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Colorado Transportation Investment Office (CTIO)
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- Type
- State SPV — the High Performance Transportation Enterprise, which the state retains for legislative and legal documents, trading as the Colorado Transportation Investment Office; an independent government-owned business within the Colorado Department of Transportation
- Market · Region
- United States · Colorado
- Open tenders
- 0
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control
Delivers public-private partnership projects and manages express lanes and passenger rail funding.
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Delivers public-private partnership projects and manages the state's express lanes. Senate Bill 24-184 authorised CTIO alongside RTD, CDOT and the Front Range Passenger Rail District to develop an implementation plan for passenger rail from Denver Union Station to Fort Collins, and created a congestion impact daily rental car fee CTIO may use for transportation infrastructure. CTIO is the state party to the Joint Service term sheet with BNSF Railway dated 30 April 2026 and, in the Front Range Passenger Rail District's Delivery Plan, the largest single funder of Starter Service capital.
- Type
- State SPV — the High Performance Transportation Enterprise, which the state retains for legislative and legal documents, trading as the Colorado Transportation Investment Office; an independent government-owned business within the Colorado Department of Transportation
- Where
- Colorado · Denver
- Programmes
- IIJA / Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control
Who holds what here
- leases from BNSF — Non-binding term sheet of 30 April 2026 under which BNSF would allow CTIO to use BNSF track on the Service Area for three daily round-trip intercity passenger rail trains between Denver Union Station and Fort Collins (pending · since 2026-04-30)
- Contract detail and values (1)In the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (3)
- ● Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) · Term Sheet between the High Performance Transportation Enterprise d.b.a. Colorado Transportation Investment Office and BNSF Railway Company for the Joint Service, dated 30 April 2026 (redacted, 21 pages) (published 2026-04-30 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Front Range Passenger Rail District (FRPRD) · Delivery Plan — Colorado Connector, 31 August 2026 final, 81 pages: phasing, partners, Starter Service and Full Service capital and operating costs and funding sources (published 2026-08-31 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Joint Service — Joint Service Executive Oversight Committee, SB24-184 partners, BNSF term sheet webinar of 9 April 2026, JSEOC agendas and meeting schedule (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
Tenders
| Tender | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|
| CTIO BNSF Denver Union Station Fort Collins | Planned | no value published; the term sheet is non-binding and publishes no figure |
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- Procurement structure
- Published contacts (2)
- Award history (1)
- Entry path
Full detail withheld: 4 fields. In the United States edition · See a fully open example
6 sources · all primary
- ● Colorado Transportation Investment Office (CTIO) · CTIO — the High Performance Transportation Enterprise is now the Colorado Transportation Investment Office; a government-owned business within CDOT; board, express lanes, reports and procurement (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Colorado Transportation Investment Office (CTIO) · CTIO Procurement — current and archived announcements and solicitations from HPTE (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) · Term Sheet between the High Performance Transportation Enterprise d.b.a. Colorado Transportation Investment Office and BNSF Railway Company for the Joint Service, dated 30 April 2026 (redacted, 21 pages) (published 2026-04-30 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) · Passenger Rail at CDOT — Passenger Rail Branch, Joint Service under SB24-184, JSEOC, BNSF term sheet, Mountain Rail programme and the Transportation Commission's October 2023 approval of initial funding for a Mountain Rail service plan (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Joint Service — Joint Service Executive Oversight Committee, SB24-184 partners, BNSF term sheet webinar of 9 April 2026, JSEOC agendas and meeting schedule (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Front Range Passenger Rail District (FRPRD) · Delivery Plan — Colorado Connector, 31 August 2026 final, 81 pages: phasing, partners, Starter Service and Full Service capital and operating costs and funding sources (published 2026-08-31 · checked 2026-09-14)
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