Allied Transit Corp.

City-funded organization

Allied Transit Corp. is a Brooklyn-based school bus operator that, together with commonly controlled affiliates Empire Charter Service Inc. and Empire State Bus Company, provides NYC Department of Education pupil transportation (general- and special-education bus and van routes) across the five boroughs. It held $199,998,231 in now-expired, entirely non-competitively awarded (assignment, buy-against, and emergency) DOE contracts dating to 2000, and was named alongside its Empire affiliates among the vendors with the highest route-delay counts in a NYC Comptroller audit of DOE's contracted bus services.

Industry (per city contracts)
Standardized Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $199,998,231 awarded since 2000
Paid to date
$212,961,082
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $199,998,231 · 8 contracts
Chairman / CEO
Valerie Curcio
Common control
Part of the Empire family: 3 commonly-controlled vendors, $401M paid to date

Holds contracts at

Commonly controlled with (a shared business address)

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

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