Regional Transportation District

Regional Transportation District, doing business as RTD, is a public not-for-profit transit agency headquartered in Denver, Colorado that operates as a federal grant recipient providing preventive maintenance, capital equipment replacement, transit-oriented development planning, and transit pass services to federal agencies and the traveling public across the eight-county Denver metropolitan region. RTD competes exclusively in full-and-open federal grant and contract procurements with no set-aside designations; the vendor receives no SBA certifications and operates under no minority, women-owned, veteran-owned, or other socioeconomic designations.

RTD's federal footprint is dominated by transit infrastructure and operations funding rather than procurement-style contracting. The Federal Transit Administration accounts for 166 of 338 total awards and represents the overwhelming customer concentration — FTA formula grants for preventive maintenance of fixed guideway rail systems, bus vehicles and facilities, and ADA paratransit operations form the core of RTD's federal revenue stream. Recent representative awards include a $115.715 million FTA formula grant (CFDA 20.507) awarded July 22, 2026 for preventive maintenance of bus and rail vehicles and ADA paratransit operations through December 31, 2027; a $43.485 million FTA State of Good Repair grant (CFDA 20.525) awarded June 29, 2026 for preventive maintenance on fixed guideway and rail systems through December 30, 2027; and a $233.479 million FTA Federal Transit Capital Investment Grant (CFDA 20.500) awarded November 6, 2024 for construction of the East Colfax Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project in Denver and Aurora. Outside FTA, RTD holds contracts with the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 (13 awards, $3 million combined potential value) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (12 awards, $900 thousand combined potential value), primarily for annual EcoPass transit fare media purchases ranging from approximately $10,000 to $39,000 per contract. These Eco Pass contracts represent the largest non-FTA category and serve federal employee commuting in the Denver area across NIST, EPA Region 8, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Attorney's Offices, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other agencies.

RTD's recent activity shows growth trajectory — fourteen awards in 2025 compared to seven in 2022 — driven almost entirely by FTA formula grants. Awards completing in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $73 thousand, representing minimal recompete exposure. RTD operates as a direct prime recipient on all federal awards; no subcontractors or sub-recipients appear in the source except where local jurisdictions serve as sub-recipients on planning grants (City and County of Denver on the Federal Boulevard transit-oriented development grant, City and County of Broomfield on the Broomfield Transit Needs Assessment grant, and Smart Commute on the Northwest Denver FlexRide planning study). The vendor holds no position on IDIQs, GWACs, or multi-agency blanket purchase agreements; the few named parent vehicles in the source (DTOS5911D00525 with 7 task orders and $3.5 million potential value) represent small-dollar transit fare purchasing instruments rather than major contract platforms. RTD's NAICS profile is transit-focused — Mixed Mode Transit Systems (58 awards), Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation (17 awards), and All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (13 awards) — with PSC coding concentrated on transit/ground passenger services and fare media procurement. This is a regional public transportation operator whose federal business is almost entirely operationally driven grant funding from FTA, not a contractor pursuing task orders on federal vehicles or competing for procurement-style services.