AWARDDELIVERY ORDERSmall business
Delivery order 016SHARMA & ASSOCIATES INC
Overview
Award facts
- Net obligations
- $249.76K
- $249,760of $249.76K potential value
- Period of performance
- Sep 13, 2011 to Sep 30, 2013
- Ended
- Modifications
- 2
- Latest action Jun 24, 2025
- Contract type
- Delivery order
- PIID 016
Description of requirement
LOCOMOTIVE OPERATING PRACTICES RESEARCH TO REDUCE DERAILMENT/COLLISION RISK THROUGH IMPROVED TRAIN MAKE-UP AND TRAIN HANDLING. TEDS AND OTHER SIMULATION PROGRAM WILL BE USED. RECENT ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY POOR TRAINMAKE UP AND TRAIN HANDLING WILL BE EXAMINED TO PRESCRIBE BETTER PROCEDURES. THESE CAN LEAD TO GUIDELINES WHICH THE OFFICE OF AFETY HAS LONG SOUGHT.
Dates and value
- Award date
- Signed on Sep 13, 2011
- Potential end of performance
- Sep 29, 2013
- Current value
- $249,760Base and exercised options
- Potential value (if all options are exercised)
- $249,760
- Parent contract vehicle
- DTFR5307D00002 (IDC, multiple award) — 10 orders recorded under it
Obligations by fiscal year of action
- FY2025: -$182 (de-obligation)
- FY2011: $249,942
Total across 2 fiscal years: $249,760
Net de-obligation in that fiscal year (obligations withdrawn).
Source: Federal Procurement Data System contract actions as published by SAM.gov and USAspending.gov; latest action recorded Jun 24, 2025. View on USAspending · Recipient on SAM.gov
Recipient
LocationHINSDALE, IL
UEIEQ76N7H4NW57
CAGE code3SPB3
Business sizeSmall businessSize at award, per the contracting officer
Parent companySHARMA & ASSOCIATES INC
Business types and certifications
Minority-ownedSmall disadvantaged business (SDB)Self-certified small disadvantaged business
Self-reported at the time of the action.
Agency and place
Awarding and funding
- Awarded by
- Department of Transportation
- Federal Railroad Administration
- 693JJ6 FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMIN
- Funded by
- Department of Transportation
- Federal Railroad Administration
- 693JJ6 FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMIN
Place of performance
- Place of performance
- Hinsdale, Dupage County, Illinois 60521-4912
- Congressional district (place of performance)
- IL-04As reported at the time of the action
Classification and competition
Classification
- Product or service (PSC)
- AD24R&D- DEFENSE OTHER: SERVICES (ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT) (research and development)
Competition
- Extent competed
- Full and open competitionA
- Solicitation procedures
- Subject to multiple award fair opportunityMAFO
- Set-aside
- No set-aside used
- Contract pricing
- Cost plus fixed feeU
- Offers received
- 1
Contract details
- Major program
- Risk reduction through improved train makeup and train handling
- Service Contract Act labor standards
- No
- Commercial procedures
- Commercial products/services procedures not usedD
- Government-furnished property
- Transaction does not use GFE/GFPN
- Bundled requirement
- Not a bundled requirementD
- Consolidated requirement
- No
- Undefinitized action (terms not final)
- No
- Multi-year contract
- No
- Performance-based service acquisition
- No - service where PBA is not used.N
Transaction history
Modification history
- Base award
- Sep 13, 2011Base obligation at award: $249,942
- Latest action
- Jun 24, 2025 — CloseoutModification P00002; obligation change -$182; administrative: no change in scope or value
- Actions by type
- Base award1
- Closeout1
- Other administrative action1
All contract data
All contract data
Every other field reported for this award, as of its latest reported action
Competition
- Evaluation preference
- No preference used
- Local area set-aside
- No
- Simplified procedures for commercial items
- No
- A-76 (FAIR Act) action
- No
Pricing and financing
- Paid by purchase card
- No
- Latest action: change in base and exercised options
- -$182
- Latest action: change in base and all options
- -$182
Socio-economic and policy
- Recovered materials and sustainability
- No clauses included and no sustainability includedC
- EPA-designated product
- Not requiredE
- Clinger-Cohen Act planning (IT)
- No
Place and origin
- Country of product or service origin
- United statesUSA
- Place of manufacture
- Not a manufactured end productC
Structure
- Award or IDV
- Award
- Award type
- Delivery orderC
- Parent vehicle type
- IDCB
- Parent vehicle: multiple or single award
- Multiple awardM
- Parent vehicle agency
- Federal Railroad Administration6930
- Awarding agency code
- 6900
- Awarding sub-tier code
- 6930
- Contracting office code
- 693JJ6
- Transactions recorded under this award key
- 3
Funding
- Funding agency code
- 6900
- Funding sub-tier code
- 6930
- Funding office code
- 693JJ6