Bus Procurement Best Practices Update Webinar Presentation
Presentation for FTA’s Bus Procurement Best Practices Update Webinar, held on February 29, 2024.
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Dear Colleague Letter: Highlighting tools to improve bus procurement and manufacturing
Description: FTA is taking actions to strengthen the American bus manufacturing industry, lower bus costs, and accelerate transit vehicle deliveries. The guidance comes as transit agencies seek to procure buses using the historic investment provided by the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law....
Bus Procurement
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 greatly increased federal support to modernize and expand public transportation nationwide, including investments in the nation’s bus systems. FTA will administer $5.1 billion in formula and competitive grants through the Buses and Bus...
Guidance in Response to Cost and Payment Questions
In 2022 and 2023, several transit stakeholders have asked FTA to clarify a grant recipient’s ability to modify the prices of existing federally assisted contracts or to structure their federally assisted contracts using advance or progress payments.
FTA presents the below guidance in...
MassDot Risks, Concerns and Lessons Learned
This document was compiled with the purpose of identifying potential risks through different stages of the project. And have been known to exist on similar projects in the recent past. Besides highlighting a potential risk, where possible primary avenues of proactively mitigating these risks...
Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Section 7613 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
Section 7613 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA 2020), Pub. L. No. 116-92 (Dec. 20, 2019), added new subsection 49 U.S.C. § 5323(u) to federal public transportation law. Section 5323(u) limits the use of Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds, and in some...
Joint Procurement Clearinghouse User Guide
This user guide outlines how procurement officers can access and use the Joint Procurement Clearinghouse.
Joint Procurement Clearinghouse
To establish a mechanism to allow grantees to work together to purchase rolling stock, FTA has created an online tool for joint procurement. The Joint Procurement Clearinghouse, developed with input from the transit industry, is available to transit agency procurement staff through FTA’s Transit...