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4 buyers · 52 tenders · checked 2026-10-03

Met Council: Green Line Extension $2.86bn (2027); Blue Extension $3.58bn at 100% design; Northstar commuter rail suspended January 5, 2026.

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Live pipeline: $3.58bn METRO Blue Line Extension official project budget, $2.86bn METRO Green Line Extension, $1.065bn Green Line Extension civil construction contract budget, $194.4m Green Line Extension systems contract, $139.3m Blue Line Extension engineering, $130.0m Green Line systems and curve renewal, $123.7m Siemens light rail vehicle contract, $120.5m Renew the Blue; 52 tracked procurements
Technology areas: Rolling-stock hardware, Signalling & train control, Track & civil, Electrification, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance, Cybersecurity, AI inspection

Key figures

Metropolitan Council Transporta…$11,422,749 thousandMetropolitan Council Transportation capital programme in the 2026 Final Adopted Unified Budget: $6,533,803 thousand of Authorized Capital Program plus $4,888,946 thousand of 2026-2031 Capital Improvement Plan, of which Metro Transit is $6,176,908 thousand plus $4,558,226 thousand and Metropolitan Transportation Services the rest

1 source · primary

● Metropolitan Council · 2026 Final Adopted Unified Budget (PDF, 155 pages, 4,548,572 bytes) — Table 9, Transportation Capital Program, and Table G-1, Capital Program Transportation, giving for every project number the 2026 Adopted Authorized Capital Program, the 2026-2031 Capital Improvement Plan by year and the ACP+CIP total, all in thousands of dollars (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)

The Council's three Federal New…$6,378,764 thousandThe Council's three Federal New Starts rail projects together in the 2026 capital programme, which is what Table G-1's own Total Federal New Starts Rail Projects line of $3,372,082 thousand authorised plus $3,006,682 thousand of capital improvement plan adds to - Metro Green Line (Southwest Corridor) $2,862,956 thousand, Metro Blue Line (Bottineau Boulevard) $3,475,745 thousand and Metro Green Line (Central Corridor) $40,063 thousand

1 source · primary

● Metropolitan Council · 2026 Final Adopted Unified Budget (PDF, 155 pages, 4,548,572 bytes) — Table 9, Transportation Capital Program, and Table G-1, Capital Program Transportation, giving for every project number the 2026 Adopted Authorized Capital Program, the 2026-2031 Capital Improvement Plan by year and the ACP+CIP total, all in thousands of dollars (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)

METRO Green Line Extension open…2027METRO Green Line Extension opening as the Council states it; the Council will announce the opening day on 26 September 2026 at the Louisiana Avenue station. As of January 2026 construction was over 90 per cent complete, all 16 stations under construction or nearly complete and all LRT track in place

2 sources · all primary

● Metropolitan Council · METRO Green Line Extension — project home page: 'Opening in 2027'; 14.5 miles added to the existing Green Line; the Council will announce the 2027 opening day on 26 September 2026 at the Louisiana Avenue station (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · About the Green Line Extension — 14.5 miles of double track, 16 new stations, 27 Type 3 light rail vehicles built by Siemens in California, about $3 billion of planned and permitted investment within a 10-minute walk of the line, and people in 70 of Minnesota's 87 counties having worked on the project. The Council's own Project-Facts.aspx address redirects here (HTTP 302), and this is the resolved page read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 68,436 bytes). (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

Southwest LRT projected budget…$2.86 billionSouthwest LRT projected budget as of January 2024 in the Office of the Legislative Auditor's April 2025 performance audit, against an original 2011 Council projection of $1.25 billion; the Council's own 2026 capital programme carries project 61001 at $2,862,956 thousand

2 sources · all primary

● Office of the Legislative Auditor, State of Minnesota · Financial Audit Division, Performance Audit: Metropolitan Council — Southwest Light Rail Transit Construction, April 2025 (PDF, 48 pages, 3,492,439 bytes), transmittal dated 7 April 2025, covering the period 1 January 2019 through 31 March 2023 Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the server's content-length for this PDF is 3,660,150 bytes. (published 2025-04-07 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · 2026 Final Adopted Unified Budget (PDF, 155 pages, 4,548,572 bytes) — Table 9, Transportation Capital Program, and Table G-1, Capital Program Transportation, giving for every project number the 2026 Adopted Authorized Capital Program, the 2026-2031 Capital Improvement Plan by year and the ACP+CIP total, all in thousands of dollars (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)

Southwest LRT civil constructio…$1.065 billionSouthwest LRT civil construction contract budget as of December 2024, as the Office of the Legislative Auditor states it; the contract was awarded to Lunda/C.S. McCrossan Joint Venture for $799.5 million after the Council rejected all of the initial bid submissions, executed change orders reached $227.7 million by 31 March 2023 'for a total contract amount of about $1.027 billion', and the March 2022 settlement agreement obliged the Council to pay an additional $210 million to $288.1 million, of which the Council's 17-member governing board authorised up to $285 million in August 2023; the auditor's own sidebar totals original, change orders and settlement at $1.312 billion

