Saferide Hawaii

Saferide Hawaii, a tax-exempt nonprofit and DOT-certified disadvantaged business enterprise based in Honolulu, Hawaii, operates exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient, delivering impaired-driving prevention and community traffic-safety education services under awards from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) passed through the State of Hawaii Department of Transportation.

Saferide Hawaii's entire federal footprint consists of three sub-awards, all dated October 1, 2024, totaling $111 thousand in combined obligated dollars. All work flows through a single customer agency: NHTSA. The vendor holds no prime contracts, IDVs, BPAs, or prime grant awards; its relationship to the federal government runs entirely through state intermediation. The three sub-awards carry identical scope: community event participation and SafeRide service provision at venues where alcohol is served, sobriety checkpoint support alongside law enforcement, community rally coordination during high-risk holiday periods, personnel and volunteer coordination, data collection and driver quality assurance, travel to assess SafeRide service needs across Hawaii counties, attendance at impaired-driving conferences and trainings, educational materials production and distribution, social media support, and alignment with Hawaii's Strategic Highway Safety Plan and Impaired Driving Plan. The awards fund direct service delivery, community outreach, administrative overhead, supplies, and software and hardware purchases necessary to operate the SafeRide program statewide.

As a newly visible federal award recipient with three months of activity in the source data window, Saferide Hawaii shows a specialized, local-delivery posture anchored to traffic-safety grant work at the state-pass-through level. The nonprofit's DOT DBE certification and tax-exempt status position it as a community-serving organization rather than a federal contractor; federal revenue concentration is narrow and sub-recipient exposure limits scalability to additional federal customers absent direct prime grant eligibility or contract vehicle participation.