Fiscal Year 2026 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Program

Award ceiling
up to $0
Closes
Sep 21, 2026
Last verified
2026-09-08

Awards up to $0 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), state governments, closing Sep 21, 2026.

City or township governmentsCounty governmentsNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)State governmentsTransportation

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Fiscal Year 2026 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Program awards up to $0 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional information on…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$21,609,192
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$0
Award floor
$0
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Sep 21, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Jul 27, 2026
Status
Closing soon
Eligible entities
City or township governments · County governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · State governments
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing or leasing buses or related equipment · rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing or leasing bus-related facilities
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$21,609,192
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$0

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), State governments
Source field: entity types
industry
Source field: industries
use
rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing or leasing bus-related facilities, replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing or leasing buses or related equipment
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Eligible applicants for the Buses and Bus Facilities Program include designated recipients that allocate funds to fixed route bus operators, States (including territories and Washington D.C.) or local governmental entities that operate fixed route bus service, and Indian tribes. Eligible subrecipients include all otherwise eligible applicants and also private nonprofit organizations engaged in public transportation. Except for projects proposed by Indian tribes, all proposals for projects in rural (non-urbanized) areas must be submitted by a State, either individually or as a part of a statewide application.

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When does it close?

Sep 21, 202613 daysDeadline type Fixed date

11:59 PM Eastern Time September 21, 2026

What can the money be used for?

2 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing or leasing buses or related equipmentrehabilitating, purchasing, constructing or leasing bus-related facilities

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes

What comparable notices state

18 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Transportation, 18 of 24 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$712,500
  • Median$5,500,000
  • 75th percentile$10,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Who has won this programme before?

2000 awards
Awards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

2000 federal awards on file under assistance listing 20.526, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

6 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $0 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$21,609,192 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Sep 21, 2026. 11:59 PM Eastern Time September 21, 2026
Who is eligible to apply?
City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), State governments.
What can the funding be used for?
replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing or leasing buses or related equipment, rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing or leasing bus-related facilities, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds.

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Also open under assistance listing 20.526

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-08
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-04
Assistance listing20.526

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