The area council includes 113 local governments across 13 counties, contains 12,500 square miles and has more than 7 million residents, according to the documentation.
The request for proposal (RFP), project ID No. TRN23-02, was issued to meet the Federal Highway Administration's ITS requirements. H-GAC developed an ITS architecture in the early 2000s and then updated it in 2017.
The contract’s expected start date is October and will “collect sufficient information from system operators to update” the ITS architecture. The selected vendor will interview transportation agency staff and collect information on system architecture, information flow, existing and emerging projects, vehicle automation, integrated corridor management and communications.
Goals include:
- Bringing existing architecture to current national standards
- Developing various inventories
- Creating a geographic information system (GIS)
- Creating databases
- Creating a method of collecting information
- Meeting with various stakeholders
- Meeting with Texas Department of Transportation representatives
There will be a Zoom meeting at 2 p.m. July 6, and the sealed request is due Aug. 3.
