Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center (Region 3)

The U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization is offering the Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center (Region 3) funding opportunity under Notice of Funding Opportunity OST-OSDBU-2026-SBTTAC-REGION3-FY2026-1. The opportunity is a federal discretionary grant opportunity in the Transportation funding activity category and is associated with Assistance Listing 20.910, Assistance to Small and Disadvantaged Businesses. The Department intends to make one cooperative agreement award to establish and operate the Region 3 Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center. The program was formerly known as the Small Business Transportation Resource Centers. The purpose of the cooperative agreement is to establish and operate the Region 3 Small Business Transportation Technical Assistance Center. The source identifies the center as a transportation technical assistance initiative connected with assistance to small and disadvantaged businesses. One award is expected. The award ceiling is $278,272 and the award floor is also $278,272, indicating that the stated award amount for the opportunity is $278,272. Estimated total program funding is not provided in the source. The cooperative agreement provides for a 12 month base year with two option years. Exercise of the option years is based on performance. The source does not provide additional details about allowable expenditures, prohibited expenditures, indirect cost limitations, subaward limitations, or other spending restrictions. Cost sharing or matching is explicitly required for this opportunity. However, the Grants.gov information provided does not state the required percentage, ratio, dollar amount, or other formula for the match. Applicants should therefore rely on the complete NOFO and application package for the specific cost sharing requirement rather than assuming a match amount from the synopsis. The opportunity is limited to Region 3, but the provided source does not enumerate the states, territories, counties, cities, or other geographic jurisdictions that constitute Region 3. Consequently, the specific eligible states and sub-state geographies cannot be established from the supplied information alone. Eligible applicants listed in the notice are state governments, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits having 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service other than institutions of higher education, and nonprofits that do not have 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service other than institutions of higher education. No additional eligibility information is supplied in the Grants.gov synopsis. The source does not list individuals, local governments, tribal organizations, school districts, public housing authorities, for-profit organizations, or small businesses themselves as eligible applicant categories. The opportunity was posted on July 31, 2026 and was last updated on August 4, 2026. Both the original and current closing date are August 30, 2026. No separate letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, initial application, or other pre-application gating deadline is identified in the supplied source. Applicants can use the Grants.gov Apply function to create a workspace for the opportunity and submit through the federal Grants.gov process. The supplied synopsis does not identify required narratives, forms, attachments, application questions, evaluation criteria, scoring criteria, award notification dates, or a separate award start date. USDOT provided a recorded NOFO information session held on August 3, 2026 at 1 PM Eastern Time, with a recording link and passcode included in the Grants.gov notice. This webinar is informational and is not identified as a required application step or gating event. The supplied source does not state that the opportunity recurs annually, biennially, quarterly, or on another regular schedule, so no recurrence is established. For applicants having difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, the named grantor contact is Lynn Bailey at lynn.bailey@dot.gov. No telephone number is provided in the supplied source.

The cooperative agreement includes two option years based on performance; applicants should account for the performance-based continuation structure when reviewing the full NOFO.