7D van and student transportation bids (also posted as IFBs, RFPs, and solicitations) currently open across Massachusetts. RouteReady checks COMMBUYS, BidNet, and monitored municipal and district procurement pages every day and filters out everything that is not transportation work. See full source coverage.
Special Education Van Transportation Re-Bid
Massachusetts (via BidNet) · due Jul 29, 2026
Van Transportation 2026-2029
Massachusetts (via BidNet) · due Jul 29, 2026
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Start free: get 7D alertsIn Massachusetts, a 7D certificate lets a vehicle carry students for hire, typically vans and small buses used for special-education routes, out-of-district placements, McKinney-Vento transportation, and smaller regular routes that do not need a full-size school bus. Districts post this work under many names: “7D van services,” “student transportation,” “SPED transportation,” “out-of-district transportation,” and more. This page groups all of it in one place, whatever a district happened to call it.
Massachusetts districts and municipalities post transportation work on COMMBUYS (the state procurement portal), BidNet Direct, their own procurement pages, and sometimes only in local notices. The posting itself might be labeled a Bid, an IFB (Invitation for Bid), an RFP (Request for Proposals), or a Solicitation depending on the agency: different names for the same competitive process. No single official site lists everything. RouteReady checks each monitored source daily, classifies what is genuinely transportation work, and links every bid back to its official posting. The official source is always the source of truth. Each bid page shows when we last checked it.
Most transportation contracts have an incumbent, and most districts rebid on a predictable cycle. RouteReady's contract intelligence shows known previous awards, known incumbents, and estimated rebid windows, labeled as estimates, with the evidence and confidence level shown, so you can prepare before a contract returns to bid instead of reacting the week it posts.
Yes. Massachusetts agencies and procurement portals use different labels for the same type of competitive process: Bid, IFB (Invitation for Bid), RFP (Request for Proposals), and Solicitation all describe a district or municipality inviting vendors to compete for a contract. RouteReady tracks all of them in one feed regardless of which label the posting uses.
Yes. This page includes 7D-licensed vans and smaller vehicles (10,000 lbs GVWR or less) as well as standard school bus routes, whenever they're posted as transportation work. Each listing shows the vehicle type.
Always through the official posting, not through RouteReady. Every listing links back to COMMBUYS, BidNet Direct, or the district's own procurement page. That's where addenda, deadlines, and submission instructions live. RouteReady is a monitoring layer, not the bidding system itself.