"Standards Enforcement Program for Laboratory Testing to FMVSS No. 108, "Lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment." and FMVSS No. 125, "Warning devices".

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an Operating Administration of the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), and its mission is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce economic costs associated with motor vehicle crashes. As part of its mission, NHTSA promulgates Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS).  Manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment are required to certify that each product they sell in the United States meets the requirements of all applicable safety standards. NHTSA’s Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance (OVSC) is charged with determining whether manufacturers meet the applicable safety standards. This contract effort will enable the Agency to meet its mission by assuring that motor vehicles meet the requirements in FMVSS No. 108, Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment and FMVSS No. 125, Warning Devices.

FMVSS No. 108, Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment, establishes requirements for original and replacement lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment. The purpose of this standard is to reduce traffic accidents and deaths and injuries resulting from traffic accidents, by ensuring adequate illumination of the roadway and by enhancing the conspicuity of motor vehicles on public roads so that their presence is perceived and their signals understood, both in daylight and in darkness or in other conditions of reduced visibility. The standard applies to passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles (MPVs), trucks, buses, trailers (except pole trailers and trailer converter dollies), and motorcycles as well as to lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment for replacement of like equipment on the vehicles mentioned above.  The requirements for compliance testing of motor vehicle lighting equipment are specified in TP-108-13 as applicable.   

FMVSS No. 125, Warning Devices, establishes requirements for devices, without self-contained energy sources, that are designed to be carried in motor vehicles and used to warn approaching traffic of the presence of a stopped vehicle. This does not include devices designed to be permanently affixed to the vehicle. The purpose of this standard is to reduce deaths and injuries due to rear end collisions between moving traffic and disabled vehicles. The requirements for compliance testing for motor vehicle warning devices are specified in TP-125-01 as applicable.

The requirements of this Contract are to purchase test items, conduct laboratory testing, and prepare test reports so that the Government can determine whether test items comply with the requirements of FMVSS No. 108, FMVSS No. 125, and associated TPs.