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Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Live now: 3 tenders, largest SEPTA Chinatown Station ADA Improvement Project (value not published); holds relationships with Alstom, Hitachi Rail.
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- Type
- Transit authority — Pennsylvania public transportation authority for the five south-eastern counties; Regional Rail, subway-elevated, trolley, high speed line and bus
- Market · Region
- United States · Pennsylvania
- Open tenders
- 3
- Technology areas
- Rolling-stock hardware, Signalling & train control, Predictive maintenance, Digital operations, Track & civil, Electrification, Cybersecurity, AI inspection
Runs Philadelphia regional rail, Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines on $1.84bn operating budget.
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Runs Regional Rail, the Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines, eight trolley routes and the Norristown High Speed Line across five counties — 285 subway and rail stations, 2,800 vehicles, 150 routes and about 800,000 daily trips — on a FY2027 budget of $1.84bn operating and $920.7m capital inside a $16.5bn twelve-year capital programme.
- Type
- Transit authority — Pennsylvania public transportation authority for the five south-eastern counties; Regional Rail, subway-elevated, trolley, high speed line and bus
- Where
- Pennsylvania · Philadelphia
- Programmes
- FTA Capital Investment Grants, IIJA / Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Northeast Corridor
- Technology areas
- Rolling-stock hardware, Signalling & train control, Predictive maintenance, Digital operations, Track & civil, Electrification, Cybersecurity, AI inspection
Structure
- funded by PennDOT — State operating and capital funding — of state capital funding in FY2027 (55 per cent of the capital budget) and 55 per cent of operating funding; the capital-to-operating transfer and the November 2025 safety allocation (active)
Who holds what here
- awarded Hitachi Rail — 200 M-5 railcars for the Market-Frankford Line, with an option for up to 40 more (active · since 2024-07)
- awarded Alstom — 130 low-floor ADA-compliant trolleys for Trolley Modernization, with an option for up to 30 more (active · since 2023-02)
- supplied by Amtrak — Trackage rights and property leases on Amtrak-owned Keystone East and Northeast Corridor track used by SEPTA Regional Rail (active)
- Contract detail and values (4)In the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (6)
- ● Pittsburgh Regional Transit · News Releases — light rail fleet grant, Panhandle Bridge, FY2027 budget adoption, FY2026 ridership (published 2026-09-02 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · About SEPTA — SEPTA by the Numbers and operating funding streams (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · FY 2027 Budget in Brief (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · FY 2027 Proposed Budget (operating and capital, twelve-year capital programme FY2027-38) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Moody's Revises SEPTA's Outlook to Stable (published 2026-09-04 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Trolley Vehicle Replacement — timeline and manufacturer (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
Tenders
Withheld in the free surface
- Procurement structure
- Published contacts (3)
- Award history (5)
- Entry path
- Portals (3)
Full detail withheld: 5 fields. In the United States edition · See a fully open example
11 sources · all primary
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · About SEPTA — SEPTA by the Numbers and operating funding streams (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Procurement — Procurement & Supply Chain Management Department (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Procurement and Supply Chain Management Directory (PSCM general information 215-580-8300; ePS support mailbox) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Bid & Quote Opportunities — open ePS bids and RFPs (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · FY 2027 Proposed Budget (operating and capital, twelve-year capital programme FY2027-38) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · FY 2027 Budget in Brief (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Trolley Vehicle Replacement — timeline and manufacturer (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Bon Voyage! — Exo coach cars purchased for Regional Rail; ten railcars leased from MARC (published 2026-09-12 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · SEPTA Receives $13 Million Grant from FTA (Rail Vehicle Replacement Grants, Silverliner VI) (published 2026-09-04 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Certified bid tabulation — Sealed Bid 26-00003-AJEB, 69th St TC and Jefferson Station Elevators (published 2026-08-28 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · RFQ 26-00105-AJEB Traction Power Substation Rehabilitation Program Contract 5 (Broad, Loudon, Park, Castor) — Invitation to Propose, two-step process (published 2026-05-29 · checked 2026-09-13)
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