NYC MWBE RFP & Government Contract Opportunities | October 2026 • Week 2 | Four Primes, One Parking Lot: Liberty Street Pile-Up, Vernon's Three-Door NYC Day & Baruch Boilers Draws Two Primes, Brooklyn Leads PASSPort | 200+ Active Bids Across NYC, NYS & Federal

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Last issue we named the pattern "same project, two primes." This week it stopped being two.

The Schenectady Metroplex Liberty Street Parking Lot job now has four separate prime contractors recruiting certified subs, all with doors closing tomorrow, October 6:

Four estimators, one parking lot, one deadline. And Liberty Street isn't alone. Four more projects drew two or more prime doors this cycle (GObike Buffalo, Binghamton's Student Affairs Rehearsal Building, SUNY Potsdam Bowman Hall, and the Southtowns wastewater expansion).

Downstate, the story is Vernon Construction & Development, which opened three NYC doors on a single day: two on DASNY's Baruch campus wave and one at Queens Hospital. On Baruch's South Campus Boilers job, Vernon now has company: Rocon Corp. posted its own door the same morning. The Baruch wave we flagged in Issue #45 has started pulling in primes.

On the agency side, four more NYS buys landed in the MWBE or SDVOB Discretionary ($150,000–$1,500,000) lane, and three of the four are IT.

On NYC PASSPort, the strongest picks lean Brooklyn:

On the federal side, the lane narrowed again: one active set-aside in this week's SAM.gov pull, down from two.

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

85026B0110 — ACEDCA215 Brooklyn Children's Museum HVAC Upgrade — DDC

EPIN: 85026B0110 | Agency: Department of Design and Construction (Public Buildings) | Release Date: 10/5/2026 | Due Date: October 19, 2026, 2:00 PM | Location: Brooklyn Children's Museum, Crown Heights, Brooklyn | Category: HVAC Services 🟢 Released today — two-week runway — Brooklyn public building DDC released this competitive sealed bid this morning for an HVAC upgrade at the Brooklyn Children's Museum. It is a single-building mechanical scope inside a city-owned cultural institution. Certified HVAC, sheet metal, controls and electrical firms can either prime it directly or get onto a GC's team. Two weeks is tight. Pull EPIN 85026B0110 now and get to the pre-bid documents early.

🌊 82626B0065 — BEDC CSO-GC-SFS-OH-CP3 Construction of CSO Facilities for Gowanus Canal — DEP

EPIN: 82626B0065 | Agency: Department of Environmental Protection (Engineering, Design and Construction) | Release Date: 10/1/2026 | Due Date: November 17, 2026, 10:00 AM | Location: Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn | Category: General Contractor/Construction Services 🟡 Six-week runway — major Brooklyn infrastructure DEP is bidding general construction of combined sewer overflow facilities for the Gowanus Canal, one of the largest open infrastructure scopes in the borough. Jobs at this scale carry deep subcontracting needs:

Certified subs should be identifying the likely GC bidders now. The firms that get priced into Gowanus teams are the ones that called in October, not November.

🌳 84626B0095 — Q010A-120M Little Bay Park Waterfront Reconstruction — NYC Parks

EPIN: 84626B0095 | Agency: Department of Parks and Recreation (Capital Queens – Construction) | Release Date: 10/1/2026 | Due Date: October 21, 2026, 10:30 AM | Location: Little Bay Park, Queens | Category: Parks and Site Work Construction 🟢 Two-week runway — Queens waterfront site work NYC Parks is soliciting a competitive sealed bid to reconstruct the Little Bay Park waterfront. Waterfront park reconstruction pulls in marine, concrete, landscaping, paving and site-electrical trades. That makes it a strong subcontracting target for certified site-work firms in Queens and Nassau.

🔐 06826B0003 — Installation and Warranty Service of Security Floor, 345 Adams Street — ACS (Second Window)

EPIN: 06826B0003 | Agency: Administration for Children's Services | Release Date: 9/30/2026 | Due Date: October 9, 2026, 5:00 PM | Location: 345 Adams Street, Downtown Brooklyn | Category: Miscellaneous Administrative Services 🔴 Missed it in Issue #45? There's a second window, and it closes Friday Issue #45 flagged this ACS security-floor bid closing October 2. PASSPort now shows that release as "Responses Received," along with a second release of the same EPIN dated 9/30 and due October 9 at 5:00 PM. Confirm in the solicitation documents whether this is a re-bid or a revised scope before you price. Certified security, access-control and low-voltage integrators who missed the first window have one more week.

Also on PASSPort this week:

MWBE/SDVOB-designated contracts flagged first.

🔵 DBE/MBE/WBE/SDVOB DESIGNATED — Liberty Street Parking Lot Improvements — Four Primes, One Deadline

Owner: Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority | All doors due October 6, 2026 | Location: Schenectady, NY | Category: Construction Horizontal 🔴 Closes tomorrow — the multi-prime pattern hits four

Issue #45 counted two primes on this job. A week later, there are four. No other project we've tracked has drawn this many separate MWBE/SDVOB doors at once. For certified paving, striping, drainage and site firms, one estimate can now reach four bid teams. And when four primes are chasing the same goal, the certified sub sets the terms.

🔵 MWBE & SDVOB DESIGNATED — Vernon Construction & Development: Three NYC Doors in One Day

Company: Vernon Construction & Development LLC | Issue Date: 10/5/2026 | Category: Construction Vertical 🟢 Three simultaneous NYC solicitations — two on DASNY's Baruch wave

Vernon has been on our list since the Rockland PC and Namm Building contests. This week it joins the concurrent-solicitation playbook with three NYC doors on one day. The IT Building door appears to correspond to the I&T Building library renovation DASNY posted as CR# 2139319 (due Oct 29). Confirm scope in the ad. Note that the Queens Hospital job is a PLA/union project. Check your labor status before you call.

