HPD
Every open HPD bid, who is winning what, and how to get in the door — one pageNew York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is a housing agency, funder and development partner. It builds and controls affordable-housing rehabilitation and new construction, often through developers and nonprofit partners. If your trade is on that list, this page is its scoreboard: what is open now, what just got awarded and for how much, and what it takes to bid.
HPD orders about 25,000 emergency repair jobs a year in apartment buildings whose owners left dangerous conditions unfixed: no heat or hot water, lead paint, buildings the Buildings Department has declared an emergency. Jobs up to $100,000 never reach a public bid board. They go only to contractors on one of HPD’s three pre-qualified lists, and demolition jobs can run higher. For each job HPD picks at least eight list firms at random and the lowest good bid wins.
The three lists
Emergency Repair (housing repair trades), Demolition (needs $1,000,000 in bonding capacity) and Tenant Interim Lease and Alternative Enforcement, which is open only to City-certified M/WBEs or firms teamed with one. One application covers all three.
What it takes
PASSPort and SAM.gov registration, a year in business, three New York City references from the past 12 months, current financials, the licenses for your trade (EPA lead-safe certification for most repair work), $1,000,000/$2,000,000 general liability naming the City, and a workers’ comp experience rating of 1.20 or less.
The full guide to HPD’s lists: the requirements, the review, and what the work is like
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Always confirm dates on the agency's own posting before pricing a job — dates move, and addenda are what move them. Full board: The RFP Wire.
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Results as read at public bid openings; the apparent low bidder is not the awardee until the agency makes an award.
Get registered first
PASSPort for direct contracts; developer or lender qualification for program work. A missing registration is the most common reason an otherwise good bid is thrown out as non-responsive, and it is the part that takes weeks rather than days — start it before the job you want is posted, not after.
The trades this owner actually buys
Housing general contractors; masonry; roofing; HVAC; plumbing; electrical; interiors; energy upgrades.
Read the notice, never assume the goals
M/WBE, DBE and SDVOB participation goals are set contract by contract and depend on the funding source behind the job. They are printed on each solicitation notice. Read the notice every time — a standard number does not exist.
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