Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Program Engineering Services Contract (LPES)

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is seeking industry responses for a multi-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide comprehensive engineering services supporting the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program. This five-year contract will require awardees to deliver end-to-end pavement performance data collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination, leveraging advanced technologies such as high-speed 3D pavement profiling, Traffic Speed Deflection Devices, and Falling Weight Deflectometers. Contractors are responsible for both historical and newly acquired pavement datasets, ensuring compliance with FHWA Data Governance policies, the Data Quality Act, and QC/QA standards validated through manual ground-truth verification and statistical equivalence testing. Data must be packaged, labeled, and integrated into the LTPP InfoPave™ platform as analysis-ready datasets compatible with AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design, and translated into practical engineering tools, guidelines, predictive models, technical reports, and public-facing products such as webinars and newsletters. The contract scope encompasses national field operations, with primary administrative performance centered at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia, and oversight managed from the FHWA office in Washington, DC. Proposals must be submitted as a single, 10-page PDF capability statement not exceeding 5 MB, adhering to double-spaced, 12-point font formatting, and must demonstrate proven expertise in pavement engineering, LTPP program knowledge, cloud-based data systems, and statistical quality assurance. Respondents must declare their size status under NAICS code 541715 and list applicable socioeconomic classifications, though no UEI or CAGE code submission is explicitly required at this stage. While no formal evaluation weights or scoring methodology are published, the solicitation emphasizes technical merit over cost, suggesting a trade-off selection process rather than LPTA. The contract ceiling is established at $16 million over five years, with task orders to be competitively awarded based on demonstrated capabilities in data acquisition, analysis, and engineering insight translation. No contract clauses, special provisions, key personnel designations, security clearances, or FOB terms are specified in the sources sought notice, as this is a pre-solicitation market research effort aimed at identifying qualified vendors prior to formal release. Responses are due by August 5, 2026, at 2:00 PM ET and must be emailed as a PDF to Tamiko.Aikens@dot.gov.