Alaska Highway Improvement Program Handbook Update

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is requesting information from vendors capable of providing contractual assistance to update the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Handbook. This includes evaluation and recommended changes to the narrative, processes, procedures, and supporting worksheets. This Request for Information (RFI) is meant to identify potential sources, project timeline, required capabilities, and summary of challenges inherent in modernization and potential reimagining of the policies and tools DOT&PF uses to deliver the HSIP and completing an update of the Alaska HSIP Handbook. The information provided by respondents does not need to be a comprehensive list of work tasks but should describe a highlevel conceptual model or approach to assist DOT&PF in developing cost and timeline estimates for this project. Respondents are encouraged to submit descriptions of similar projects completed, including the challenges that arose and how they were resolved. Responses should be geared toward describing how consultants would address the components described below and should include a rough idea of the level of effort based on past implementation of similar projects. Responses may include varying scales of implementation Its purpose is to reduce fatalities and serious injuries due to crashes on Alaskan roads. The HSIP manages funding from the following programs: Highway Safety Improvement Program Railway Highway Crossing Program (RHCP) Section 154 and 164 Penalty

Division 32 -	Exterior Improvements, Operation and Maintenance of Exterior Improvements.
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