Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center (Region 5)

The U.S. Department of Transportation, through the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, is offering the Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center (Region 5) opportunity under Assistance Listing 20.910, Assistance to Small and Disadvantaged Businesses. The opportunity is a federal discretionary funding notice and will be awarded through a cooperative agreement. The Department expects to make one award under this Region 5 opportunity. The estimated total program funding is 382925 dollars, and both the stated award floor and award ceiling are 382925 dollars. The purpose of the cooperative agreement is to support an eligible organization in providing outreach and assistance to the small business community within its designated region. The funded organization is expected to provide financial and technical assistance, business training programs, business assessment, management training, counseling, marketing and outreach, and dissemination of information. These activities are intended to encourage and assist small businesses in becoming better prepared to compete for, obtain, and manage transportation related contracts and subcontracts funded by the Department of Transportation at the federal, state, and local levels. For purposes of the notice, transportation related activity includes the maintenance, rehabilitation, restructuring, improvement, or revitalization of any of the nation's modes of transportation. The opportunity provides an award of 382925 dollars, with estimated total program funding also listed as 382925 dollars. One award is expected. Cost sharing or matching is explicitly required, although the provided Grants.gov synopsis does not state the required match amount, percentage, ratio, or other formula. The synopsis also does not provide additional details regarding indirect cost limits, subaward restrictions, the period of performance, or other spending limitations. Applicants should therefore rely on the complete funding announcement and application package for any requirements not contained in the synopsis. Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations having 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service, other than institutions of higher education. The Grants.gov eligibility section identifies this nonprofit category and repeats it in the additional eligibility information. No other applicant category is expressly identified in the provided source. Because this opportunity is specifically for Region 5 and describes services to the small business community in the organization's designated region, it is treated as geographically restricted rather than nationwide. However, the provided synopsis does not identify the individual states, territories, or other jurisdictions that constitute Region 5, so those locations should not be inferred from the supplied information. The opportunity was posted on July 31, 2026 and was last updated on August 6, 2026. The original and current closing date for applications is August 30, 2026, and the archive date is September 29, 2026. Grants.gov provides an Apply action directing applicants to the Grants.gov workspace process. No letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, initial application, or other pre-application gating requirement is stated in the supplied synopsis. No recurring annual or other repeating application schedule is stated. The source also does not provide an award notification date or performance period. The Department held an informational session on August 3, 2026, and the supplied Grants.gov material includes access information for a recording of that session. The informational session is not identified as a required application step or gating requirement. The provided synopsis does not specify application narrative questions, required uploads, evaluation criteria, scoring factors, or review priorities, so these details should not be inferred. Applicants experiencing difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically are directed to contact Steronica Mattocks at steronica.mattocks@dot.gov. No telephone number is supplied in the provided material.

Align proposed activities with the stated objective of preparing small businesses to compete for, obtain, and manage DOT funded transportation related contracts and subcontracts, using the identified forms of outreach, technical assistance, training, assessment, counseling, marketing, and information dissemination.