Fiscal Year 2026 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Program
- Award ceiling
- Not stated
- Closes
- Sep 21, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
Per-recipient award not stated 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.
In one sentence
Fiscal Year 2026 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Program does not state a per-recipient award amount, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional…
- Program pool (total)
- $21,609,192Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- Not confirmed
- Award floor
- Not confirmed
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 21, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Jul 27, 2026
- Status
- Closed
- 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
- AK · AL · AR · AZ · CA · CO · CT · DC · DE · FL · GA · HI · IA · ID · IL · IN · KS · KY · LA · MA · MD · ME · MI · MN · MO · MS · MT · NC · ND · NE · NH · NJ · NM · NV · NY · OH · OK · OR · PA · RI · SC · SD · TN · TX · UT · VA · VT · WA · WI · WV · WY
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- replacing buses · rehabilitating buses · purchasing buses · leasing buses · related equipment · rehabilitating bus facilities · purchasing bus facilities · constructing bus facilities · leasing bus 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.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitEligible 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…
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
11:59 PM Eastern Time September 21, 2026
What can the money be used for?
9 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
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 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- Yes
What comparable notices state
8 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Sample too small. 8 open records stored under Transportation state an award ceiling, and no figures are shown below 10. Three records do not have a middle, and a median drawn from them would be read as a benchmark.
Who has won this programme before?
2932 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
2932 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.
- $444,450,133CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITYIL · FY2025
- $430,036,386CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITYIL · FY2023
- $428,529,896CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITYIL · FY2024
- $422,724,474CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITYIL · FY2022
- $350,576,387MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITYMA · FY2019
Common questions
6 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- 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.
- Which locations are eligible?
- AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
- What can the funding be used for?
- replacing buses, rehabilitating buses, purchasing buses, leasing buses, related equipment, rehabilitating bus facilities, purchasing bus facilities, constructing bus facilities, leasing bus facilities, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
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