1 source · primary

● Office of the Legislative Auditor, State of Minnesota · Financial Audit Division, Performance Audit: Metropolitan Council — Southwest Light Rail Transit Construction, April 2025 (PDF, 48 pages, 3,492,439 bytes), transmittal dated 7 April 2025, covering the period 1 January 2019 through 31 March 2023 Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the server's content-length for this PDF is 3,660,150 bytes. (published 2025-04-07 · checked 2026-09-14)

METRO Blue Line Extension offic…$3.58 billionMETRO Blue Line Extension official project budget set by Council project staff in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration after the Federal Risk Assessment and near the 90 per cent design milestone; the FTA's CIG dashboard of 10 September 2026 records a Project Cost of $3,580.0 million with a CIG funding request of $752.7 million at a 21 per cent CIG share and a construction grant estimated for early 2027

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● Metropolitan Council · METRO Blue Line Extension — project home page: 'With the recent completion of the Federal Risk Assessment process and the project nearing the 90% design milestone, project staff in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration have set an official project budget of $3.58 billion'; 90 per cent design by summer 2026 and 100 per cent by autumn 2026; construction anticipated to begin in 2027 The /Current-Projects/ address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved page read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 61,879 bytes). (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard, CIG-Public-Dashboard-09-11-2026.pdf (2 pages, 113,180 bytes), 'Last updated: 09/10/2026': METRO Blue Line Extension (Bottineau LRT), sponsor Met Council, Minneapolis MN, phase Eng, length 13.4, 13 stations, project cost $3,580.0 million, CIG funding request $752.7 million, CIG share 21 per cent, NEPA completion 8/11/2025, PD entry 08/22/2014, ENG entry 01/19/2017, non-CIG matching funds In Progress, estimated grant date Early 2027; the footnote records that the 8/11/2025 date is the Amended Record of Decision and that the original ROD date was 09/19/2016 Read with the full browser header set; a plain curl is answered HTTP 403. (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)

Metropolitan Council solicitati…1 of 16Metropolitan Council solicitations open on the Council's own Contracting Opportunities list on 14 September 2026 that are rail-scope and carry a published figure at or above the US$5 million market floor, out of sixteen records on the list in all. The one carried is the Lindberg Tunnel LVT & Track Replacement, contract 26P151, closing 15 September 2026. The fifteen not carried are, in full: two rail solicitations with no figure at or above the floor - Ultrasonic Rail Testing, contract 26P133, an annual internal rail defect inspection service closing 13 October 2026 for which no value is published and no line on the Council's February 2026 forecast schedule matches, and Blue Line O&M Non-Rev Chargers, contract 26P068, closing 8 October 2026, an electrical connection, transformer, panel and branch circuits for non-revenue vehicles whose own Project Number 64414 is a capital line carrying $200 thousand; and thirteen that are not rail - Electric Motor Repair & Testing (26P114), Housing Forward Cities Missing Middle (26P159), Metro WRRF EPS Electrical (26P103), Bus Operations Upgrade at East Metro Garage (26P176), Nicollet Garage Lot Gate (26P030), Interceptor 1-MN-346 Rehabilitation Phase 2 (26P083), Facility Alum (26P215), Modernizing Existing Interchanges (26P230), On-Call Accounting and Auditing Services (26P203), Bus Roof-Top Maintenance Platform System (26P184), Fan Wall System Installation at East Metro Garage (26P120), Metro Transit Police Department Lighting Controls Replacement (26P204, MCUB Select) and Displacement Dashboard Development (26P232, a small contract under $175,000)

6 sources · all primary

● Metropolitan Council · Contracting Opportunities — the Council's own publicly advertised solicitation list, server-rendered HTML; the page states 'Contracting opportunities last updated on 9/11/2026'. Read 14 September 2026: fourteen RFP/IFB records, one MCUB Select record and one small-contract record. Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the raw HTML of this page is 65,804 to 65,820 bytes. (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Contract 26P151, Advertisement for Bids — Revised(2), Lindberg Tunnel LVT & Track Replacement, Project Number 61601, dated 4 August 2026; sealed bids received and publicly opened Thursday 15 September 2026 at 2:00PM; QuestCDN eBidDoc 10266423 (published 2026-08-04 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Contract 26P133, Notice of Request for Proposals for Ultrasonic Rail Testing; issue date 9 September 2026, proposals due 13 October 2026 at 4:00 PM CDT, award date December 2026; QuestCDN eBidDoc 10358897 (published 2026-09-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Contract 26P068, Advertisement for Bids, Blue Line O&M – Non-Rev Chargers, Project Number 64414, dated 2 September 2026; bids opened 8 October 2026 at 2:00PM (published 2026-09-02 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · 2026 Final Adopted Unified Budget (PDF, 155 pages, 4,548,572 bytes) — Table 9, Transportation Capital Program, and Table G-1, Capital Program Transportation, giving for every project number the 2026 Adopted Authorized Capital Program, the 2026-2031 Capital Improvement Plan by year and the ACP+CIP total, all in thousands of dollars (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Forecasted Contracting Opportunities, dated 2/6/2026 (PDF, 15 pages, 431,322 bytes) — the Council's own forward schedule giving, for each anticipated procurement, the project title, contract type, description, an Estimated Contract Value class, the expected IFB or RFP advertisement quarter, the procurement method and the division unit The Council's Forecasted-Contracts.aspx address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved address of the PDF itself, read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 431,322 bytes, 15 pages, dated 2/6/2026). (published 2026-02-06 · checked 2026-09-14)

