NYC MWBE RFP & Government Contract Opportunities | November 2026 • Week 1 | The Late Prime Goes Mainstream: Southtowns Gets a Fourth Prime, Queens College Finally Gets a Door & the Reserved Lane Posts Seven | 350+ Active Bids Across NYC, NYS & Federal

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Issue #47 named a strategy: the late prime. A contractor opens an MWBE door on a job another prime already holds. Back then it was one firm, Luck Brothers, doing it twice in one day.

This week it was everywhere. At least six new doors in the Contract Reporter came from primes joining jobs where another prime had already posted:

For certified subs, the math keeps changing in your favor. One estimate can now go to two, three or four teams on the same job.

Issue #49 reported one reserved buy. This week the MWBE or SDVOB Discretionary lane posted seven, the biggest batch since we started counting in Issue #46: warehouse staffing, workforce training, a software reseller contract, risk-management software, pest control in Hudson River Park, weapons-detection systems and interior design. None is construction. And DASNY posted a Medgar Evers College bid in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, limited to small and minority business concerns.

On NYC PASSPort: DHS medical services at two shelters, DCAS citywide moving services, DSS Community Guardian training and DEP construction management.

On the federal side, the lane is back, barely: two open Total Small Business set-asides, including Walter Reed's hospital communications contract with a new due date.

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The window for reactive firms closes. The window for positioned firms opens.

🩺 07126P0007 & 07126P0008 — Medical Services at the PATH Intake Clinic and the Atlantic Assessment Men's Shelter — DHS

EPINs: 07126P0007 / 07126P0008 | Agency: Department of Homeless Services | Release Date: 10/27/2026 | Due Date: November 24, 2026, 2:00 PM (both) | Category: Medical and Nursing Services | Procurement Method: Competitive Sealed Proposal

🟢 Three-week runway — health care, direct prime DHS released two medical-services RFPs on the same day: one for the PATH family intake clinic, one for the Atlantic Assessment men's shelter. These are direct-prime contracts for medical practices, nurse staffing firms and community health providers with shelter or clinic experience. Same due date, similar scope. If you can staff one, read both.

🚚 85727B0004 — Citywide Moving Services — DCAS

EPIN: 85727B0004 | Agency: DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Services | Program: DCAS – Citywide Procurement | Release Date: 10/28/2026 | Due Date: November 19, 2026, 2:00 PM | Category: Ground Transportation Services | Procurement Method: Competitive Sealed Bid

🟢 Two-week runway — a contract a moving company can win DCAS is bidding citywide moving services for city agencies. It's a competitive sealed bid, so the lowest responsive, responsible bidder wins. Certified moving and logistics companies with trucks, crews and insurance should price it. Citywide requirements contracts like this one can keep a small firm busy for years.

🎓 06927P0001 — APS Community Guardian Program (CGP) Training Services — DSS

EPIN: 06927P0001 | Agency: Department of Social Services | Program: (0756) Adult Protective Services | Release Date: 10/30/2026 | Due Date: December 11, 2026, 2:00 PM | Category: Education and Training Services | Procurement Method: Competitive Sealed Proposal

🟢 Five-week runway — training and professional development Issue #47 covered DSS's Community Guardian Services RFP (06926P0015, due November 20). Now DSS wants a firm to train the program. That's a training contract for curriculum developers, social-work educators and human-services consultants. Firms that can't run a guardianship program can still win the work of training the staff who do.

🏗 82627P0005 — BEDC-CAT-523-CM — DEP

EPIN: 82627P0005 | Agency: Department of Environmental Protection | Program: Engineering, Design and Construction | Release Date: 11/2/2026 | Due Date: December 10, 2026, 4:00 PM | Category: Civil Engineering | Procurement Method: Competitive Sealed Proposal

🟢 Five-week runway — construction management Released this morning. DEP is procuring construction management services under its engineering, design and construction bureau. CM contracts reward firms with inspectors, schedulers and cost estimators on staff. Certified CM and engineering firms should prime or team with a larger CM.

🔎 Five RFIs: The Earliest Door in Public Procurement

Also on PASSPort this week:

MWBE/SDVOB-designated contracts flagged first.

🔵 MWBE OR SDVOB DISCRETIONARY ($150,000–$1,500,000) — Seven Reserved Buys, and None Is Construction

Issue Dates: 10/27–10/30/2026 | Platform: NYSCR

🟢 The biggest reserved batch since we started counting, and the widest

By issue: four in #46, zero in #47, four in #48, one in #49, seven in #50. Look at the range: a staffing agency, a training firm, a software reseller, a risk-software vendor, a pest-control company, a security-technology integrator and an interior designer each have a door reserved for certified firms. If you hold NYS ESD MWBE or OGS SDVOB certification and you're not in construction, this is your week. NYC SBS certification alone won't get you in.

🔵 SMALL & MINORITY BUSINESS ONLY — DASNY CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn

CR#: 2140380 | Agency: Dormitory Authority of the State of New York | Issue Date: 10/30/2026 | Due Date: December 16, 2026 | Location: Medgar Evers College, 1638 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 | Category: Construction

🟢 A prime contract restricted to small and minority business concerns, in Crown Heights DASNY's AB1 Domestic Hot Water System Upgrade and Asbestos Abatement is limited, per its title, to "Small Business Concerns and Minority Business Concerns only." The certified firm is the prime, not the sub. Plumbing, mechanical and abatement contractors in Brooklyn: pull the bid documents, confirm which certifications qualify, and line up bonding. Six weeks of runway. It's the second restricted DASNY CUNY bid in three issues, after York College (CR# 2139752, MWBE only, due November 19).

