Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Nlets FRA Railroad Crossing Database Services

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Office of Railroad Safety (RRS) has a requirement to facilitate access to FRA's railroad crossing database by creating a mirror image of the database at Nlets. The National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (Nlets) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation owned and operated by the 50 States, districts and territories known as the Principal membership and is administered by a Board of Directors elected from those state law enforcement agencies. Nlets employs staff to run the system and network on a daily basis. Nlets is unique in that it operates an international system and network accessible by all criminal justice agencies and is the only provider of this capability in the US. The users of the network are criminal justice agencies, both state and federal and at all levels of government. There is no other entity in the United States public, private or governmental which provides this capability.