Opportunity Information: Apply for DOT SMART FY24 02
The FY24 SMART Grants Stage 2 Notice of Funding Opportunity is a U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) competitive grant program run through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R). It supports the second phase of the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program, which is focused on moving promising smart city and smart community transportation ideas from early planning and prototyping into real-world implementation. The overall intent is to help communities deploy advanced technologies and systems that improve transportation efficiency and safety, building directly on work already completed with federal support in Stage One.
This Stage Two funding is not open to brand-new applicants. Eligibility is limited to organizations that previously received an FY22 SMART Stage One Planning and Prototyping Grant, or to eligible entities that have been formally designated by those Stage One recipients to apply on their behalf. In other words, this round is designed specifically to help prior Stage One awardees take what they developed earlier (plans, prototypes, concept demonstrations, and related groundwork) and actually implement and scale those efforts in operational settings. USDOT makes clear that the goal is continuity: Stage Two dollars are meant to fund implementation of what was proven or designed in Stage One, rather than starting an unrelated new project.
A central gatekeeping requirement in this NOFO is the Draft Implementation Report produced during Stage One. USDOT will assess the Draft Implementation Report for each Stage One recipient as part of its consideration of Stage Two applications. There is also a strict timing-related eligibility rule: if a Stage One awardee is not required to submit a Draft Implementation Report during the July to September 2024 window because their Stage One period of performance began after October 1, 2023, then they are not eligible to apply under this particular FY24 Stage Two NOFO. USDOT signals that this is partly a scheduling issue and notes that additional Stage Two opportunities are expected in 2025 and 2026, when other Stage One recipients who are not eligible this year may have a chance to apply.
The eligible applicant types reflect the public-sector and transportation-operations focus of the program. Eligible entities include states; political subdivisions of a state (such as cities, counties, or similar local governments); federally recognized Tribal governments; public transit agencies or authorities; public toll authorities; and metropolitan planning organizations. The program also allows a group application, where two or more eligible entities team up and submit through a single lead applicant. This structure supports multi-jurisdictional projects, regional deployments, and collaborations where the technology or transportation system crosses agency boundaries.
From a funding and administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary grant opportunity (Assistance Listing/CFDA 20.941) in the transportation category. The opportunity number is DOT SMART FY24 02. USDOT anticipates making about five awards under this notice, and the award ceiling is listed as $15,000,000 per award. The original application deadline is August 14, 2024. Taken together, those details indicate a relatively small number of larger, implementation-oriented grants, consistent with the Stage Two emphasis on deploying solutions that have already been planned and prototyped.
In practical terms, applicants should be prepared to show a clear and credible bridge from Stage One outputs to Stage Two deployment. That typically means demonstrating that the proposed implementation is directly grounded in the Stage One plan and prototype work, that the project is ready to move beyond experimentation, and that the technology or system will produce measurable improvements in transportation safety and efficiency in a smart city or community context. The NOFO also makes it plain that USDOT is looking for evidence of readiness and follow-through, using the Draft Implementation Report as a key artifact to judge whether the Stage One work has matured to the point where federal implementation funding is justified.Apply for DOT SMART FY24 02
- The 69A345 Office of the Under Secretary for Policy in the transportation sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY24 SMART Grants Stage 2 Notice of Funding Opportunity" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 20.941.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-07-15.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-08-14. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $15,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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