West Virginia Rural Health Transformation Program - Transportation Services

The State of West Virginia has issued Grant Funding Opportunity GFO-0506-2700000000079-1 through the Rural Health Transformation Program. The solicitation is identified by the document description RHT-AFA-08-21-2026-RHL-VASO and procurement folder 2047563. The opportunity is classified as Grants Given and as a Grant Funding Opportunity. The solicitation was issued on August 21, 2026, and the West Virginia procurement portal lists the opportunity as open. The solicitation form identifies the Rural Health Transformation Program as the buyer contact and provides program contact information for questions concerning the opportunity. The associated commodity line is Government Aid, with grant or commodity code G84101604. The official solicitation form confirms a final phase, version 1. The purpose of the opportunity is to obtain proposals that will expand and strengthen transportation services across West Virginia. The source describes the effort as part of the West Virginia Rural Health Transformation Programs and establishes a statewide scope rather than identifying particular counties, cities, ZIP codes, or other sub-state service areas. Transportation services are the only substantive program activity specifically identified in the materials provided. The source does not provide additional details concerning allowable expenditures, prohibited expenditures, equipment purchases, personnel costs, indirect costs, subawards, or other spending restrictions. It also does not identify a grant start period or grant end period. The supplied solicitation materials do not state which types of organizations are eligible to apply. They do not specifically identify state agencies, local governments, tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, businesses, individuals, or other applicant classes as eligible or ineligible. Therefore, applicant eligibility cannot be assigned to a predefined organization category from the available source without additional solicitation documentation. The geographic scope, however, is explicitly West Virginia because the extended description states that the program seeks to expand and strengthen transportation services across West Virginia. No matching or cost-share requirement is stated in the supplied materials, and no required match percentage, ratio, or dollar amount is provided. The solicitation was issued August 21, 2026, and applications or offers are due September 4, 2026, at 11:59 PM. The procurement portal specifies EDT for the application close time. The portal separately shows the Application Open Date as unspecified, while identifying the opportunity's status as Open. The official solicitation PDF likewise provides the August 21 issue date and September 4 closing date. The supplied source does not identify a letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, initial application, or other pre-application gating requirement. It also does not describe a recurring annual, quarterly, biennial, or other repeating application cycle, so the opportunity is treated as a one-time currently active solicitation based on the information available. Applicants may submit questions through the end of the day on August 26, 2026. The extended description directs questions to gwyndolyn.m.mcgee@wv.gov and states that relevant answers will be made public. The procurement form identifies the Rural Health Transformation Program as the buyer contact and provides mike.sheets@wv.gov and 681-542-4971 for information. The materials supplied do not specify required proposal narratives, budgets, attachments, certifications, work plans, letters of support, financial statements, or other application components beyond the general requirement to submit a proposal. They also do not provide evaluation criteria or scoring weights in the supplied content, despite the portal containing an Evaluation Criteria section. No award floor, award ceiling, total program funding amount, estimated number of awards, or individual award range is stated in the supplied materials. Award notification timing is also not specified, and the grant start and end periods are blank. No previous recipients are identified. Because the available solicitation does not state a recurring schedule, a future application cycle should not be projected from the current deadline. Applicants should rely on the official solicitation and any publicly released responses to questions for requirements beyond those contained in the supplied materials. The application deadline remains September 4, 2026, at 11:59 PM EDT, with the applicant-question period ending August 26, 2026.

Address the stated objective of expanding and strengthening transportation services across West Virginia; submit applicant questions by August 26, 2026 and review the publicly released relevant answers