Metro Transit rides in 2025 acr…50,890,857Metro Transit rides in 2025 across all modes, at an average weekday of 155,037, as Metro Transit publishes them through 31 December 2025; of the modes it lists separately the METRO Green Line carried 7,541,564 rides at an average weekday of 22,445 and the METRO Blue Line 5,708,508 at an average weekday of 15,804, on-time performance being 71 per cent on the Green Line and 90 per cent on the Blue Line. Metro Transit publishes no Northstar ridership figure in the 2025 fact book.

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● Metro Transit · Metro Transit Facts through Dec. 31, 2025 (2025 fact book PDF, 2 pages, 324,849 bytes): 50,890,857 total rides and 155,037 average weekday ridership; Green Line 7,541,564 rides and 22,445 average weekday; Blue Line 5,708,508 rides and 15,804 average weekday; 90 per cent Blue Line and 71 per cent Green Line on-time performance; 27 Bombardier and 91 Siemens light rail vehicles; 37 light rail stations; 3,551 total employees of whom 128 are light rail operators; $758.9 million total revenue and total expenses on the adopted 2025 budget (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metro Transit · Metro Transit Facts — 'Data below is as of Dec. 31, 2025, or from Jan. 1, 2025 through Dec. 31, 2025' (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

Metro Transit light rail vehicl…27 Bombardier and 91 SiemensMetro Transit light rail vehicles through 31 December 2025 as the fact book lists them by builder, serving 37 light rail stations, with 128 light rail operators among 3,551 total employees; average miles between service calls 55,504 for light rail against 5,577 for bus

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● Metro Transit · Metro Transit Facts through Dec. 31, 2025 (2025 fact book PDF, 2 pages, 324,849 bytes): 50,890,857 total rides and 155,037 average weekday ridership; Green Line 7,541,564 rides and 22,445 average weekday; Blue Line 5,708,508 rides and 15,804 average weekday; 90 per cent Blue Line and 71 per cent Green Line on-time performance; 27 Bombardier and 91 Siemens light rail vehicles; 37 light rail stations; 3,551 total employees of whom 128 are light rail operators; $758.9 million total revenue and total expenses on the adopted 2025 budget (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

Date from which MnDOT states No…5 January 2026Date from which MnDOT states Northstar commuter rail service was suspended by Metro Transit; the Council approved the suspension and the replacement bus plan on 27 August 2025, recording a 2025 Northstar operating budget of $18.6 million, a 2023 subsidy per ride of $116.60 against $16.07 for commuter express bus, pre-pandemic average weekday ridership of 2,660 and first-half-2025 average daily ridership below 500

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● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Passenger rail in Minnesota: existing intercity services Borealis and Empire Builder; 'Northstar commuter rail service was suspended by Metro Transit effective Jan. 5, 2026. In its place, Metro Transit is operating an expanded bus service'; current studies including the Twin Cities-Duluth/Superior Corridor (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-178 — Northstar Commuter Rail Suspension and Replacement Service Plan; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-08-27. The Council's own decision record for suspending Northstar, with the ridership, subsidy-per-ride and operating-budget figures and the BNSF contract restriction. (published 2025-08-27 · checked 2026-09-14)

MnDOT's most recent cost estima…$718.9 millionMnDOT's most recent cost estimate for the Northern Lights Express Minneapolis-Duluth corridor, which MnDOT states is based on capital improvements identified in 2017, rests on a MnDOT analysis and did not include input from partners such as the host railroad; the corridor holds a $500,000 FRA Corridor ID Step 1 obligation of 26 March 2024 and no Step 2 or Step 3 obligation as of the FRA's report of 31 March 2026. Three further Corridor ID corridors in the FRA's report of 31 March 2026 reach the Twin Cities and none of them has a Minnesota sponsor, so none is carried as a Minnesota record: Eau Claire-Twin Cities Corridor, sponsor Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, obligated 5 June 2024 at $500,000; Milwaukee - Madison - Eau Claire - Twin Cities Corridor, sponsor Wisconsin DOT, obligated 1 May 2024 at $500,000; and TCMC Service Expansion via La Crosse, sponsor Wisconsin DOT, obligated 20 June 2024 at $500,000 - the second Borealis frequency, which MnDOT's own Borealis page describes as the work of a Phase 2 environmental study that WisDOT leads

