BUILD (the Local and Regional Project Assistance Program under 49 U.S.C. § 6702) is USDOT’s flagship discretionary grant for projects that deliver multiple national outcomes at once, spanning safety, mobility, state of good repair, and innovation, to name a few. For FY 2026, USDOT is offering at least $1.5B, with applications due February 24, 2026 (5:00 PM ET) and selections expected no later than June 28, 2026.
The simplest way to put together a winning BUILD application is to pick a project that naturally touches multiple criteria, and modernizing intersections is one of the best ways to do that. That’s where Miovision comes in! Partner with us to create safer, smarter streets using an FY 2026 BUILD grant.
What are BUILD grants (and where Miovision makes your project easier to score)
From TIGER to RAISE and finally BUILD, this funding opportunity has gone by many names in the past. At the core, these funds are made available to State, local, and regional governments to help improve transportation. This blogpost will focus on the criteria our administration will use to judge submissions and how Miovision can help ‘build’ a better grant proposal.
BUILD grants can fund planning or construction for a wide range of surface transportation projects. Below are the basics of this year’s notice of funding:
BUILD at a glance (what your team needs on Day 1)
Funding: at least $1.5B (FY 2026 IIJA funds)
Deadline: Feb 24, 2026, 5:00 PM ET
Awards: Min $1M rural / $5M urban (capital); max $25M; planning has no minimum.
Cost share: up to 80% Federal; up to 100% only if Rural
Eligible applicants: states, local governments, transit agencies, tribes, port authorities, etc.
FY 2026 BUILD Criteria
Merit criteria you must score well on: safety, quality of family life, mobility & community connectivity, economic competitiveness & opportunity (incl. tourism), state of good repair, partnership & collaboration, innovation.
Why work with Miovision for BUILD
Miovision is most compelling in BUILD grant applications when your project includes intersections, corridors, or networks, and you want to demonstrate, clearly and credibly, how you will improve:
- Safety (especially high-injury networks and multimodal conflict points)
- Mobility & community connectivity (delay, reliability, multimodal progression)
- Economic competitiveness (freight/truck travel time reliability to job centers, ports, industrial areas)
- Innovation (data-driven operations, connected/“smart” intersections)
Miovision’s product family lines up neatly with those outcomes:
- Scout® Plus for portable, camera-based traffic data collection
- Miovision One to remotely manage/monitor signals and generate performance measures plus safety analytics, and to consolidate traffic solution software in a single cloud platform
- Miovision Performance (Traffop) for automated traffic signal performance measures using real-time and historical data
- Safety Studies for video-analytics-driven safety risk insights beyond crash only history
- V2X Solutions to support connected intersection use cases and “smarter, safer mobility”
How to win with Miovision: 6 moves that matter to win FY 2026 BUILD Grants
1) Treat data as the foundation of credibility
Write the application so a reviewer can see: baseline → intervention → measurable outcomes. Miovision helps you show the baseline with portable and/or continuous data.
2) Turn the merit criteria into a scorecard with metrics
For each criterion you claim, attach two to four concrete measures (delay, reliability, conflicts/near-miss risk indicators, multimodal counts, uptime/monitoring improvements, etc.). BUILD is explicitly scored on those criteria.
3) Make “innovation” practical, not sci-fi
Position V2X / cloud operations as implementation-ready and tied to safety/mobility outcomes—don’t lead with buzzwords.
4) Readiness is a feature
Spell out procurement, deployment schedule, and who does what (city/ITS integrator/Miovision). BUILD cares about getting to obligation and delivery on time.
5) Partnership needs “machinery,” not adjectives
MOUs, maintenance roles, data sharing, and operations ownership are what make the partnership criterion real. (Miovision can be the “measurement + operations” backbone; your agency still owns the project.)
6) Make it reviewer-friendly
This program is brutally competitive. In the last round, there were more than $10 billion in applications with only $1.5 billion being awarded. Clear writing + clean exhibits + quantified benefits matter.
Treat BUILD like a repeatable “intersection modernization pipeline”
Your agency can package intersection upgrades as a programmatic, data-driven modernization effort, with Miovision supporting baseline studies and performance.
