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King County Metro Transit

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Type
Transit authority — King County transit department; contract operator and maintainer of Link light rail and of the Seattle Streetcar
Market · Region
United States · Washington
Open tenders
0
Technology areas
Predictive maintenance, Digital operations, Rolling-stock hardware, Signalling & train control

Operates Link light rail, Seattle Streetcar and part of ST Express bus fleet.

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Provides day-to-day operations, maintenance, dispatching and complementary paratransit for Link light rail under contract to Sound Transit, operates the Seattle Streetcar for the City of Seattle under an interlocal agreement, and operates part of the ST Express bus fleet out of its East Base in Bellevue.

Type
Transit authority — King County transit department; contract operator and maintainer of Link light rail and of the Seattle Streetcar
Where
Washington · Seattle
Programmes
FTA Capital Investment Grants, IIJA / Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Technology areas
Predictive maintenance, Digital operations, Rolling-stock hardware, Signalling & train control

Structure

  • operates for Sound Transit — Day-to-day operations, maintenance, dispatching and complementary paratransit for Link light rail under contract (active)
  • operates for SDOT — Operator of the South Lake Union and First Hill streetcar lines under an interlocal agreement (active)
Sources for these relationships (4)

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  • Procurement structure
  • Published contacts (3)
  • Award history (3)
  • Entry path
  • Portals (3)

Full detail withheld: 5 fields. In the United States edition · See a fully open example

7 sources · all primary
  • ● King County · Procurement and Payables — E-Procurement Supplier Portal, solicitation abstracts and upcoming capital projects (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● King County · King County E-Procurement Portal — Solicitation Abstracts, read 14 September 2026 (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● King County Metro · Metro Transit — King County's transit department (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Report - Transit Development Plan 2026-2031 (submitted under RCW 35.58.2795; information current as of June 2026; Board adoption scheduled 27 August 2026) (published 2026-08-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · 2026 Adopted Budget and Financial Plan — agency overview, transit operating budgets by mode, project budgets, Transit Improvement Plan and Appendix I project and programme detail pages (published 2026-03-23 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Seattle Department of Transportation · Transit Program — Seattle Streetcar ownership and King County Metro operation; Seattle Transportation Levy transit corridors funding (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard, CIG-Public-Dashboard-09-11-2026.pdf (data last updated 09/10/2026) (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)

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