Railroad Employee Fatigue and Scheduling Pilot Program Study

PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE

1. General Information

Document Type: Pre-Solicitation Notice
Notice ID: FR26RDI20000000059
Title: Railroad Employee Fatigue and Scheduling Pilot Program Study
Department/Agency: Department of Transportation (DOT) / Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Office: Office of Acquisition Services / Office of Research, Development & Technology
Classification Code (PSC): AS12 Transportation R&D Services; Surface transportation, public transit, and rail; Applied Research
NAICS Code: 541720 – Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Set-Aside: Full and Open / Unrestricted

2. Description & Requirement Details

The Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Human Factors Division conducts research in areas such as human fatigue, the human performance of railroad system operators, and organizational safety culture. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, SEC. 22408 (Completion of Hours of Service and Fatigue Studies), requires the FRA to conduct pilot studies concerning employee scheduling practices. In response, the FRA’s Human Factors Division must conduct a pilot program or research project aimed at identifying fatigue countermeasures and methodologies to generate practices that maximize alertness and reduce employee fatigue.
Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price
Period of Performance:12 months from Contract Effective Date.

The Government will obtain perpetual, non‑exclusive, irrevocable rights to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, and create derivative works from all deliverables produced under this contract, including reports, analytic models, pilot‑study outputs, fatigue‑assessment methodologies, scheduling‑framework materials, and any associated documentation.

These rights include permission from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to share the deliverables within the Department of Transportation (DOT), other Federal agencies, State/local agencies, and regulated stakeholders for safety, research,...