🔵 THE LATE PRIME GOES MAINSTREAM — Six Jobs, Six Late Doors

Category: Construction Horizontal & Vertical

🔴 This week's editorial thread

Three things stand out. Southtowns brings back the four-prime count, but slowly: Thalle arrived weeks after the first three. Maloy is now a late prime on Kubricky's job. Those are the two pipeline primes we've tracked longest. Rocon took the Baruch playbook to Queens College: Baruch's boilers drew Rocon as one of four primes. Queens College's Hot Water Storage Tank scope (due November 17) still has no prime door.

Late doors often carry later due dates. On Southtowns and Genesee Road, the newest prime's date runs two to four weeks past the others. Certified subs: if you missed the first prime's deadline, check whether a late prime's door is still open.

🏛 OWNER BID → PRIME DOOR — Three More

Six fires of the signal in two issues. D.A. Collins also posted a Thruway bridge rehab package the same day (Rt. 9W and Glenmont Rd. over I-87, Mariaville Rd. over I-90; CR# 2140452, due Nov 18).

🏥 SPECIALTY WATCH — Two Hospital CT Rooms, One Week

CT-room replacements need shielding, MEP, medical-gas and specialty finishes. PAV-LAK is now running two Stony Brook doors (this and I-DIME from Issue #49). Certified healthcare-construction specialists: these jobs are built for you.

🏙 NYC AGENCY & PRIME WATCH — Brooklyn, Manhattan and Regional Doors

OPWDD's five-year transportation contract covers the Bronx and Manhattan. Certified transportation companies with accessible vehicles should read it. The Port Authority's two drug-testing rebids mean the first round didn't produce awards. Certified testing labs and occupational-health firms get a second shot.

🧠 BEYOND CONSTRUCTION — Health IT, Consulting, Legal and Marketing

The DOH eligibility-system RFP is the largest technology procurement in this export. Primes will need certified subcontractors for testing, training, data migration and staffing, and it has a three-and-a-half-month runway. CUNY's investigations retainer is a door for employment and civil-rights attorneys and investigators.

NYS RFIs this week: Empire AI Consortium, Advanced AI and HPC Computing Infrastructure, up to 5 MW (CR# 2140363, Dec 4); Roswell Park, Enterprise Data Ecosystem (CR# 2140335, Nov 12); NYSERDA, Integrated Energy Data Resource (CR# 2140302, Dec 14); OASAS, RFI 26025 Faith-Based Leadership Training and Community Engagement (CR# 2140459, Dec 15).

🎓 Army Continuing Medical Education (CME) Reaccreditation — Office of the Army Surgeon General — Total Small Business Set-Aside

Notice ID: W81K00-27-Q-A016 | Published: October 30, 2026 | Due Date: November 10, 2026, 10:00 AM CST (11:00 AM EST) | Set-Aside: Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5) | NAICS: 541611, Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services | PSC: Education/Training – Certifications/Accreditations for Educational Institutions | Type: Solicitation | POC: Darlena Rivera, Marc A. Flores

🟡 Eight-day runway — accreditation consulting The Army Surgeon General's Medical Education Directorate oversees continuing medical education for Medical Corps officers. It wants a contractor to advise on compliance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) requirements and help the Army reach a six-year reaccreditation. It fits small firms with CME accreditation, medical-education or higher-ed compliance consulting experience.

🏥 Hospital Communications Support — Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — Total Small Business Set-Aside (Back, With a New Date)

Notice ID: RFQHT001426QE048 | Last Modified: October 28, 2026 | Due Date: November 9, 2026, 3:00 PM EST | Set-Aside: Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5) | NAICS: 541611 | PSC: Support – Professional: Communications | Type: Solicitation | POC: Philip Atwell, Gregory M. Crump

🟡 One-week runway — read the revised documents first Walter Reed's communications and executive-secretariat support contract carried through Issues #46 and #47, then dropped out of our SAM.gov export in #48. It's back with revised documents, a Q&A, and a new due date of November 9. The notice says to review the revisions before submitting. It fits small communications, executive-support and administrative-services firms.

Federal lane note: Two open set-asides, both Total Small Business, both NAICS 541611. That's one new notice (Army) and one revived (Walter Reed). New notices by issue: four in #44, two in #45, one in #46, one in #47, two in #48, zero in #49, one in #50. Still no WOSB, 8(a) or HUBZone. We're not padding the section to hit three or four.

Issue #50 draws from NYC PASSPort, the NY State Contract Reporter, and SAM.gov. Eligibility differs across all three layers:

NYC contracts require active PASSPort registration and NYC M/WBE certification through NYC SBS for MWBE participation goals. Certification must be active, not pending or expired, at the time of submission. This week's DHS, DCAS, DSS and DEP picks are direct-prime opportunities; read each solicitation for its own participation terms.

NYS contracts require NYS MWBE certification through Empire State Development (ESD), which is separate from NYC SBS certification. SDVOB certification is issued by NYS OGS. That covers all seven reserved discretionary buys and every contractor ad in Section 2. DASNY's Medgar Evers bid is restricted to "small business concerns and minority business concerns"; read the bid documents for which certifications qualify.

Federal contracts do not recognize NYC or NYS MWBE certification. Federal set-asides (WOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, Total Small Business) are administered by the SBA. Active SAM.gov registration is mandatory for any federal contract or subcontract pursuit. Both open notices this week are Total Small Business under NAICS 541611, so your size status under that code is what qualifies you.

Firms that pursue contracts before resolving certification gaps often lose months correcting eligibility issues after deadlines have passed.

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