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Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) - FY 2025

Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation
CFDA: 20.823
Federal FON: MA-PID-25-001
Office: Maritime Administration (MARAD)
Multipart Grant: No
Next Due: 04/30/2025 (Application)
Solicitation Date: 01/31/2025
   
Match Required: Yes
Match Type: Unspecified
Actual Funds: $450,000,000 (Estimated)
Summary:

The purpose of this program is to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to ports. Projects must be located either within the boundary of a port, or outside the boundary of a port and directly related to port operations or to an intermodal connection to a port.

Funding may be provided for capital projects that will be used to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of:

  • The loading and unloading of goods at the port, such as for marine terminal equipment
  • The movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port, such as for highway or rail infrastructure, intermodal facilities, freight intelligent transportation systems, and digital infrastructure systems
  • Operational improvements, including projects to improve port resilience
  • Environmental and emissions mitigation measures, including:
    • Port electrification or electrification master planning
    • Harbor craft or equipment replacements or retrofits
    • Development of port or terminal microgrids
    • Provision of idling reduction infrastructure
    • Purchase of cargo handling equipment and related infrastructure
    • Worker training to support electrification technology
    • Installation of port bunkering facilities from ocean-going vessels for fuels
    • Electric vehicle charging or hydrogen refueling infrastructure for drayage and medium- or heavy-duty trucks and locomotives that service the port and related grid upgrades
    • Other related port activities, including charging infrastructure, electric rubber-tired gantry cranes, and anti-idling technologies
  • Infrastructure that supports seafood and seafood-related businesses

Planning awards may also be made, including those related to development phase activities, such as:

  • Planning
  • Feasibility analysis
  • Revenue forecasting
  • Environmental review
  • Permitting
  • Preliminary engineering and design work
  • Development of master plans
  • Electrification master planning
  • Planning to address a port's ability to withstand probable occurrence or recurrence of an emergency or major disaster

The funding agency seeks to support projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector; incorporate evidence-based climate resilience measures and features; avoid adverse environmental impacts to air or water quality, wetlands, and endangered species; and address the disproportionate negative environmental impacts of transportation on disadvantaged communities.

The funding agency also seeks to award projects that proactively evaluate whether a project will create proportional impacts to all populations in a project area and increase equitable access to project benefits, as well as  projects that address environmental justice, particularly for communities that have experienced decades of underinvestment and are most impacted by climate change, pollution, and environmental hazards.

The funding agency also seeks to support the creation of good-paying jobs with the free and fair choice to join a union and the incorporation of strong labor standards and training and placement programs, especially registered apprenticeships, in project planning stages.

Priority may be given to strategic seaports in support of national security requirements.

Last Updated: February 21, 2025

Eligibility Notes:

Eligible applicants are:

  • States or political subdivisions of a state or a local government
  • Public agencies or publicly chartered authorities established by one or more states
  • Special-purpose districts with a transportation function
  • Indian tribes or consortia of tribes
  • Multistate or multijurisdictional groups of entities

A lead entity described above may apply jointly with a private entity or a group of private entities. Such entities may include owners or operators of facilities or collections of facilities at a port.

Applicants must demonstrate that they have the authority to plan, construct, own, operate, and maintain the project. In the case of joint applications, at least one of the eligible applicants must demonstrate this authority.

Each applicant may submit no more than one application; however, an application may describe a project that contains more than one component and may describe components that may be carried out by parties other than the applicant. All project components that are presented together in a single application must demonstrate a relationship or connection among them.

It is expected that the lead applicant submitting the application will administer and deliver the project. If the lead applicant intends to act as a pass-through entity for disbursing funds to a subrecipient, including a private-entity joint applicant, if applicable, that will deliver all or a portion of the project, that intention should be made clear in the application.

The following entities are ineligible:

  • Federal agencies
  • Entities that utilize or provide, in part or in whole, the national transportation logistics public information platform, commonly referred to as LOGINK, provided by the People’s Republic of China, as well as other similar entities described on page 11 of the NOFA file
Eligible Applicants:
Local Government
Consortia
Native American Tribe
Private Sector
State Government
Application Notes:

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on April 30, 2025.

An amended solicitation is expected to be published for this program, at which time the application deadline will be extended by the number of days between the initial solicitation and the amendment. Refer to the ExpectedAmendment file for details.

Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov. Hard-copy, faxed, or emailed applications will not be accepted.

Applications must include:

  • SF 424
  • Cover page
  • Project narrative
  • SF 424C (optional, but encouraged)
  • Benefit/cost analysis (BCA) calculations
  • Supporting documents, such as maps, memoranda of understanding, letters of support, and engineering drawings

The project narrative may not exceed 30 pages, excluding cover pages and the table of contents. The project narrative must be single-spaced with one-inch margins and must use a standard 12-point font, such as Times New Roman, and the narrative text must be in one column only. Documents must be submitted in .pdf format, unless otherwise specified, and must include descriptive file names. BCA calculations must be submitted in an unlocked Excel spreadsheet.

The following are required in order to submit an application:

  • Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
  • SAM (System for Award Management) registration

Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam.

