requirements of this Sources Sought Notice, and must be received no later than 5 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice.