Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN)   2

Background
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has a mission to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. The agency aims to end vehicle crash tragedies and reduce economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel. The Office of Vehicle Safety Research conducts extensive research, development, testing, crash investigation, and data collection and analysis activities to provide the scientific basis needed to support the Agency’s motor vehicle and traffic safety goals.

Work Details
The contract seeks to continue investigating crashes involving seriously injured occupants of modern vehicles, while also including non-occupants. The research will provide a basis for future safety standards and consumer information metrics. The objectives of the contract include expanding understanding of human injury causation in motor vehicle crashes by conducting in-depth investigations and performing multi-disciplinary reviews of case subjects’ outcomes.

The data generated in these studies will provide the impact biomechanics and automobile safety community with highly-detailed field-based data that can support trend analysis and research related to advanced dummies and models, injury criteria, restraint performance, and vehicle design.

Period of Performance
The anticipated period of performance is one (1) two-year base period and three (3) one (1) year option periods to be exercised at the discretion of the government. The maximum total period of performance will be for five (5) consecutive years if all options are exercised.

Place of Performance
The work performed under the proposed Contract shall be accomplished at the Contractor’s facilities located within the continental United States.