Broad Agency Announcement AMR Posting

Broad Agency Announcement

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BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Federal Highway Administration
Office of Technical Services
Accelerating Market Readiness Program 2024
October 29, 2024

Broad Agency Announcement

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INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Technical Services (OTS), Accelerating Market Readiness (AMR) Program is announcing its intent to solicit white papers and proposals under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). This BAA is developed in accordance with FAR 6.102(d)(2) and FAR 35.016. This BAA involves the use of a 5-year Open BAA to quickly and efficiently deliver projects that help accelerate market readiness to deliver practical solutions to high priority problems. This strategy will provide FHWA an acquisition tool with the flexibility to solicit white papers and proposals and make awards to meet present and compelling needs.
White papers and proposals will only be solicited and accepted during individual calls. Calls for white papers and proposals will occur periodically throughout the life of the BAA. Each call will: (1) identify specific topic areas; (2) identify any changes to the standard evaluation criteria or white paper and/or proposal preparation instructions, and (3) contain cutoff dates for submissions.
This BAA is an expression of interest only and does not commit the Government to pay any proposal preparation costs. All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs may submit a proposal. The Government reserves the right to award either contracts, assistance agreements, or other instruments determined to be of benefit to the Government in achieving the goals of this program.
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Background

Successfully integrating new innovations into widespread use can take many years, often due to the gap between research and practice when a technology has been proven but is not yet ready for the marketplace. The Federal Highway Administration’s AMR program advances transformative innovations by funding testing and field evaluations, pilot demonstration projects, and documentation and dissemination of performance results to widen the knowledge base on the innovations. The goal is to move innovations into the marketplace that offer significant improvement over similar, currently available innovations or practices to accelerate project delivery. The AMR program helps move promising highway industry innovations from prototype to market. The AMR program supports key U.S. Department of Transportation and