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Omaha Streetcar Authority

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Type
Transit authority — Authority created by the City of Omaha to build and later run the Omaha Streetcar, a free-fare starter line of about three miles through downtown and midtown; paid mainly from tax increment financing and City bonds. Its own site returns 403 to curl; its board packets and bid tabulations were read from Internet Archive copies.
Market · Region
United States · Nebraska
Open tenders
0
Technology areas
Track & civil, Rolling-stock hardware, Electrification

City authority building Omaha's three-mile starter streetcar, with vehicles, main construction and depot contracts already let.

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Builds the Omaha Streetcar for the City: it has let the vehicle order, the main construction contract and the maintenance facility, and approves change orders at monthly board meetings. Operation is to be contracted out.

Type
Transit authority — Authority created by the City of Omaha to build and later run the Omaha Streetcar, a free-fare starter line of about three miles through downtown and midtown; paid mainly from tax increment financing and City bonds. Its own site returns 403 to curl; its board packets and bid tabulations were read from Internet Archive copies.
Where
Nebraska · Omaha
Technology areas
Track & civil, Rolling-stock hardware, Electrification

Who holds what here

  • awarded CAF — Order for six Urbos streetcars awarded 13 May 2024 plus escalation, with spares (board resolution); CAF cites (active)
  • awarded Kiewit — Construction-manager-at-risk contract for the mainline, guaranteed maximum price (Res. 2025-015, 16 June 2025); change order approved 15 December 2025 (active)
Sources for these relationships (5)

Tenders

TenderStatusValue bandNext key date
Streetcar special trackworkBids closed$5–25m
Omaha Streetcar operations and maintenance contractBids closedNot published
Kiewit mainline construction, Omaha StreetcarIn execution$100–500m
CAF Urbos streetcars, six vehiclesIn execution$25–100mAwarded May 2024
Streetcar maintenance facility constructionIn execution$25–100m
Omaha Streetcar utility relocation packages · 2 partsIn executionVaries by part
Utilities East Package 4BIn execution$25–100mAwarded June 2025
Utilities West Package 4AIn execution$5–25mAwarded November 2024
I-480 Bridges Package 5In execution$5–25mAwarded December 2024

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  • Procurement structure
  • Published contacts (2)
  • Award history (8)
  • Entry path
  • Portals (2)

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16 sources · 9 primary
  • ● Omaha Streetcar Authority, Bid Results & Tabulations · Authority's own bid-results page and Package 3B bid tabulation (opened 18 Dec 2024). 403 to curl; read from Internet Archive copy of 3 March 2026 (published 2025-06-16 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Omaha Streetcar Authority board packet and minutes, 13 May 2024 · Res. 2024-002 award of six vehicles and spares to CAF USA, approved 7-0. 403 to curl; read from Internet Archive copy (published 2024-05-13 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Omaha Streetcar Authority board packet, 16 June 2025 · Agenda packet with Res. 2025-015 (Kiewit amendment at a Guaranteed Maximum Price). 403 to curl; read from Internet Archive copy (published 2025-06-16 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Omaha Streetcar Authority board packet, 15 December 2025 · Agenda packet with Res. 2025-034 (Kiewit Change Order No. 1) and the change order sheet. 403 to curl; read from Internet Archive copy (published 2025-12-11 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ○ WOWT report on the maintenance facility contract (13 January 2025) · TV report: the Omaha Streetcar Authority board approved $26,680,000 to Sampson Construction Co. Inc. as lowest and best of three bids opened 18 December 2024 (Hausmann $27.9m, Hawkins $29m). Secondary: omahastreetcar.org returns 403 (published 2025-01-13 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ○ CAF release on the Omaha streetcar order (9 July 2024) · CAF's release, carried on Mass Transit: about EUR 50m (US$54m) for six Urbos three-module trams plus depot parts and special tools, option for up to 29 more, customer the Omaha Streetcar Authority. Secondary: the supplier's own release, not the Authority's (published 2024-07-09 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ○ Flatwater Free Press report of the Omaha Streetcar Authority meeting of 15 December 2025 · Report: unanimous approval of a $5.38m change order to the Kiewit Construction contract for a track and power test section; completion expected September 2028; streetcars expected 2027; total Kiewit contract value not stated. Secondary; article posted 5 January 2026 (published 2026-01-05 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ○ Flatwater Free Press report of the Omaha Streetcar Authority meeting of 18 August 2025 · Report: change orders of $114,227 to Sampson Construction and $69,473.11 to Sadler Electric; construction to begin in January; proposals for an operations contractor due 10 September. Secondary (published 2025-08-18 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Omaha Streetcar bid packages call for contractors (Kiewit) · Public-input page under the Omaha Streetcar Authority: Kiewit Corporation invites bids on 26 bid packages for the starter line, bids due 25 April 2025; about 5 miles of build with 3.2 miles of track, 16 stations, 41 signalised intersections and 3 traction power substations (published 2025-04-25 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ○ WOWT report on the streetcar cost update (8 July 2025) · TV report: the Mayor put the bond estimate at $421m, up from $389m at 60 percent design in June 2024 and below the $440m bond authority; design at 100 percent, most key contracts let, completion goal 2028. Secondary (published 2025-07-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ○ Wikipedia, Omaha Streetcar · Encyclopedia summary of the City's bond ordinances: $440m approved 13 December 2022 ($360m TIF revenue bonds, $80m lease-revenue bonds), later series, six CAF Urbos vehicles, opening moved to 2028. Secondary: the ordinances themselves were not read because cityofomaha.org returns 403 (published 2026-08-01 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ○ WOWT report on a North 24th Street extension study (5 August 2026) · TV report: federal funds secured to study extending the Omaha Streetcar towards North 24th Street; the amount and programme are not stated in the article. Secondary (published 2026-08-05 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Omaha Streetcar I-480 Bridges Package 5 bid tabulation · Authority bid tabulation (Internet Archive copy): estimate $23,298,936.17; Hawkins Construction Company base bid $20,602,817.01; General Excavating, LLC $21,866,237.62 (published 2024-11-06 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Omaha Streetcar Utilities West Package 4A bid tabulation · Authority bid tabulation (Internet Archive copy): estimate $16,496,336.00; Hawkins Construction Company base bid $10,526,416.80; L.G. Roloff Construction Co, Inc. $11,862,938.45 (published 2024-10-30 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Omaha Streetcar Utilities East Package 4B bid tabulation · Authority bid tabulation (Internet Archive copy): single bid from Hawkins Construction Company; $44,626,265.40 for City schedules, $71,861,159.40 for all schedules including MUD and OPPD work (published 2025-06-04 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Omaha Streetcar Authority board packet, 17 November 2025 · Board packet (Internet Archive copy): Director's report on the Operations and Maintenance Contractor selection - five proposals, interviews with Herzog, Keolis and RATP Dev on 5 November 2025; the 17 November agenda; payment of MUD invoices (published 2025-11-17 · checked 2026-10-08)

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