Fiscal Year 2024 Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Notice of Funding Opportunity

Details: 11/15/2023. Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Solicitation of Project Proposals for the Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility (ICAM) pilot program. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of $4.7 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 funding in this Notice of Funding Opportunity.  Synopses and full announcement are posted on Grants.gov site as opportunity FTA-2024-006-TPM-ICAM. Proposals must be submitted electronically through the Grants.gov website by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on 02/13/24.

Summary: The main purpose of the ICAM Program is to improve access to public transportation by building partnerships among health, transportation, and other service providers. This program provides competitive funding to support innovative projects for the transportation disadvantaged that will improve the coordination of transportation services and non-emergency medical transportation services (NEMT) for older adults, people with disabilities, and people of low-income. In the FY 2024 program, FTA intends to target funding for regional and statewide mobility management capital projects that support coordination and enable comprehensive community access, including access to NEMT, for underserved groups.

This pilot program will fulfill statutory requirements for the Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM) that are included in Section 3006 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, including demonstrating an allocated cost model and launching a comprehensive pilot program, as well as advancing the objectives of the CCAM 2023 Strategic Plan.

Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are designated or direct recipients of FTA’s Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disability Formula Program, governmental entities that operate a public transportation service, or their eligible subrecipients that have the authority and technical capacity to implement a regional or statewide cost allocation pilot.  Applicants must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database and maintain an active SAM registration with current information at all times during which it has an active Federal award or an application or plan under consideration by FTA.

Link and Instructions for attaching the supplemental form to the SF-424: All applicants must complete the attached supplemental form and attach it to their submission in GRANTS.GOV.

Dates: An applicant must submit a proposal electronically by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on 02/13/24. Any agency intending to apply should initiate the process of registering on the GRANTS.GOV site immediately to ensure completion of registration before the submission deadline. View the FY24 ICAM FAQs.

A webinar for the FY24 ICAM Pilot Program was held at 3:00 PM Eastern Time on December 14, 2023.

View the presentation | Watch the recording (Passcode: =m1z9R.w)

For Further Information Contact: For information on this RFP for Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility, contact Destiny Buchanan, FTA Office of Program Management, 202-493-8018, or consult our FAQs.