485999: All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

Federal buyers under this code are concentrated in a few offices. The Department of Transportation's Office of the Secretary (DEPT OF TRANS/OST) and the 693JK4 OST office account for the largest dollar totals, $537.66M over 108 awards and $387.49M over 35 awards. The National Institutes of Health appears in several offices, with the most awards (209 for the OLAO office alone), though those awards carry much less money. Two network contract offices, 261 and 245, also appear among the top buyers. The notice does not say how these offices choose vendors. Most awards are recorded with no set-aside (7,142) or with none recorded (4,217). Small-business set-asides appear far less often, with SBA at 859 and the other small-business codes in the low hundreds or below.

The total of $2.48B across 12,882 awards from FY2001 to FY2027 comes mostly from a relatively small number of large awards. The median award is only $12.0K, so a typical award in this code is small. Work in this code has been spread across 727 distinct vendors. The notice does not give the number of bids per award, so it does not show how much competition any single solicitation draws. A firm weighing this code should look at the size of the awards it can realistically win and at which buyers fit its capabilities, since the median and the top-buyer totals point to very different markets.

The main near-term signal is the 94 contracts worth $133.86M that end within the next 12 months. Those expirations may lead to new solicitations, but the notice does not say whether they will be recompeted, bundled, or extended. Only 2 active notices are listed now, so current openings are limited. Watch the top buyers, especially DOT/OST and the NIH offices, for new notices as those contracts near their end dates. Also watch how set-aside labels change over the year, since the notice does not say whether the current mix will hold.