Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-2026 Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems (ADCMS)

Background
This notice announces a funding opportunity and requests grant applications for FHWA's Advanced Digital Construction Management System (ADCMS) as provided by Section 13006(a) of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, enacted as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58). Established in Title 23, United States Code (CODE) 503(c)(5). The program is intended to promote, implement, deploy, demonstrate, showcase, support, and document the application of ADCMS, practices, performance, and benefits.

Grant Details
The grant opportunity will result in distribution of up to provides $20 million of Technology and Innovation Deployment Program (TIDP) funds per fiscal year for FY 2022-2026 to accelerate the deployment and implementation of ADCMS. Due to the imposition of the obligation limitation on the Highway Trust Fund, as well as reserving funds necessary for other activities to accelerate the deployment and implementation of ADCMS activities, such as peer exchanges, the development and deployment of best practices, and training, up to $17 million is expected to be available for each fiscal year from 2022 to 2026 for award under the ADCMS Program. The first round of awards will combine FY 2022 and FY 2023 funding, for a total of $34 million. The actual amount available to be awarded under each NOFO will be subject to the availability of funds and applications received. The Government reserves the right to make no awards under this NOFO.

Eligibility Requirements
Entities eligible to apply for an ADCMS Program grant are State DOTs, including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. While State DOTs are the only eligible Applicants to receive funds, they are encouraged to work in partnership with other State DOTs, local governments, Tribes, and private industry in designing their proposed projects. Cost sharing or matching is required for awards under this program. In accordance with Section 11101(c)(3) of BIL, the Federal share of the cost of a project carried out with ADCMS Program funds shall be 80 percent of the total project cost.

Period of Performance
The period of performance for the award is anticipated to be 1 to 4 years from the effective date of the grant award.

Grant Value
This NOFO will result in the distribution of up to $34 million of Federal funds for combined FYs 2022 and 2023 and up to $17 million of Federal funds each for FY 2024, 2025, and 2026. The FHWA anticipates awarding 5 to 10 ADCMS Program grants for each of FY 2022 to FY 2026.