Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center (Region 1)

The U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization is making funding available through the Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center Region 1 opportunity. The funding opportunity number is OST-OSDBU-2026-SBTTAC-REGION1-FY2026-1, and the Assistance Listing is 20.910, Assistance to Small and Disadvantaged Businesses. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary federal funding in the Transportation funding activity category. Funding will be provided through a cooperative agreement, with one award expected. The purpose of the opportunity is to establish and operate the Region 1 Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center. The center was formerly known as the Small Business Transportation Resource Center. The source identifies the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization as the responsible office and places the opportunity within the Department of Transportation. The provided notice does not specify detailed allowable and prohibited expenditures, individual program activities, subaward restrictions, indirect cost limits, or other spending rules. Applicants should therefore rely on the full announcement and application package for any requirements not included in the provided synopsis. The award ceiling is 452420 dollars and the award floor is also 452420 dollars. The Department of Transportation expects to make one award. The estimated total program funding field is not populated in the provided Grants.gov information, so a total program funding amount cannot be verified from the source. Cost sharing or matching is explicitly required. However, the source does not provide the required percentage, ratio, or dollar amount of the match. The cooperative agreement is structured as a 12 month base year with two option years, with the option years based on performance. Eligible applicants include Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, State governments, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS other than institutions of higher education, and Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS other than institutions of higher education. No additional eligibility information is supplied in the Grants.gov synopsis. The provided material also does not state a specific list of eligible states, territories, counties, cities, ZIP codes, or other geographic service areas, so a more specific geographic eligibility determination should not be inferred solely from the Region 1 title. The opportunity was posted on July 31, 2026 and was last updated on August 4, 2026. Both the original closing date and the current closing date are August 30, 2026. Grants.gov provides an Apply function that directs applicants to creation of a Grants.gov workspace for this opportunity. The provided synopsis does not identify a required letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating submission. It also does not provide a list of required application narratives, forms, attachments, evaluation criteria, scoring factors, or award notification date. A recorded NOFO information session was held on August 3, 2026 at 1 PM Eastern Time, and a recording link and passcode are provided in the source. The grantor contact identified for difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically is Lynn Bailey, with the email address lynn.bailey@dot.gov. No telephone number is provided in the supplied information. The application deadline is August 30, 2026. The source does not state that this opportunity is annual, biennial, quarterly, continuously open, or otherwise recurring, so recurrence should not be assumed. The performance structure consists of a 12 month base year and two performance-based option years. Applicants should use the full announcement and Grants.gov application package to verify the detailed submission requirements, required match amount, evaluation criteria, and any additional program conditions not contained in the supplied synopsis.

The cooperative agreement includes a 12 month base year with two option years based on performance; applicants should account for the performance-dependent nature of the option years.