The RFI Wire's bid board carried 406 open solicitations on October 27, down from 418 the prior day — a net drop of 12 postings overnight.
The State University of New York system held steady at 21 open bids, still the single largest agency presence on the board. The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York held at 16. New Jersey's Department of Transportation grew from 12 open postings to 12, unchanged, while the state's Treasury Division of Property Management and Construction moved from 6 to 7.
“The entries with no agency listed dropped from 85 to 75 postings — a bigger single-day swing than any named agency produced.”
The entries with no agency listed — tracked on this board as "Unspecified" — dropped from 85 to 75 postings, a bigger single-day swing than any named agency produced. That category has been the board's largest single bucket for weeks, and its size still exceeds any individual agency's count even after the drop.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs held steady at 11 open postings. NYC Health + Hospitals stayed level at 6. The MTA Construction & Development office showed 7 open postings, unchanged from the prior cycle.
None of the moves tracked here came from a single blowout agency pulling its whole docket at once — the drop is spread across small net changes plus the Unspecified-category decline, which on its own accounts for most of the net change in the total.
What this means for you: If you track the board by agency, don't assume a quiet week for SUNY, DASNY, or the VA means less work — check the Unspecified bucket before concluding any one office slowed down. How we count: These figures come from the public bid postings and agency bid results on The RFI Wire's board and, where filings are cited, NYC Department of Buildings job filings via NYC Open Data. Read them as the market's direction, not an official total.