Wyoming Department Of Transportation

Wyoming Department Of Transportation, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient across transportation infrastructure, highway safety, and transit programs, with no federal contract prime or subcontract footprint. WYDOT operates predominantly under formula grant mechanisms from the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, competing in full-and-open, non-set-aside categories.

WYDOT's grant portfolio centers on concrete transportation infrastructure delivery: highway pavement preservation, bridge rehabilitation and replacement, multimodal pathway construction, and safety improvements. Recent representative work includes a $10 million National Infrastructure Investments program (RAISE) grant from the Department of Transportation's Office of the Secretary for US 212/Beartooth Highway reconstruction and engineering (CFDA 20.933, awarded May 2026, completion September 2030); a $48.35 million Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements grant from the Federal Railroad Administration for the College Drive at-grade rail crossing elimination in Cheyenne (CFDA 20.338, awarded October 2025, completion November 2037); and a $14.7 million Formula Grants for Rural Areas and Tribal Transit Program award from the Federal Transit Administration for operating assistance and preventive maintenance for rural transit providers statewide (CFDA 20.509, awarded February 2026, completion March 2028). WYDOT also delivers highway safety countermeasure programs, planning and research services, local technical assistance coordination, emergency relief response, and wildlife-vehicle collision mitigation initiatives across its five highway districts.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Federal Highway Administration accounts for approximately 97 percent of recent awards by count (2,605 awards, though combined potential value shown is artificially suppressed at $27 thousand, reflecting data artifact); the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration holds 139 awards; the Federal Transit Administration holds 98 awards; and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration holds 41 awards. The remaining 89 awards span the Army Corps of Engineers, the Air Force, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, and Forest Service regional offices. This concentration reflects WYDOT's statutory role as Wyoming's primary administrator of federal-aid highway funding and state highway safety office functions.

WYDOT does not operate under named IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs in the traditional federal contractor sense; rather, it sits on formula grant programs where the federal agencies serve as grantors. The agency appears on a single Blanket Purchase Agreement (W912BV13A0006) with two task orders valued at $9 thousand, relating to Army Corps of Engineers work.

Award activity has declined sharply year over year—from 638 awards in 2022 to 272 in 2025 and 85 in the first half of 2026. This trajectory reflects the backend phase of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funding cycles; large formula grants issued in 2022–2023 are now in execution rather than newly awarded. Within the next twenty-four months, 173 awards (combined potential value $40 thousand) reach ultimate completion dates, creating a sustained recompete environment across highway preservation, safety, planning, and transit sub-awards.

WYDOT functions as a pass-through administrator for federal transportation dollars to counties, municipalities, tribal governments, and state agencies. The agency distributes sub-awards to local jurisdictions for targeted infrastructure improvements—a role evident across dust suppression initiatives, trail maintenance, pedestrian pathway construction, and safety programs in counties and small towns throughout Wyoming. Combined obligated dollars across the award portfolio ($5.46 billion) dwarf combined potential value, indicating historical awards with multi-year execution cycles now in drawdown. WYDOT competes for and receives grants as a state government entity, not as a commercial vendor, and holds no SBA designations or set-aside posture.