Signed NOFO-4-19-2017.pdf

DEPARTMENT OFTRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary of Transportation

Notice of Funding Availability for the Small Business Transportation Resource

Center (SBTRC) Program

AGENCY: Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), Office of the

Secretary of Transportation (OST), Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability for the Northeast Region SBTRC.

SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary (OST), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) announces the opportunity for business centered community-based organizations, transportation-related trade associations, colleges and universities, community colleges, or chambers of commerce, registered with the

Internal Revenue Service as 501 C(6) or 501 C(3) tax-exempt organizations, to compete for participation in OSDBU's Small Business Transportation Resource Center (SBTRC) program in the Northeast Region (Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New

Hampshire, and Maine).

DATES: Complete Proposals must be received on or before May 19, 2017, 6:00 p.m. Eastern

Standard Time (EST). Proposals received after the deadline will be considered non-responsive and will not be reviewed.

ADDRESSES: Applications must be electronically submitted through Grants.gov. Only applicants who comply with all submission requirements described in this notice and electronically submit valid applications through Grants.gov will be eligible for award

FORFURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information concerning this notice, contact Ms. Steronica Mattocks, Telephone: (202) 366-0658 Email: sbtrcdot.gov.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OSDBU will enter into Cooperative Agreements with these organizations to provide outreach to the small business community in their designated region and provide financial and tecimical assistance, business training programs, business assessment, management training, counseling, marketing and outreach, and the dissemination of information, to encourage and assist small businesses to become befter prepared to compete for, obtain, and manage DOT funded transportation-related contracts and subcontracts at the federal, state and local levels. Throughout this notice, the term "small business" will refer to: 8(a), small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), disadvantaged business enterprises (DBE), women owned small businesses (WOSB), HubZone, service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVOB), and veteran owned small businesses (VOSB). Throughout this notice, "transportation-related" is defined as the maintenance, rehabilitation, restructuring, improvement, or revitalization ofany of the nation's modes oftransportation.

Funding Opportunity Number: USDOT-OST-OSDBU/SBTRCNE-20 17-1

Catalog ofFederal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 20.910 Assistance to Small and

Disadvantaged Businesses

Type ofAward: Cooperative Agreement Grant

Award Ceiling: $224,000

AwardFloor: $210,000

Program Authority: DOT is authorized under 49 U.S.C. 332 (b) (4), (5) & (7) to design and carry out programs to assist small disadvantaged businesses in getting transportation-related contracts and subcontracts; develop support mechanisms, including management and technical services, that will enable small disadvantaged businesses to take advantage of those business opportunities; and to make arrangements to carry out the above purposes.

Issued On: April 19, 2017.

Willis Morris

Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

United States ofDepartment ofTransportation