Task Order Support for ACRP Insight Events
The Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) provides practical solutions to challenges faced by airport industry practitioners. Not all challenges lend themselves to applied research or to published solutions due to their dynamic or unsettled nature, lack of maturity, or because the state of knowledge or practice is still evolving. Nonetheless, the airport industry would benefit from a deeper understanding and dialog on many of these challenges even if an immediate solution is not practical. Established in 2015, ACRP Project 11-08, ACRP Insight Events convene airport-industry leaders and subject-matter experts (SMEs) in various fields to encourage discussion and promote broader and deeper insight on topics of significance to airport operators. Consistent with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the definition of a convening event, such as an ACRP Insight Event, is intended to create a communal environment that fosters dialogue across sectors, institutions, and industries. Insight Events are selected by the ACRP Oversight Committee (AOC). Expectations are that each event will take place within 12 months of AOC funding authorization. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) will seek approvals from the Executive Committee of the Governing Board (GBEC) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and will follow established TRB guidelines for the conduct of each event. ACRP research cannot produce policy recommendations, or advice to federal agencies or to Congress. ACRP applied research projects publish contractor-authored reports. ACRP Insight Events are convening events of the National Academies and we may publish summaries of the events. ACRP cannot publish recommendations from an Insight Event. The sole purpose of an ACRP Insight Event is to gather airport-industry leaders and SMEs in various fields to encourage discussion and promote broader and deeper insight on topics of significance to airport operators and their stakeholders. An ACRP Insight Event may result in webinar-style video recordings, web content, podcasts, infographics, or meeting notes. Other products, such as event summaries, a forum or workshop in brief, or proceedings, are possible through an Academies report review and then published by the National Academies. Guidelines for such products are strict and rigid. Although ACRP Insight Events do not produce solutions themselves, they illuminate issues that need attention. Each ACRP Insight Event will have topic experts on the planning committee to design and develop activities for the event. Usually, planning committee members are selected based on each individual’s expertise, but other considerations may be a factor. Government officials and industry associations may serve in ex officio capacity on planning committees. Among other outcomes, ACRP Insight Events may lead to opportunities for further work appropriate for ACRP research projects. For example, the activities of an ACRP Insight Event may result in one or more ACRP problem statements, which may lead to funding an ACRP applied research project, legal study, or synthesis of practice. ACRP needs a mechanism to procure consultant services that is responsive to the AOC’s needs for a quick-response capability to convene ACRP Insight Events. The mechanism involves prequalification and selection of a small number of service providers who can respond quickly and competitively, with requisite capabilities, to task-orders for specific events. This request for statements of interest, qualifications, and availability will be used to establish task-order contracts to undertake events in FY 2020 through 2023. The objectives of this project are to select two to four task-order contractors as the means to develop a flexible, ongoing, quick-response to conduct numerous ACRP Insight Events as described above. Services to be provided include logistical support, background topic research, group facilitation, event promotion, rapporteur services, communications, web content, outreach and promotion, onsite event support, and final product delivery. As specific topics are selected and authorized by the AOC and released for development, the selected task-order contractors will be invited to prepare an event proposal (i.e., a research plan, staffing plan, and budget) to carry out an ACRP Insight Event on that specific topic. The proposals will be evaluated by a subcommittee of the AOC and used to select a team under the task-order contract. Task-order contractors preparing event proposals may add subcontractors or consultants to their teams for the purpose of completing a specific event. Along with responses to this request for qualifications, proposals are also requested on the two events for FY 2020.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Proposed
- Funding: $300000
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Contract Numbers:
Project 11-08
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Sponsor Organizations:
Airport Cooperative Research Program
Transportation Research Board
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001Federal Aviation Administration
800 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC United States 20591 -
Project Managers:
Greenberger, Marci
- Start Date: 20191201
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- Source Data: RiP Project 40425
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Airport operations; Airports; Research; Stakeholders; Workshops
- Identifier Terms: Airport Cooperative Research Program
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; Terminals and Facilities;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01580351
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
- Contract Numbers: Project 11-08
- Files: TRB, RIP
- Created Date: Nov 5 2015 11:01AM