U.S. Department of Transportation Small Business Innovation Research Fiscal Year 2023 Solicitation   2

The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), is providing this notice to issue its Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Phase I solicitation pursuant to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The purpose of this solicitation is to invite U.S. small businesses to submit innovative research offers in response to the solicitation topics, which serve as key research areas for the U.S. DOT. Each small business concern submitting an offer must qualify as a small business in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR); 13 CFR 121.702. The applicable North American Industry Classification System code is 541715 with a size standard of 500 employees.

In addition to this SAM posting, the U.S. DOT SBIR FY 2023 Phase I solicitation and any documents related to it will be available on the U.S. DOT SBIR program website at http://www.volpe.dot.gov/work-with-us/small-business-innovation-research. This solicitation is issued through electronic means only; no hard copies will be available. A pre-offer webinar is being held on February 9, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Time. Information on the pre-offer webinar may be found in the solicitation on page i and/or from the U.S. DOT SBIR program website.

Technical questions and answers received on the SBIR FY23 topics released during the pre-solicitation period of January 4 through February 3, 2023 are available at https://usdot.uservoice.com/forums/950674. On the U.S. DOT SBIR program website there are frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) relative to the overall SBIR program. Offerors must go to the website to acces the FAQs.

As shown in the solicitation document, the U.S. DOT's topic list shared during the pre-solicitation period has been amended as follows:

Topic 23-PH2, Integrated RFID Trackers and Sensors for Hazardous Material Communication in Transportation, has been updated with clarifications. These updates are provided within the topic in the solicitation document.

Topic 23-PH4, Wearable PPE-integrated Sensors for First Responders, has been updated with clarifications. These updates are provided within the topic in the solicitation document.