Nine general contractors showed up to bid DASNY's renovation of the nursing cores in Buildings 58 and 60 at Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, and the field spread out fast. Andron Construction Corp. came in apparent low at $24,007,000. Vernon Construction & Development was next at $27,424,000 — a $3.4 million gap, or roughly 14% off the low bid. Butler Construction Group followed close behind Vernon at $27,494,421.
The project includes renovating the nursing cores of both buildings along with associated asbestos abatement — a combination that tends to widen bid spreads on its own, since abatement scope and unknowns behind decades-old psychiatric-facility walls get priced very differently by different estimators. Nine bidders is a healthy field for a public institutional job this size, and it shows real appetite in the market for state renovation work even with abatement attached.
The spread across all nine bids stretches from Andron's $24 million low to Medco LLC's $39 million high — a 14.2% spread from top to bottom of the field, but the real story is how decisively Andron separated itself from the pack. A gap that size on the low end usually means either Andron found efficiencies nobody else priced, or the rest of the field padded hard for asbestos and building-core unknowns. Either way, Andron is now the number DASNY has to explain if it goes with anyone else.
DASNY's results page lists these bids as subject to change, with no award announced. For contractors chasing OMH and other state institutional renovation work, Andron's aggressive number on abatement-heavy renovation scope is worth watching — and the tight cluster between Vernon and Butler in the second and third slots shows where the real competitive floor sits if Andron's bid gets bounced on a technicality.
GCs and abatement subs working the DASNY pipeline should watch the project's results page for the award determination, and note that a 9-bidder field on OMH renovation work signals the state institutional market still has real depth for firms who can carry asbestos scope alongside general construction.