🔵 CONTRACTOR ADS — CUNY Baruch South Campus Boilers: Rocon Corp. Joins Vernon

CR#: 2139565 | Company: Rocon Corp. | Issue Date: 10/5/2026 | Due Date: November 3, 2026 | Location: Manhattan | Category: Construction Vertical 🟡 Same DASNY scope, two primes, posted the same morning DASNY's South Campus Boilers and Asbestos Abatement bid (CR# 2139223, due Nov 5) now has two primes recruiting on it: Rocon (due Nov 3) and Vernon (due Nov 2). With GPA Environmental already on Newman Hall, Baruch's three DASNY scopes now carry three contractor-side doors. For certified mechanical, boiler, abatement and insulation firms in Manhattan, price the boiler scope to both Rocon and Vernon.

🟢 MWBE/SDVOB DISCRETIONARY LANE — Four Agency Buys, Three of Them IT

Issue Dates: 9/29–10/5/2026 | Platform: NYSCR 🟢 Reserved lane for certified firms — tilting toward technology

All four are posted under the NYSCR ad type for MWBE or SDVOB discretionary purchases between $150,000 and $1.5 million. Last issue's five discretionary buys ran from AV gear to barbering. This week, three of four are software, cybersecurity, or data services. Certified IT resellers, security-tooling partners, and data consultants should be watching this lane every week. OASAS is back in our tracking as well; it was the first agency we flagged for agency-side doubling in Issue #36.

🔵 MWBE/SDVOB OPPORTUNITY — LIRR Power SCADA System Upgrade — Siemens Mobility

CR#: 2139543 | Company: Siemens Mobility Inc | Issue Date: 10/5/2026 | Due Date: October 7, 2026 | Location: Long Island, NY | Category: Transportation, Bus, Rail, Marine & Aviation 🔴 Two-day runway — rail systems specialty Siemens is seeking MWBE and SDVOB firms for the LIRR power SCADA upgrade. Rail SCADA is a narrow specialty: controls integrators, low-voltage electrical, cabling, and rail-qualified field labor. Few certified firms carry that profile, which makes each one more valuable to a global prime.

🔵 DBE/MBE/WBE/SDVOB DESIGNATED — Avenue of the Pines Trail Reroute — James H. Maloy, Inc.

CR#: 2139624 | Company: James H Maloy, Inc | Issue Date: 10/5/2026 | Due Date: October 15, 2026 | Owner: NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation | Category: Construction Horizontal 🟡 Maloy's new door this week: one, not two Issue #45 set the bar: two or more new Maloy doors in Issue #46, and Maloy joins Lanmark as a standing pipeline. This week's export shows one new solicitation, an OPRHP trail reroute, alongside Maloy's still-open Liberty Street, Lowe Road Bridge, and Old Quarry Road doors. The pace is still steady but slower, so the question carries to Issue #47.

🔵 MULTI-PRIME ROUNDUP — Four More Projects With Two or More Doors

🟢 Same scope, multiple estimators, outside the Capital Region

Cold Spring shows up for the second straight week on a project another prime already holds (Calkins Rd in Issue #45, GObike Buffalo now). Northern Tier is back from the Lowville elevator listing in Issue #45. Also worth noting: on two jobs this week the owner's bid ad and a prime's MWBE door appeared within days of each other:

🏗️ NYC AGENCY & PRIME WATCH — MTA, NYCHA & the Verrazzano

Atlantic Terminal is a Brooklyn transit-hub scope with waterproofing, concrete and MEP trades. NYCHA's borough-focused plumbing IDIQ is a recurring-revenue target for certified plumbing contractors with NYCHA experience. Ahern's Verrazzano ad has a two-day runway for steel, welding and bridge-painting subs.

🎖️ Hospital Communications Support — Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — Total Small Business Set-Aside

Notice ID: RFQHT001426QE048 | Published: September 28, 2026 | Due Date: October 28, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT | Set-Aside: Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5) | NAICS: Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services | PSC: Support – Professional: Communications | Type: Solicitation | POC: Philip Atwell, Gregory M. Crump 🟢 New this cycle — three-week runway WRNMMC needs non-personal services to support its Hospital Communications Department and Executive Secretary Program. The contractor supplies personnel, supervision, equipment and materials under a Performance Work Statement, minus government-furnished items. This fits small firms with communications, executive-support, or administrative staffing capacity and active SAM.gov registration. It's a Total Small Business set-aside, so no 8(a), WOSB, or HUBZone designation is required. Small-business size status under the NAICS is the gate.

Federal lane note: This week's SAM.gov export surfaced exactly one active set-aside. Both Issue #45 carryovers (the USDA mail-processing notice and the GSA/SBA WOSB IDIQ) have closed. Zero WOSB, 8(a), or HUBZone notices surfaced this cycle. The lane has thinned from four (Issue #44) to two (Issue #45) to one. We're reporting what's there rather than padding the section.

Issue #46 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.

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. This covers the Liberty Street primes, Vernon, Rocon, Siemens, Maloy, and the DASNY Baruch scopes. The four MWBE/SDVOB Discretionary listings this week make the point clearly: that ad type is reserved for certified firms, and an NYC-only certification will not get you through the door. If you're a certified IT firm, that is where this week's state-side opportunity is.

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. This week's only federal set-aside is Total Small Business, so size status, not a designation, 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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• • Federal lane down to one. Four set-asides in Issue #44, two in #45, one in #46, and no WOSB, 8(a), or HUBZone notices at all. Watch whether Issue #47 breaks the slide or whether the lane closes out the month empty.

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