2 sources · all primary

● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Northern Lights Express frequently asked questions — 'The most recent cost estimate is $718.9 million. This number is based on capital improvements that were identified in 2017. The estimate is based on a MnDOT analysis and did not include input from partners, such as the host railroad.'; May 2023 legislative appropriation of $194.7 million and the May 2025 shift of $77.232 million away from the project; $500,000 of CIDP funds received; four round trips a day at up to 90 mph with new stations at Coon Rapids, Cambridge, Hinckley and Superior, Wisconsin; 80 per cent federal and 20 per cent state funding (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Federal Railroad Administration · Corridor ID Program Monthly Obligation Status Report, CID Obligation Status Report_3.31.26_PDFa.pdf (3 pages, 611,403 bytes), 'Last updated: Tuesday March 31, 2026': under New Conventional Rail, Northern Lights Express, corridor sponsor Minnesota DOT, Step 1 obligation date 3/26/2024, Step 1 obligation funds $500,000, with no Step 2 and no Step 3 obligation recorded Read with the full browser header set (HTTP 200, 611,403 bytes); a plain curl is answered HTTP 403. (published 2026-03-31 · checked 2026-09-14)

Start of the Borealis daily St.…21 May 2024Start of the Borealis daily St. Paul-Milwaukee-Chicago round trip, a partnership of the Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota departments of transportation with FRA funding and Amtrak providing the service; capital funding of a $31.8 million FRA CRISI grant with $11.8 million from MnDOT, $6.5 million from WisDOT and $5 million from Amtrak, and operating support of FRA Restoration & Enhancement grants of $12.6 million and $38.6 million

1 source · primary

● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Borealis — daily St. Paul–Milwaukee–Chicago round trip begun 21 May 2024 over part of the 411-mile Empire Builder corridor; capital funding of a $31.8 million FRA CRISI grant of September 2020 with $5 million from Amtrak, $11.8 million from MnDOT and $6.5 million from WisDOT; operating support of a $12.6 million FRA Restoration & Enhancement grant of May 2020 and a second of $38.6 million in January 2025; project schedule with final design 2021-2026 and construction 2026-2028 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

Rail-scope projects on MnDOT's…0 of 23Rail-scope projects on MnDOT's 12-month tentative letting schedule read on 14 September 2026, which covers 23 lettings from 23 September 2026 to 25 August 2027. The only keyword matches in the whole workbook are a bridge railing retrofit on the Mendota Bridge at $3,700,000, a bridge railing replacement within a $32,000,000 Minneapolis reconstruction, and a $250,000 school crossing in Albert Lea - none of them railway work

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● Minnesota Department of Transportation · 12-month tentative letting schedule (Excel workbook, 3,057,374 bytes; 23 letting sheets from 23 September 2026 to 25 August 2027), giving for every anticipated project the district, state project number, trunk highway, description, length and engineer's estimate (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Department of Transportation · MnDOT project advertisements — the letting site listing MnDOT highway construction and maintenance projects currently advertised for bidding, by letting date and district (HTTP 200, 11,629 bytes). The letting-date postback is served to curl when the POST carries the page's own __VIEWSTATE, __VIEWSTATEGENERATOR, __VIEWSTATEENCRYPTED and __EVENTVALIDATION, the two select values and the submit button ctl00$MainContent$btnAdvert, and no __EVENTTARGET; all four letting dates on the dropdown on 14 September 2026 (09/23, 10/13, 10/28 and 11/10/2026) returned the advertisement table, 15,474 to 24,409 bytes, and none contains a rail-scope project. (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-14)

Rail-scope solicitations on Min…0 of 144Rail-scope solicitations on Minnesota's statewide procurement routes on 14 September 2026: 55 postings on the Office of State Procurement's Goods and Services page, 26 on its Professional and Technical page and 63 bidding events on the SWIFT Supplier Portal, read at 13:54 Central time, and not one of the 144 is rail. Three of the 63 SWIFT events are Transportation Department events - 2000018661, brine pumps, valves and flowmeters delivered to Rochester, posted 4 September 2026; 2000018668, a strip seal joint for bridge 24826, posted 4 September 2026; and 2000018686, MnDOT D1 Virginia 3 TON JIB CRANE, posted 14 September 2026 - and none of the three is rail work. The SWIFT portal's own notice records that its listing 'does not include all bidding opportunities', and both Office of State Procurement pages name a fifth state route this count does not cover: 'Major construction projects are advertised in our Virtual Plan Room.' Neither page hyperlinks the Virtual Plan Room and its address could not be resolved by curl on 14 September 2026 - mn.gov and www.mmd.admin.state.mn.us answered the bot-manager challenge to every path tried, and /VPR-auto, /VPR, /virtual-plan-room and /construction on osp.admin.mn.gov all returned a genuine HTTP 404 from the site itself - so nothing is asserted about what it contains.

