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Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation (Metra)
Live now: 1 tender, largest Metra Richton Park station renovation design services ($5–25m); holds relationships with AECOM, Wabtec, Granite.
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- Type
- Transit authority — two boards, one railroad: the Commuter Rail Division of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority and the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation, with the same eleven appointed directors
- Market · Region
- United States · Illinois
- Open tenders
- 1
- Technology areas
- Rolling-stock hardware, Signalling & train control, Predictive maintenance, Track & civil, Digital operations, Electrification
Runs eleven commuter lines and 243 stations across six-county region with 446 bridges.
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Runs eleven commuter lines and 243 stations across the six-county region, owns 446 bridges of which more than half are over a century old, and approved a $1.2bn 2026 operating budget with a $515.3m capital programme.
- Type
- Transit authority — two boards, one railroad: the Commuter Rail Division of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority and the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation, with the same eleven appointed directors
- Where
- Illinois · Chicago
- Programmes
- IIJA / Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- Technology areas
- Rolling-stock hardware, Signalling & train control, Predictive maintenance, Track & civil, Digital operations, Electrification
Structure
- controlled by NITA — Metra's Commuter Rail Division is a division of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority; the NIRCRC board shares its eleven directors (active · since 2026-09-01)
- funded by NITA — Regional sales tax receipts in Metra's 2026 budget, plus final budget approval (active)
- regulated by ICC — Illinois Commerce Commission jurisdiction over track, facilities and equipment of rail carriers in Illinois, and over every public crossing improvement (active)
Who holds what here
- awarded Siemens Mobility — Relay products for capital signal projects, purchase agreement (solicitation 206242), and the signals and foundations package for the bi-directional signalling project (solicitation 198403, awarded 31 May 2026) (active · since 2026-08-31)
- awarded HDR — Award to HDR Engineering, Inc. (solicitation 162291); the awards table publishes no scope description (active · since 2026-08-12)
- awarded Knorr-Bremse — Purchase agreement to Knorr Brake Company LLC (solicitation 178213) (active · since 2025-12-17)
- awarded Granite — CREATE EW2 Rock Island District Bridge 87 at 79th Street bridge raise (active · since 2025-10-10)
- awarded Wabtec — Purchase agreement to Vapor Stone Rail Systems, Div. WABTEC Corporation (solicitation 182896) (active · since 2025-10-10)
- awarded Amsted Rail — Truck parts for the Nippon Sharyo car rehabilitation project (active · since 2025-07-16)
- awarded CDM Smith — Metra award CDM Smith — CDM Smith, Inc. (active · since 2025-06)
- awarded SOM — Metra award Skidmore Owings Merrill — Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (active · since 2025-05)
- awarded AECOM — Award to AECOM Technical Services, Inc. (solicitation 144755); the awards table publishes no scope description (active · since 2025-03-19)
- awarded Wabtec — Award to Wabtec Railway Electronics, Inc. (solicitation 159183); the awards table publishes no scope description (active · since 2025-02-19)
- Contract detail and values (9)$500m–1bn · $25–100m · $5–25mIn the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (8)
- ● CREATE Program · BIDs/RFPs — bid advertisements and bid awards table (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Illinois Commerce Commission · Rail Safety Program — Illinois Rail Facts (2026), updated 03/26 (published 2026-03 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Illinois Commerce Commission · Rail Safety (functions of the Rail Safety Section; ICC.RailSafety@illinois.gov) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Metra · Board Meetings & Webcasts (Commuter Rail Division of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority and NIRCRC boards) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Metra · Metra OKs 2026 budget of $1.2 billion (published 2025-11-13 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Metra (Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation) · Procurement Operations (Purchasing) — bid tabulations and procurement awards (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Northern Illinois Transit Authority · NITA — home ('Starting September 1, NITA is now your regional transit agency') (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Northern Illinois Transit Authority · How the NITA trailer bill and 2027 state budget will impact Chicagoland transit (published 2026-06-11 · checked 2026-09-13)
Tenders
Withheld in the free surface
- Procurement structure
- Award history (19)
- Entry path
- Portals (3)
- Published contacts (4)
Full detail withheld: 5 fields. In the United States edition · See a fully open example
7 sources · all primary
- ● Metra (Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation) · Procurement Operations (Purchasing) — bid tabulations and procurement awards (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Metra · Annual Procurement Plan, plan period 3Q 2026 - 2Q 2027 (plan date 1 July 2026) (published 2026-07-01 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Metra · Capital Program — 2026 Capital Program Summary (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Metra · Metra OKs 2026 budget of $1.2 billion (published 2025-11-13 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Metra · Metra unveils 2026 construction program (published 2026-04-08 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Metra · Board Meetings & Webcasts (Commuter Rail Division of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority and NIRCRC boards) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● CREATE Program · BIDs/RFPs — bid advertisements and bid awards table (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
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