Global Charter Services Inc.

Global Charter Services Inc. Busbank Division, doing business as The Busbank, operates as a self-certified small disadvantaged business providing charter bus, motor coach, and ground transportation services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, The Busbank delivers concrete transportation services: charter bus operations for training events, personnel movement, and agency programs; roundtrip motor coach transportation for OSHA Training Institute courses; shuttle services for military and civilian agencies; and ground transportation for locally employed staff and tour participants. Recent awards reflect this scope: a $194,680 BPA call issued by the Coast Guard Chicago Field Office (March 2025–February 2026) for Coast Guard shuttle services in the Chicago area; a $152,010 delivery order from Military Sealift Command (October 2022) for civilian mariner bus transportation to Fleet, Virginia; a $15,790.02 delivery order from Air Force Test Center (June 2026) for charter buses supporting the 75th Anniversary Open House; and a $76,386 single-award BPA with the Department of Labor's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (June 2024–June 2027) for roundtrip motor coach transportation supporting OSHA Training Institute courses.

Customer concentration is highly fragmented by award count but extremely concentrated by dollar value. The top five customers by award count — the Department of State Foreign Service Institute (9 awards), Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 (7 awards), Department of Labor OSHA (6 awards), Department of Commerce USPTO (5 awards), and Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (4 awards) — account for only 23 percent of awards. However, the top customer by potential value, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 6, commands $385.8 million across two awards, representing 99 percent of combined potential value across all 135 awards. This extreme concentration reflects what appears to be a large FEMA disaster-response or logistics contract. The Department of Justice FBI (headquarters and Chicago field office) and the Department of Labor follow distantly at $1.9 million and $993 thousand, respectively.

The Busbank holds a seat on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 53 task orders valued at $3.6 million combined potential value, and operates under Indefinite Delivery Contract HSFELA07D0076 with one task order valued at $220.8 million. The vendor also holds three single-award BPAs: the $1,042,205 ceiling agreement with OSHA and the Department of Defense's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (March 2025–February 2030), the $136,977.60 BPA with the Department of Labor for OSHA Training Institute transportation (May 2022–May 2027), and the $600,000 multiple-award BPA with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for domestic and overseas passenger transportation (March 2022–February 2027).

Activity shows a slight upward trajectory from 2022 through 2024 (5, 5, and 9 awards respectively) before declining to 6 awards in 2025 and 2 awards year-to-date in 2026. Combined potential value across all 135 awards stands at $391.1 million, but only $6 million has been obligated (2 percent), indicating that the portfolio is heavily weighted toward ceiling contracts and IDVs with modest near-term cash flow. The vendor has served 52 distinct customer agencies across primarily NAICS 485999 (All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation) and PSC codes spanning passenger motor charter and ground-effect vehicle rental. The Busbank operates 100 percent as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data.

The BusBank is a comprehensive group and event transportation management company headquartered in Chicago. We are the industry pioneer and leader in providing a single-source for chartering a bus anywhere in North America. Our experience is broad and diverse and we arrange charters for thousands of customers each year. The scope of our service ranges from simple one-day outings to large events such as: trade-shows, conventions, sporting events and large scale entertainment events. Our network of independent bus operators is the largest of its kind in North America. BusBank works with charter bus operators everyday so we have an in-depth knowledge of how the industry works. We have established partnerships and relationships with our operator network that allows us to deliver a consistently superior customer experience.