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● Minnesota Office of State Procurement, Department of Administration · Goods and Services Solicitation Postings — the state's current goods-and-services solicitation list; 55 postings on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 51,944 bytes, server-rendered, after the host's first-request bot-manager challenge is answered and its cookies carried forward). The page's own header text names a further route: 'Major construction projects are advertised in our Virtual Plan Room.' (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Office of State Procurement, Department of Administration · Professional and Technical Solicitation Postings — the state's current professional-and-technical solicitation list; 26 postings on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 18,930 bytes, server-rendered, after the host's first-request bot-manager challenge is answered and its cookies carried forward). Carries the same header text naming the Virtual Plan Room as the route for major construction projects. (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Management and Budget / Office of State Procurement · SWIFT Minnesota Supplier Portal, Bidding Event Information (guest view) — 63 bidding events listed on 14 September 2026 at 13:54 Central time (HTTP 200, 28,154–28,162 bytes, the grid inline in the HTML, after the host's first-request bot-manager challenge is answered). Three are Transportation Department events (2000018661, 2000018668, 2000018686) and none of the 63 is rail. The portal's own notice: 'This listing does not include all bidding opportunities.' (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)

MnDOT states in a June 2026 upd…no 2026 solicitationMnDOT states in a June 2026 update that the Minnesota Rail Service Improvement Program did not receive new funding in the 2026 legislative session and that it is not planning a grant solicitation for 2026; the 2025 solicitation made up to $4.5 million available, being $1 million of new bond funding from the 2025 legislative special session and $3.5 million reallocated from previous projects, and closed on 9 January 2026

2 sources · all primary

● Minnesota Department of Transportation · MRSI grant page — 'Minnesota Legislative Update (June 2026): The MRSI Program did not receive new funding in the 2026 legislative session. MnDOT is not planning a grant solicitation for 2026.'; the 2025 solicitation made up to $4.5 million available, being $1 million in new bond funding approved in the 2025 legislative special session and $3.5 million in bond funding reallocated from previous projects, and closed on 9 January 2026 (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Minnesota Rail Service Improvement Program — established in 1976; provides grants for freight rail service improvement projects and ongoing no-interest loans for capital improvements, rail line rehabilitation and rail purchase assistance (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

Public highway-rail grade cross…more than 4,500Public highway-rail grade crossings in Minnesota for which MnDOT coordinates rail crossing safety, trunk highway projects and rail regulatory activities; MnDOT adopted the updated Minnesota State Rail Plan in May 2026

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● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Freight Railroads — MnDOT coordinates rail crossing safety, trunk highway projects and rail regulatory activities for more than 4,500 public highway-rail grade crossings throughout Minnesota; 'In May 2026, MnDOT adopted the updated Minnesota State Rail Plan' (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Minnesota State Rail Plan — 'In May 2026, MnDOT released the updated Minnesota State Rail Plan', part of the Minnesota GO 50-Year Vision for Transportation, providing direction for freight and passenger railroads over the next two decades (published 2026-05 · checked 2026-09-14)

Federal contract opportunities…0 Minnesota rail noticesFederal contract opportunities for Minnesota rail on SAM.gov's public search service on 14 September 2026: a query for rail opportunities in Minnesota returned 217 active notices, every one of them from a federal buyer - the Army Corps of Engineers districts, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command, the Federal Railroad Administration's own research announcements and NAVFAC - and none from a Minnesota body. One observation for the next reader: the service's own state filters do not constrain the result set as their names suggest, so every result has to be filtered client-side on the place of performance before any count is taken from it

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● US General Services Administration · SAM.gov public search service, queried for rail opportunities in Minnesota on 14 September 2026 (GET /api/prod/sgs/v1/search/?index=opp&q=rail%20Minnesota&page=0&size=25&is_active=true with Accept: application/hal+json; HTTP 200, 21,833 bytes, 217 total results). Every result is a federal buyer — the Army Corps of Engineers districts, Mission and Installation Contracting Command, the FRA's own research announcements and NAVFAC — and none is a Minnesota body or a Minnesota rail procurement (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)

Buyers

Buyer	Type	Tenders	Contracts awarded
Metropolitan Council	Transit authority	50	5
Minnesota Department of Transportation	State DOT	2	0
Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority	Development authority	0	0
Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority	Development authority	0	0

