Contract award
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO DEVELOP A FRAMEWORK USING MARKOV CHAINS TO QUANTIFY HOW DERAILMENT RISK CHANGES WHEN NEW TRACK INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES ARE INTRODUCED OR COMBINED WITH DIFFERENT MANUAL INSPECTION REGIMES.
- PIID
- 693JJ624C000016
- Award key
- CONT_AWD_693JJ624C000016_6930_-NONE-_-NONE-
- Recipient UEI
- QKWEF8XLMTT3
- Source as of
- —
Current award value
$151,9883
Obligated to date
$151,9882
Potential with options
$341,5283
- Awarding agency
- Department of TransportationFederal Railroad Administration
- Contractor
- UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
- PSC
- AS11 · TRANSPORTATION R&D SERVICES; SURFACE TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC TRANSIT, AND RAIL; BASIC RESEARCH
- Place of performance
- Houston, Texas
- Set-aside
- No set-aside used
- Pricing
- Firm Fixed Price
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition1 offers received
- Period of performance
- Aug 12, 2024 — Aug 19, 2025Through Aug 11, 2026 if all options are exercised
- Benchmark category
- Unclassified
Transaction history
Every action recorded against this award, in the order the government reported them.
| Mod | Action date | Reason | Obligation | Value at action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Aug 6, 2024 | Initial award | $151,988.00 | $151,988.00 |
| P00001 | May 16, 2025 | M | $0.00 | $151,988.00 |
| P00002 | Aug 19, 2025 | M | $0.00 | $151,988.00 |
| P00003 | Sep 8, 2026 | K | $0.00 | $151,988.00 |
Provenance
Which source record produced each displayed rollup figure.
| Field | Source | File | Retrieved | Parser | Artifact hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| awarding_agency_id | USAspending.gov | — | Sep 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 41762327355a |
| contractor_id | USAspending.gov | — | Sep 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 41762327355a |
| current_award_value | USAspending.gov | — | Sep 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 41762327355a |
| naics_code | USAspending.gov | — | Sep 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 41762327355a |
| potential_award_value | USAspending.gov | — | Sep 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 41762327355a |
| psc_code | USAspending.gov | — | Sep 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 41762327355a |
| total_obligated | USAspending.gov | — | Sep 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 41762327355a |
Sources and method
Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.
This page is a record of one federal award, assembled from the transactions the government published against it. Note 1 describes where the rollup came from. Values are award values, not unit prices.
- 1Rollup values derive from 4 transaction records parsed from USAspending.gov, retrieved Sep 10, 2026 by transform awards@2026.08.1.
- 2Obligations are the sum of signed federal action obligations across all transactions; deobligations are negative and remain negative.
- 3Current and potential award values are taken from the latest reported action, not summed across modifications.