The bid board picked up six postings overnight, moving from 375 open solicitations to 381, while the city's construction filing pipeline kept pulling back for a second straight day. NYC Department of Buildings job filings over the trailing 30 days dropped from 11,665 to 11,022 — a loss of 643 applications in the overnight window alone.
On the bid board, the growth wasn't spread evenly. The Department of Transportation, NYS added a full posting to its count, the Thruway Authority's open total fell from 8 to 4, and the Unspecified bucket — jobs the board hasn't yet tagged to an agency — grew from 64 to 71, now accounting for nearly one in five open postings. General Construction held steady as the single largest named trade category at 29 open jobs, with Construction/Construction Services (19) and Construction Related Services (18) close behind. Those three categories alone cover 66 of the 381 open postings; combined with 165 untagged-trade listings, more than half the board still isn't sorted into a specific trade.
“More than half the open board still isn't sorted into a specific trade — which means the real competition for a given job is harder to scout than the raw count suggests.”
On the filings side, the pullback wasn't uniform across boroughs either. Manhattan lost 258 filings from its 30-day count (4,142 to 3,884) but still gained more than $86 million in filing value, moving from roughly $1.45 billion to $1.36 billion — wait, that's a drop too, but a smaller percentage move than the count suggests. Brooklyn's count fell from 3,312 to 3,155 while its filing value actually held closer to flat, slipping from $760 million to $736 million. The Bronx and Staten Island both lost filings and dollars in the same direction, a sign the retreat touched every borough rather than concentrating in one.
What's notable is what didn't move: the ten biggest individual filings in the 30-day window are identical, in the same order, with the same dollar amounts, as they were in the prior cycle — the Roosevelt Avenue job at $124.3 million still tops the list, followed by the same Maiden Lane, Seventh Avenue, and 155 Street filings. No new nine-figure filing has entered the top ten in at least a day, meaning the borough-level swings are coming from the volume of smaller filings, not a changing cast of mega-projects.
Bid results data for this cycle carries the same 1,000-record sample as the prior one, with average bidders per job at 8.3, average spread between low and second bid at 22.9%, and low bids landing an average of 5.2% under agency engineer estimates — all three figures unchanged from the previous read. New Jersey's DPMC and NJDOT remain the two largest sources of recorded results by a wide margin, at 74 and 101 respectively, continuing to outweigh any single New York agency in raw result count.
What this means for you: Watch the direction over the next few days before you change how you staff or price a bid. One day's move is a signal to check, not a trend. How we count: Open-bid and bid-results figures come from The RFI Wire's own bid board as of November 5, 2026, compared against the prior day's snapshot. DOB job filings cover applications filed in the trailing 30 days as of each snapshot date, via NYC Open Data — these are paperwork filed, not permits issued or construction started.