USTDA selects Seneca for Mexican projects

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency has selected Seneca Group LLC to perform a Definitional Mission to Mexico covering several surface transportation modes.

Seneca Senior Associate Richard Sherman will be traveling to Mexico for the Mission, which will be conducted through September. He will be working with a range of potential sponsors in Mexico, including federal and local agencies, to develop project concepts in four areas: railroad at-grade crossing safety measures, municipal bus transit information systems, maritime port information technology and cybersecurity, and technologies for monitoring highways and analyzing and identifying causes of road accidents.

Sherman and USTDA welcome inquiries from U.S. suppliers of goods and services in the identified sectors. Seneca says it “is particularly seeking input from providers of systems, technologies, materials and services related to railroad at-grade crossings and port cybersecurity and operations.” Sherman “will be pleased to discuss his Definitional Mission activities with interested suppliers, and can arrange to meet with their employees or representatives when he is in Mexico,” Seneca said.

The Seneca Group, founded in 1998, and based in Washington, D.C., is a small business providing a range of consulting support to clients in the transportation sector. This project will be Seneca’s ninth with USTDA and its third for transportation in Mexico.

USTDA is an independent federal agency that provides grants to public and private project sponsors in middle and lower income countries to carry out feasibility studies, provide technical assistance or initiate pilot projects. USTDA grant-funded projects “should support economic and development goals of the host country and clearly create potential for future exports of U.S.-origin goods and services.”

USTDA grants typically approach or exceed $1 million.