Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District Of Oregon

Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District Of Oregon, doing business as Trimet, is a U.S. local government transit authority headquartered in Portland, Oregon, that operates as a federal grant recipient and sells transit passes and subsidies to federal agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements. Trimet is not an SBA-certified firm and does not compete under set-asides; it competes on a full-and-open basis, drawing federal funding predominantly through formula grants from the Federal Transit Administration and selling transit services through sole-source and competitive procurements.

Trimet's federal footprint consists primarily of grant work (95% of recent awards as prime recipient) focused on bus and light-rail fleet maintenance, capital projects, and transit infrastructure improvements across the Portland metropolitan area. Recent grant work includes a $67.59 million Federal Transit Formula Grant (CFDA 20.507) awarded in June 2026 for bus preventive maintenance; a $39 million FY 2024 Section 5339(c) Low or No Emissions Vehicle Deployment grant for hydrogen bus procurement and Powell Operations Facility retrofits; a $103.3 million State of Good Repair grant (CFDA 20.525) for rail and bus preventive maintenance; an $8.2 million Community Project Funding grant for the Columbia Zero-Emissions Bus Facility construction; and an $8.5 million Federal Transit Formula Grant for bus preventive maintenance and capital infrastructure. Trimet also holds a $3.15 million Section 5310 Enhanced Mobility grant (CFDA 20.513) for paratransit services to elderly and disabled populations, with subrecipients Ride Connection and Clackamas County, and receives ongoing debt service grants from the Federal Transit Administration to support bond payments on capital projects including the Division Transit Project and Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail.

On the contract side, Trimet's federal customer base centers on transit pass and fare media sales to federal agencies. The Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region has awarded 18 purchase orders totaling $2.2 million in combined potential value for annual transit passes. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has placed 17 BPA calls worth $308 thousand for transit subsidy programs through August 2025. Recent contract examples include an $18.2 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from BLM (awarded August 20, 2025) for annual universal passes through August 31, 2026, an $8.5 thousand December 2024 purchase order from BLM for the same, and a $2.5 thousand FERC BPA call (September 2024) for transit subsidy services.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Federal Transit Administration, which accounts for 239 of 406 total awards (59% by count). By potential value, the Department of Transportation Immediate Office of the Secretary carries the largest dollar share at $6.7 million across 6 awards, followed by the Transportation Security Administration with $3.9 million across 5 awards. The BLM Oregon-Washington Region, FERC, and the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service round out the top five customer agencies.

Trimet places federal contract work under an IDC vehicle (DTOS5911D00524) carrying 5 task orders worth $6.7 million, and under FERC BPAs (FERC10A0505 and FERC15A0139) totaling 10 task orders worth $290 thousand. The source does not identify Trimet as holding seats on GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, or GSA Schedules.

Activity has remained modest and variable, averaging 12.4 awards per year over the past five years (2022: 21; 2023: 17; 2024: 12; 2025: 17; 2026: 5 year-to-date). Combined potential value across all recent awards stands at $14.5 million against $5.11 billion in obligated dollars, reflecting a large backlog of prior-year grants in execution. Eighteen awards face completion within the next twenty-four months with only $18 thousand in combined potential value, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Trimet acts as a subrecipient on grant work routed through the Oregon Military Department for COVID-19 vaccination and emergency response activities; these subawards are incidental to its primary grant footprint and do not represent a meaningful line of business. As a government entity operating a regional transit system, Trimet does not maintain a commercial subcontracting footprint and does not engage prime contractors outside the government sphere.