Tenders

Tender	Buyer	Status	Value band	Next key date
Lindberg Tunnel low-vibration track replacement	Met Council	Bids closed	estimated contract value 'Over $10M' as the Council's own Forecasted Contracting Opportunities schedule prints it - an open-ended class with a published floor and no ceiling, not a point estimate	Bids closed September 2026 · award expected
METRO Green Line Extension Southwest LRT	Met Council	In execution	over $1bn	Completion 2027
METRO Green Line Extension civil construction	Met Council	In execution	over $1bn
METRO Blue Line Extension engineering	Met Council	In execution	$100–500m
METRO Green Line Extension systems construction	Met Council	In execution	$100–500m	Awarded September 2019
Twenty-seven Type 3 vehicles Green Line Extension	Met Council	In execution	$100–500m
METRO Green Line Extension construction management	Met Council	In execution	$25–100m
METRO Green Line Extension legal services	Met Council	In execution	$25–100m
METRO Blue Line Extension utility relocation	Met Council	In execution	$5–25m
METRO Green Line Extension freight rail maintenance	Met Council	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded November 2022
Stray current rail engineering services	Met Council	In execution	$5–25m	Published June 2025
METRO Blue Line Extension Bottineau LRT	Met Council	Planned	over $1bn	Sanctioned September 2026
Northern Lights Express Minneapolis-Duluth rail	MnDOT	Planned	$500m–1bn
Blue Line state of good repair Phase 3	Met Council	Planned	$100–500m	Sanctioned December 2025
Green Line state of good repair systems	Met Council	Planned	$100–500m	Sanctioned December 2025
Green Line St. Paul LRV storage expansion	Met Council	Planned	$25–100m	Sanctioned December 2025
Blue Line embedded tangent track state repair	Met Council	Planned	$25–100m	Sanctioned December 2025
LRT state of good repair systems curves	Met Council	Planned	$25–100m	Sanctioned December 2025
Lindbergh Tunnel low-vibration track blocks rail	Met Council	Planned	$25–100m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line Lake Street Midtown renovation	Met Council	Planned	$25–100m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line enhancements Mall of America	Met Council	Planned	$25–100m	Sanctioned December 2025
Metro Green Line Central Corridor New Start	Met Council	Planned	$25–100m	Sanctioned December 2025
Special trackwork replacement	Met Council	Planned	$25–100m	Sanctioned December 2025
Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago Borealis service	MnDOT	Planned	$25–100m	Target 2026
Bass Lake Spur state of good repair	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Beltline Boulevard station park-and-ride	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Light rail network bridge maintenance programme	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Bus and rail maintenance improvements	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Downtown Hopkins LRT station parking	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Franklin operations maintenance yard rehabilitation	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Green Line Type 3 vehicle first overhaul	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Green Line facility right-of-way improvements	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Hiawatha light rail line capital maintenance	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
LRT platform state of good repair	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Light rail Northstar facility roof improvements	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Light rail vehicle Type 2 brake overhaul	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Light rail vehicle Type 2 first overhaul	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line Franklin Avenue renovation	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line Type 1 corrosion mitigation	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line Type 1 overhaul 3	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Green Lines variable message sign replacement	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line facility improvements	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line option light rail vehicles	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line substation breaker replacement	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Northstar locomotive overhaul	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
Northwest Corridor light rail line	Met Council	Planned	$5–25m	Sanctioned December 2025
METRO Blue Line DC breaker retrofit	Met Council	Planned	estimated contract value 'Over $10M' as the Council prints it - an open-ended class with a published floor and no ceiling
METRO Blue Line Extension civil systems	Met Council	Planned	value not published - the Council's own forecast schedule gives the Estimated Contract Value as 'TBD'
METRO Blue Line Franklin Avenue renovation construction	Met Council	Planned	estimated contract value 'Over $10M' as the Council prints it - an open-ended class with a published floor and no ceiling
METRO Blue Line Lake Street Midtown renovation construction	Met Council	Planned	estimated contract value 'Over $10M' as the Council prints it - an open-ended class with a published floor and no ceiling
METRO Green Line signal system replacement	Met Council	Planned	estimated contract value 'Over $10M' as the Council prints it - an open-ended class with a published floor and no ceiling
St. Paul OMF LRV storage barn	Met Council	Cancelled	$25–100m

Cities

City	Network status	Networks
Minneapolis	operational - METRO Blue Line light rail from Target Field to the Mall of America through the Lindberg Tunnel at Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport, METRO Green Line light rail to downtown Saint Paul, Amtrak's Empire Builder and Borealis at the Saint Paul-Minneapolis station, and the Northstar commuter rail terminus at Target Field, suspended since 5 January 2026; the METRO Green Line Extension opens in 2027 and the METRO Blue Line Extension is in engineering	METRO Blue Line; METRO Green Line; METRO Green Line Extension (2027); METRO Blue Line Extension (planned); Northstar Commuter Rail (suspended); Amtrak Empire Builder; Amtrak Borealis
Saint Paul	operational - METRO Green Line light rail from downtown Saint Paul to downtown Minneapolis, Amtrak's Empire Builder and Borealis at Saint Paul Union Depot, and the Green Line operations and maintenance facility at 340 North Broadway Avenue	METRO Green Line; Amtrak Empire Builder; Amtrak Borealis
Bloomington	operational - METRO Blue Line light rail through Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and on to the Mall of America	METRO Blue Line
Brooklyn Park	planned - northern terminus of the 13.4-mile METRO Blue Line Extension, in the Engineering phase of the FTA's Capital Investment Grants programme with a construction grant estimated for early 2027	METRO Blue Line Extension (planned)
Eden Prairie	under construction - western terminus of the 14.5-mile METRO Green Line Extension, opening in 2027	METRO Green Line Extension (2027)
Hopkins	under construction - METRO Green Line Extension stations and the Hopkins Rail Support Facility, which the Council reported 97 per cent complete in August 2026	METRO Green Line Extension (2027)
Duluth	planned - northern terminus of the proposed Northern Lights Express, which MnDOT describes as 'a proposed intercity passenger rail service between Minneapolis and Duluth' on the Twin Cities-Duluth/Superior Corridor, in Step 1 of the FRA's Corridor Identification and Development Program; MnDOT states the existing Duluth station would be upgraded and that the service is expected to make four round trips a day connecting Duluth/Superior and Minneapolis	Northern Lights Express (planned)
St. Cloud	operational - Amtrak Empire Builder station stop, one daily train in each direction	Amtrak Empire Builder
Winona	operational - Amtrak station stop served twice daily in each direction: the Empire Builder, one daily train in each direction, and the Borealis St. Paul-Milwaukee-Chicago round trip that began on 21 May 2024, whose stop list on the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's own Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago project page runs '...La Crosse, Wisconsin; Winona, Minnesota; Red Wing, Minnesota; St. Paul Union Depot'	Amtrak Empire Builder; Amtrak Borealis
Red Wing	operational - Amtrak station stop served twice daily in each direction: the Empire Builder, one daily train in each direction, and the Borealis St. Paul-Milwaukee-Chicago round trip that began on 21 May 2024, whose stop list on the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's own Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago project page runs '...La Crosse, Wisconsin; Winona, Minnesota; Red Wing, Minnesota; St. Paul Union Depot'	Amtrak Empire Builder; Amtrak Borealis
Staples	operational - Amtrak Empire Builder station stop, one daily train in each direction	Amtrak Empire Builder
Detroit Lakes	operational - Amtrak Empire Builder station stop, one daily train in each direction	Amtrak Empire Builder