Applications will be evaluated according to the following merit criteria:

  • Achieving safety, efficiency, or reliability improvements
  • Supporting economic vitality
  • Leveraging federal funding
  • Port resilience

Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.

Match Required: Yes
Match Type: Unspecified
Actual Funds: $450,000,000 (Estimated)
Match Notes:

In general, applicants must provide at least 20 percent of the total project costs via nonfederal sources, which may include state funds originating from programs funded by state revenue, local funds originating from state or local revenue-funded programs, or private funds. The matching requirement may be decreased for projects in rural areas or small projects at small ports.

The leveraging of federal funding will be taken into consideration during the application evaluation process.

Matching contributions may not include previously incurred costs or previously expended or encumbered funds, except for small projects at small ports, which may include certain costs incurred after application submission but before announcement of project selection.

Unless otherwise authorized by statute, funds used to satisfy the nonfederal cost share requirements of a different federal program may not be counted as the nonfederal share for both this program and another federal program.

Pre-award costs may not be used as matching contributions, unless approved in writing by the funding agency.

Funding Notes:

Approximately $450 million is anticipated to be available to support awards through this program. The funding agency intends to retain up to 2 percent of this funding for award administration and oversight.

No more than 25 percent of the available funds may be used to fund projects in any one state, and 25 percent of the available funds is reserved for small projects at small ports. Of the reserved amount, no more than 10 percent of funding reserved for small projects at small ports, and no more than 10 percent of funding available to large projects, will be provided for planning projects. Additionally, the amount of funding that will be provided for any single award to a small project at a small port is limited to $11.25 million.

There is no minimum award size, and except as limited by the amount of available funding and statutory restrictions on funding, there is no maximum award size.

Funds will be provided on a reimbursement basis.

Award selections are anticipated to be announced by November 14, 2025.

The funding agency seeks to obligate funds by September 30, 2029, and also expects award recipients to expend funds within five years of obligation.

For projects that involve dredging, applicants must confirm that the dredging is not for channel improvements or harbor deepening that are part of a federally maintained navigation channel.

Funds may not be used for:

  • Pre-award costs, unless approved in writing by the funding agency
  • Construction, reconstruction, reconditioning, or purchase of a vessel, unless the funding agency determines such vessel is necessary for a project
  • Any project within a small shipyard
  • Improvements to federally owned facilities, unless they are projects investing in port facilities located on tribal land and for which title or maintenance responsibility is vested in the federal government
  • Purchase or installation of fully automated cargo handling equipment or the installation of terminal infrastructure that is designed for fully automated cargo handling equipment, if the funding agency determines that such equipment would result in a net loss of good jobs or reduction in the quality of jobs within the port or port terminal
  • Support or opposition to union organizing

For FY 2024, nearly $580 million was distributed via 31 awards through this program. For FY 2023, more than $653 million was distributed via 41 awards. For FY 2022, more than $703 million was distributed via 41 awards ranging from $353,500 to $68.7 million. Refer to the Award file for details.

Contacts:

Aubrey Parsons
(202) 366-8047
PIDPgrants@dot.gov

Agency Address
U.S. Department of Transportation
Maritime Administration
Office of Port Infrastructure Development
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20590

Contact Notes:

Questions should be directed to Aubrey Parsons.

Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov.

The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.

Files:
Guide File: US15501_Guide_FY2025.pdf (730.0 Kb)
Award File: US15501_Award_FY2025.pdf (1.8 Mb)
Other Pre-Award File: US15501_Cancellation_FY2025.pdf (77.3 Kb)
NOFA File: US15501_NOFA_FY2025.pdf (703.7 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US15501_FAQ_FY2025.pdf (191.7 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US15501_ExpectedAmendment_FY2025.pdf (111.0 Kb)
File Notes:

The NOFA file contains the full solicitation for this program. The Guide file contains detailed application instructions. The Cancellation file contains a notice regarding the temporary removal of the solicitation for this program from Grants.gov. The FAQ file contains a list of answers to frequently asked questions regarding this program. The ExpectedAmendment file contains information regarding an amended solicitation that is expected to be published for this program. The Award file contains information on previous award recipients.

February 21, 2025
Information regarding an amended solicitation that is expected to be published for this program has been released and attached as the ExpectedAmendment file. The Application section has been updated accordingly.

February 18, 2025
A list of answers to frequently asked questions regarding this program has been released and attached as the FAQ file.

February 3, 2025
This program has been reposted on Grants.gov, and the current solicitation has been attached as the NOFA file. All relevant sections have been updated accordingly.

January 30, 2025
A notice regarding the removal of the solicitation for this program from Grants.gov has been released and attached as the Cancellation file. All relevant sections have been updated accordingly.

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Applicant: Matagorda County Navigation District #1 dba Port of Palacios
Summary:

The purpose of this program is to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to ports. The Port of Palacios requested and received $9.6 million to rehabilitate two turning basins, including the installation of 20 vessel-to-shore power stations with multiple outlets. The rehabilitation will include a design standard upgrade that will make the facilities more resilient to the effects of sea level rise, natural disasters, and inclement weather. The applicant will provide $2.4 million to match the remainder of the project costs.

 
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