Railroad Employee Fatigue and Scheduling Pilot Program Study

The Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is seeking a contractor to conduct a pilot program or research project aimed at identifying fatigue countermeasures and methodologies to generate practices that maximize alertness and reduce employee fatigue. The contract type is firm-fixed-price, and the period of performance is 12 months from the contract effective date. The contractor will be required to deliver reports, analytic models, pilot-study outputs, fatigue-assessment methodologies, scheduling-framework materials, and associated documentation. 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. • The contractor will conduct research in areas such as human fatigue, human performance of railroad system operators, and organizational safety culture. • The contractor will identify fatigue countermeasures and methodologies to generate practices that maximize alertness and reduce employee fatigue. • The contractor will deliver reports, analytic models, pilot-study outputs, fatigue-assessment methodologies, scheduling-framework materials, and associated documentation. • 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.