Federal Transit Administration's contract dollars, traced to the source.
Federal Transit Administration · Department of Transportation
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA), a component of the Department of Transportation, funds and oversees the nation's public transit systems — buses, subways, light rail, and ferries — and administers the grants and safety, data, & compliance programs that govern them. Its contract dollars, roughly $0.12B in FY2025 obligations, skew heavily toward IT and program-support services rather than physical infrastructure: the top awards run to systems support and modernization for FTA's grants and reporting platforms (TRAMS and general support systems), National Transit Database (NTD) program & IT support, and compliance services including the drug-&-alcohol audit program. Vendors like Groundswell, Boyd Caton, Incentive Technology, and Cahill Swift dominate the leaderboard, underscoring that FTA procures analytics, data-management, and audit capacity while its capital transit spending flows through formula and grant programs outside this contract feed.
Contract obligations (latest complete FY)
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Contract obligations (in progress)
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USAspending contract feed
What this monitor reads — and what it doesn't
This is the contract-signal tier: the live USAspending award feed for the Federal Transit Administration awarding sub-agency. It shows where FTA's procurement dollars go — obligations over time and the largest awards — not total budget authority, which also includes payroll, grants, and transfers. Figures reflect the contract (procurement) slice from USAspending FY2025 award data, not FTA's total budget authority, which is dominated by transit formula & capital grants. The appropriation-level view lives on the Department of Transportation monitor.