Opportunity

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Office of Acquisition issued solicitation 693JJ921R000034 to procure vehicle safety research services. This requirement is classified under NAICS 541380 Testing Laboratories and Services and PSC H923 OTHER QC/TEST/INSPECT- GROUND EFFECT VEHICLES, MOTOR VEHICLES, TRAILERS, AND CYCLES. Christopher Clarke serves as the point of contact for this opportunity, which has a response deadline of September 13, 2021. Documentation for this notice includes 12 attachments such as laboratory test procedures for frontal, oblique, and side impact testing, dummy damage checklists, and formal responses to industry questions.

Research efforts under this contract will be managed through the issuance of task orders to plan and conduct safety research tests on late model production and modified vehicles. The scope of work includes dynamic crash tests, static and dynamic rollover tests, sled tests, and pedestrian testing on vehicle exteriors. These activities involve vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-barrier impacts to evaluate the crash response of occupant restraints and human surrogates.

Contractors are required to handle, instrument, and perform qualification testing on anthropomorphic test dummies. The work also entails the development and fabrication of specialized test devices and fixtures for evaluating vehicles and dummies, as well as providing quality control for the data generated during testing. These research efforts support the agency’s goal of determining vehicle component performance in real-world crash scenarios.