Long-Term Pavement Performance Data Collection Services   3

Background
The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Infrastructure Research and Development administers the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program in cooperation with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the State Highway Agencies, and the National Academy of Science. The primary goal of the LTPP program is to understand how and why pavements perform as they do. To accomplish this goal, the program collects pavement performance data using standard data collection procedures and protocols on a variety of pavement types. Since 1989, the LTPP program has collected this information at nearly 2,509 pavement test sections throughout the United States and Canada.

Work Details
The objective of this contract is to provide technical non-personal services to collect, manage, and process pavement performance and other data in support of the LTPP program. The Contractor shall supply the necessary facilities, equipment, materials, personnel, supervision, and other items and services necessary to provide technical support to the LTPP and other FHWA research programs as defined in the Statement of Work (SOW). The scope of this contract includes the collection of site-specific data from LTPP test sections or other test sections of importance to FHWA, coordination of data collection efforts of other Contractors and highway agencies, quality control of data collection procedures and data, and entry of data into the LTPP program’s Pavement Performance Database and the Ancillary Information Management System. There are currently 332 active LTPP test sections located throughout the US and Canada where pavement performance and other data are still being collected. It is anticipated that data will be collected from approximately 100 to 150 test sections per year.

Period of Performance
The period of performance for this contract is 60 months from the date of award.

Place of Performance
The location(s) for work performed under this contract will be specified in each task order.