The bill would create a three-year pilot program allowing small businesses that provide paid ground transportation to buy vehicles through the General Services Administration’s federal supply schedules. Businesses could buy no more than 50 vehicles per fiscal year and would pay the same cost as eligible public entities. They must use each vehicle for ground transportation for at least two years, unless it becomes unable to operate. Selling a vehicle early would require the business to repay the difference between its open market value and the price paid. After a vehicle is no longer used for transportation, the business must donate at least one out of every five vehicles to a local nonprofit. The bill also requires progress reports and a final review of the program.
If you operate a qualifying small ground transportation business, the program could let you buy vehicles through GSA. The bill covers services such as taxis, shuttles, paratransit, and non-emergency medical transportation. It does not specify how businesses apply or which vehicles would be available.
Participating businesses would pay the vehicle cost charged through the program. The bill does not state the program’s administrative costs. No publicly available information.
Congressional findings in the bill say expanding access to GSA vehicle purchasing could increase efficiency, reduce costs, and support fleet replacement with newer, more environmentally friendly vehicles.
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