EVALUATION OF TRIMARC PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES

An Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS), referred to as TRIMARC (Traffic Response and Incident Management Assisting the River Cities), was installed in the Louisville, Kentucky and southern Indiana area. A system integrator approach was used for the installation, operation, and maintenance of this system. The system integrator approach involved using Special Experimental Project No. 14 (SEP-14) procedures to procure the services of an equipment installation contractor. The SEP-14 process is an innovative means of procuring projects that may be uncharacteristic to the traditional projects normally encountered by highway departments. SEP-14 provides an opportunity to use and evaluate the contractual arrangements when an alternate process is more beneficial than the traditional processes. In this case, selection of the equipment installation contractor was based on criteria other than cost. The SEP-14 process allowed the equipment installation contract to be based on cost, schedule, and experience/past performance. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and success of the TRIMARC project including the SEP-14 process. The overall project has been received positively and the contract is now being extended to include a larger incident management program. The SEP-14 process has proven to provide the system integrator more flexibility with such aspects as receiving the specific equipment desired and contracting with an equipment installation contractor that had previous experience with similar projects. This resulted in time and cost savings to Kentucky and Indiana.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.13023/KTC.RR.2001.13
• Record URL:
  https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/16000/16300/16334/PB2000103435.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Kentucky, Lexington

  Kentucky Transportation Center
  College of Engineering, 176 Raymond Building
  Lexington, KY  United States  40506-0281

  Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

  200 Mero Street
  Frankfort, KY  United States  40622

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Osborne, M L
  • Pigman, J G
• Publication Date: 1999-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 30 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Contractors; Equipment; Installation; Procurement; Savings
• Geographic Terms: Indiana; Kentucky
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00789808
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: University of Kentucky, Lexington
• Report/Paper Numbers: KTC-99-49,, Interim Report
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Mar 17 2000 12:00AM