Surface Transportation Board

The Surface Transportation Board, an independent civilian agency that regulates interstate freight railroads and intercity buses, awarded 195 federal contracts totaling $86.8 million in combined potential value since 2011, with $77.7 million obligated to date. Contract activity has averaged 16.8 awards per year over the last five years—21 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, 23 in 2024, 20 in 2025, and 5 year-to-date in 2026—reflecting a moderate transaction pace with recent volatility in annual volume.

The competitive landscape among recent primes is highly fragmented. By award count over the last five years, CP Marine LLC leads with five awards totaling $5.8 million, followed by CDW Government LLC and Networking For Future Inc. with four awards each; these three primes represent only 22 percent of recent awards. By combined potential value, Technology Solutions Provider LLC holds the lead at $7 million across two awards, with CP Marine LLC second at $5.8 million. The agency works with 92 distinct prime contractors cumulatively, and the top five primes by value account for only 20 percent of recent combined potential value, indicating a highly dispersed vendor base with no dominant prime. Individual transaction sizes are modest—the median award sits in the low-single-digit millions—and 89 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small-business set-asides (6 percent of awards) are the largest reserved category, followed by isolated awards under 8(a) sole-source, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, HUBZone, and HUBZone sole-source designations.

The Board's contracting profile suggests a focus on IT services, software, and professional consulting rather than hardware or major systems. Vendors transact predominantly on a time-and-materials or cost-reimbursable basis at modest scale. The agency's limited contract velocity and highly fragmented competitive concentration indicate limited repeat-buyer relationships and no sustained program vehicles. The most recently recorded award closed on 29 September 2026. No recent contract opportunities are present in the source data, and no grant activity is recorded against the agency.