Pride Transportation Services Inc

City-funded organization

Pride Transportation Services Inc. is a Brooklyn (East New York)-based school bus company that is part of the First Student family of school-transportation operators; it filed a WARN Act notice for a mass layoff at its Brooklyn facility in late 2025. It was awarded $540.2 million in Department of Education school bus contracts since 2008 (all now expired, $868.8M paid to date per Checkbook records), with 100% of contract value ($540.2M across 10 contracts) won without a fresh bid; its chairman is John M. Cronin.

Industry (per city contracts)
Standardized Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $540,209,903 awarded since 2008
Paid to date
$900,541,488
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $540,184,903 · 10 contracts
Based in
Bklyn, NY
Chairman / CEO
John M Cronin

Holds contracts at

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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