The job is located at the Cayuga Lake Inlet, 900 Taber St., in Ithaca. The posting doesn't name a trade or an estimated contract value, and no plan-holder count is listed yet.
This is dredging work, and dredging jobs like this one tend to come with real complications — handling wet material, moving it somewhere, keeping it from washing back in. The state has already said as much in its own planning: the Department of Environmental Conservation flagged that "because of the complexities of this dredging project," additional funding had to be lined up just to administer and contract the first dredging phase. DEC had $5.8 million on hand and said it needed roughly $12 million more to get the most dredging volume out of that first phase. The state also already built a 9.5-acre Southwest Sediment Management Facility specifically to temporarily store and dewater the dredged material pulled from the inlet — so the disposal and dewatering piece of this job already has a home built for it.
For a dredging contractor or marine construction outfit, that backstory matters: it tells you the funding fight for phase one has already happened and the state built supporting infrastructure before bidding this out, which suggests this isn't a first-pass, unfunded concept — it's further along than a typical early-stage dredging bid.
What to do next: get the CR#2140505 bid documents before December 9 and look specifically at how dredged material handling and the sediment facility tie into the scope — that's where the real cost and schedule risk on a job like this usually sits.
On the record: 46108C: Cayuga Inlet Flood Risk Reduction & Restoration, issued by General Services, NYS Office of. Solicitation CR#2140505. Bids are due December 9, 2026. The listing on NY State Contract Reporter: https://www.nyscr.ny.gov/Ads/Details/2140505. Full record on The RFI Wire's board: https://therfiwire.com/rfi/RFI-005129.html.