Players with a footprint here

Player	Kind	Footprint
Kimley-Horn	Engineering consultant	Project presence

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Sources

● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-165 — METRO Green Line Extension Construction Support Legal Services Contract 20P007 – Amendment No. 3; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-07-23. Venable, LLC; adds $8,977,000 for a total not-to-exceed $28,227,000. (published 2025-07-23 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-178 — Northstar Commuter Rail Suspension and Replacement Service Plan; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-08-27. The Council's own decision record for suspending Northstar, with the ridership, subsidy-per-ride and operating-budget figures and the BNSF contract restriction. (published 2025-08-27 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-187 — METRO Blue Line Extension – Kimley-Horn Amendment, Contract 22P103A; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-11-12. Increases the contract value by $42,900,000 for a total not-to-exceed $139,275,448; the committee record states that the funds are flowing from Hennepin County to the Council. (published 2025-11-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-301 — METRO Green Line Extension Construction Management Support Services Contract 17P060 – Amendment No. 7; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-12-03. Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.; adds $2,694,772.57 for a total not-to-exceed $26,229,825.55. (published 2025-12-03 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2026-105 — Northstar Equipment Lease Agreement with Sound Transit, Contract 26M055; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2026-05-27. Lease of one Northstar locomotive to Sound Transit, June to August 2026, at no cost to the Council. (published 2026-05-27 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2026-107 — METRO Green Line Extension Aldridge Parsons Joint Venture Change Order to Contract 17P000; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2026-06-24. Carries the original systems contract award date and amount, the change-order authority table and the change-order amount. (published 2026-06-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2026-113 — St. Paul OMF LRV Storage Barn, Contract 25P196; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2026-07-08. Rejection of all bids, with the four bid amounts, the design consultant's estimate and the funds available. (published 2026-07-08 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2026-33 SW — METRO Blue Line Extension – Master Utility Agreement #24M045 with Northern States Power Company; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2026-02-25. Not-to-exceed $18,600,000 for reimbursement of compensable utility relocation costs. (published 2026-02-25 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2026-55 — METRO Blue Line Extension – Utility Relocation Agreement #25M010 with Qwest Corporation d/b/a CenturyLink QC; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2026-03-11. Not-to-exceed $2,356,016; below the market floor and named rather than carried. (published 2026-03-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2026-63 — METRO Green Line Extension LRT Project: Amendment No. 7 to Light Rail Vehicle Contract 15P148 with Siemens; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2026-03-25. Carries the vehicle contract's execution date, quantity and full amendment history with amounts. (published 2026-03-25 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · METRO Blue Line Extension — project home page: 'With the recent completion of the Federal Risk Assessment process and the project nearing the 90% design milestone, project staff in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration have set an official project budget of $3.58 billion'; 90 per cent design by summer 2026 and 100 per cent by autumn 2026; construction anticipated to begin in 2027 The /Current-Projects/ address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved page read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 61,879 bytes). (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard, CIG-Public-Dashboard-09-11-2026.pdf (2 pages, 113,180 bytes), 'Last updated: 09/10/2026': METRO Blue Line Extension (Bottineau LRT), sponsor Met Council, Minneapolis MN, phase Eng, length 13.4, 13 stations, project cost $3,580.0 million, CIG funding request $752.7 million, CIG share 21 per cent, NEPA completion 8/11/2025, PD entry 08/22/2014, ENG entry 01/19/2017, non-CIG matching funds In Progress, estimated grant date Early 2027; the footnote records that the 8/11/2025 date is the Amended Record of Decision and that the original ROD date was 09/19/2016 Read with the full browser header set; a plain curl is answered HTTP 403. (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · METRO Green Line Extension — project home page: 'Opening in 2027'; 14.5 miles added to the existing Green Line; the Council will announce the 2027 opening day on 26 September 2026 at the Louisiana Avenue station (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · 2026 Final Adopted Unified Budget (PDF, 155 pages, 4,548,572 bytes) — Table 9, Transportation Capital Program, and Table G-1, Capital Program Transportation, giving for every project number the 2026 Adopted Authorized Capital Program, the 2026-2031 Capital Improvement Plan by year and the ACP+CIP total, all in thousands of dollars (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Forecasted Contracting Opportunities, dated 2/6/2026 (PDF, 15 pages, 431,322 bytes) — the Council's own forward schedule giving, for each anticipated procurement, the project title, contract type, description, an Estimated Contract Value class, the expected IFB or RFP advertisement quarter, the procurement method and the division unit The Council's Forecasted-Contracts.aspx address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved address of the PDF itself, read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 431,322 bytes, 15 pages, dated 2/6/2026). (published 2026-02-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metropolitan Council · Contracting Opportunities — the Council's own publicly advertised solicitation list, server-rendered HTML; the page states 'Contracting opportunities last updated on 9/11/2026'. Read 14 September 2026: fourteen RFP/IFB records, one MCUB Select record and one small-contract record. Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the raw HTML of this page is 65,804 to 65,820 bytes. (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Borealis — daily St. Paul–Milwaukee–Chicago round trip begun 21 May 2024 over part of the 411-mile Empire Builder corridor; capital funding of a $31.8 million FRA CRISI grant of September 2020 with $5 million from Amtrak, $11.8 million from MnDOT and $6.5 million from WisDOT; operating support of a $12.6 million FRA Restoration & Enhancement grant of May 2020 and a second of $38.6 million in January 2025; project schedule with final design 2021-2026 and construction 2026-2028 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Department of Transportation · 12-month tentative letting schedule (Excel workbook, 3,057,374 bytes; 23 letting sheets from 23 September 2026 to 25 August 2027), giving for every anticipated project the district, state project number, trunk highway, description, length and engineer's estimate (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Department of Transportation · MRSI grant page — 'Minnesota Legislative Update (June 2026): The MRSI Program did not receive new funding in the 2026 legislative session. MnDOT is not planning a grant solicitation for 2026.'; the 2025 solicitation made up to $4.5 million available, being $1 million in new bond funding approved in the 2025 legislative special session and $3.5 million in bond funding reallocated from previous projects, and closed on 9 January 2026 (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Northern Lights Express frequently asked questions — 'The most recent cost estimate is $718.9 million. This number is based on capital improvements that were identified in 2017. The estimate is based on a MnDOT analysis and did not include input from partners, such as the host railroad.'; May 2023 legislative appropriation of $194.7 million and the May 2025 shift of $77.232 million away from the project; $500,000 of CIDP funds received; four round trips a day at up to 90 mph with new stations at Coon Rapids, Cambridge, Hinckley and Superior, Wisconsin; 80 per cent federal and 20 per cent state funding (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Passenger rail in Minnesota: existing intercity services Borealis and Empire Builder; 'Northstar commuter rail service was suspended by Metro Transit effective Jan. 5, 2026. In its place, Metro Transit is operating an expanded bus service'; current studies including the Twin Cities-Duluth/Superior Corridor (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Metro Transit · Metro Transit Facts through Dec. 31, 2025 (2025 fact book PDF, 2 pages, 324,849 bytes): 50,890,857 total rides and 155,037 average weekday ridership; Green Line 7,541,564 rides and 22,445 average weekday; Blue Line 5,708,508 rides and 15,804 average weekday; 90 per cent Blue Line and 71 per cent Green Line on-time performance; 27 Bombardier and 91 Siemens light rail vehicles; 37 light rail stations; 3,551 total employees of whom 128 are light rail operators; $758.9 million total revenue and total expenses on the adopted 2025 budget (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Office of the Legislative Auditor, State of Minnesota · Financial Audit Division, Performance Audit: Metropolitan Council — Southwest Light Rail Transit Construction, April 2025 (PDF, 48 pages, 3,492,439 bytes), transmittal dated 7 April 2025, covering the period 1 January 2019 through 31 March 2023 Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the server's content-length for this PDF is 3,660,150 bytes. (published 2025-04-07 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Office of State Procurement, Department of Administration · Goods and Services Solicitation Postings — the state's current goods-and-services solicitation list; 55 postings on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 51,944 bytes, server-rendered, after the host's first-request bot-manager challenge is answered and its cookies carried forward). The page's own header text names a further route: 'Major construction projects are advertised in our Virtual Plan Room.' (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Office of State Procurement, Department of Administration · Professional and Technical Solicitation Postings — the state's current professional-and-technical solicitation list; 26 postings on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 18,930 bytes, server-rendered, after the host's first-request bot-manager challenge is answered and its cookies carried forward). Carries the same header text naming the Virtual Plan Room as the route for major construction projects. (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Minnesota Management and Budget / Office of State Procurement · SWIFT Minnesota Supplier Portal, Bidding Event Information (guest view) — 63 bidding events listed on 14 September 2026 at 13:54 Central time (HTTP 200, 28,154–28,162 bytes, the grid inline in the HTML, after the host's first-request bot-manager challenge is answered). Three are Transportation Department events (2000018661, 2000018668, 2000018686) and none of the 63 is rail. The portal's own notice: 'This listing does not include all bidding opportunities.' (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)

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