Comprehensive Oversight Review and Technical Assistance Program (CORTAP)

The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration established CORTAP as a Master IDIQ on December 17, 2018, with a shared ceiling of $93.2 million and a last date to order of December 16, 2023. Ordering closed over two years ago, and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders. Nine prime contractors hold awards under CORTAP, with all 88 task orders funded by the Federal Transit Administration itself. The combined task-order potential value of $67.6 million has been fully obligated, representing 73 percent of the vehicle's shared ceiling.

Milligan & Company LLC leads by task-order count with 15 orders ($12.3 million combined potential value) and by potential value holds roughly 18 percent of the portfolio. TFC Consulting Inc., The DMP Group LLC, and Interactive Elements Incorporated each hold between $9.4 million and $9.7 million in combined potential value. These five firms plus RLS & Associates, Inc., Calyptus Consulting Group, Inc., Tuba Group, Inc., and a smaller vendor (CDI/DCI Joint Venture and QI-Tech LLC among others) share the work with relatively broad distribution; the top five primes by potential value capture 72 percent of combined potential value, and the top five by order count capture 67 percent.

Work focuses on Federal Transit Administration grant oversight and technical assistance across multiple focus areas: comprehensive oversight reviews of grant recipient management practices, financial management and capacity assessments, technical capacity reviews, maintenance evaluations, procurement compliance, and civil rights compliance. Task orders also fund workshops (virtual and regional), contractor manual updates, tribal transit assessments, quality-assurance special assignments, and OTRAK system support. Recent task orders from September 2024 center on fiscal year 2025 review packages and workshops, with typical individual task-order ceilings ranging from approximately $230,000 to $2.0 million. Work is priced predominantly on a labor-hours basis, with some earlier task orders at firm fixed price.

About 85 percent of task orders carry no set-aside, with the remainder split among small-business 8(a) designations (13 percent total small business, one competitive 8(a) order, and one economically disadvantaged woman-owned small-business sole-source award). The vehicle shows sustained ordering momentum through its closure: 16 orders were awarded in 2024, the highest annual rate in the last five years, indicating strong demand for CORTAP services up to the December 2023 ordering deadline. Since this vehicle's ordering period has expired, pursuit is limited to positions on existing prime contracts or subcontracting relationships with current awardees.

Department of Transportation's (DOT) Comprehensive Oversight Review and Technical Assistance Program (CORTAP) is Department of Transportation Grants oversight program that requires contractor support for performance of comprehensive oversight reviews that focus on Grant Recipient management practices as well as compliance with program and administrative requirements. CORTAP focus areas include financial management and capacity, technical capacity, maintenance, procurement, civil rights and others.