Support the Grade Crossing Inventory System (GCIS)

The Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, DC, intends to award a Sole Source, Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract to Actionet, Inc, 2600 Park Tower Drive, Suite 1000 Vienna, VA 22180. This source possesses unique knowledge and capabilities required to perform this service. The value of the contract is expected to be $346,000. The proposed contract action, for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of FAR 6.302, is for services required to support the Grade Crossing Inventory System (GCIS) requirement, with the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008, The completion of phase 2 of this requirement is necessary to complete the development, testing and deployment of the redesigned GCIS. This effort directly supports the new grade crossing regulation and will include a web application programming interface (API), as well as modifications to applications that use the data in GCIS.