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Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

$1,248,700,000

Department of Transportation·Federal Railroad Administration

to NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION

transportationactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2022 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2022-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-11·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_69A36523504100AMTDC_069
Award description

THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE PROGRAM FUNDED THROUGH THIS AGREEMENT IS FOR AMTRAKTO MAINTAIN CONTINUED SAFE NATIONAL PASSENGER RAIL OPERATIONS, TO PURSUE ACTIVITIESTHAT SUPPORT EFFICIENT SERVICE TO INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL RIDERSHIP, AND TO ADDRESS ANDCOMPLY WITH ALL SPECIFIED FEDERAL OPERATING REQUIREMENTS AND MANDATES ON REGIONSOUTSIDE THE NATIONAL NETWORK (NN), KNOWN AS THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR (NEC). THISINCLUDES NEC INTERCITY OPERATIONS, AND IN MANY CASES, THIS WILL INCLUDE WORK THATPROVIDES A SHARED BENEFIT ACROSS THE NEC AND NATIONAL NETWORK.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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In plain English

Funds Amtrak's safe national passenger rail operations and Northeast Corridor intercity service through 2029.

Sub-sectors
passenger-railnortheast-corridoramtrak-operations
Why this matters

The latest $1.25B obligation (May 2026) sustains the Northeast Corridor, the nation's busiest passenger rail line, which began operations under this agreement in October 2022.

Supply-chain signal

Supports ongoing procurement of rail maintenance, rolling stock parts, and operational services across the Northeast Corridor network.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002961.

Period of performance
Start
2022-10-01
End
2029-01-31
Status
activein 946 days
Sources

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