Set a reminder for December 10 — that's bid day for a new Department of Environmental Protection job installing green infrastructure along North and South Conduit in Queens. Bids close at 10:00 AM, and the project goes under the number 82627B0013-BEPA.
The posting lists it simply as construction and construction services work, with no location detail beyond North and South Conduit. There's no dollar figure attached, and no word yet on how many firms have picked up the plans.
This stretch of Queens has seen this kind of work before. An earlier green infrastructure project in the same corridor built a 13,000-square-foot bioretention zone — basically a below-ground system of vegetation, sand, and soil that soaks up rainwater before it can overload the sewers and cause an overflow. That project covered a nine-acre area between Sutter Avenue, North Conduit, 80th Street, and South Conduit, and it started with excavating 900 cubic yards of material to carve out a shallow basin.
If your crew has done excavation and bioretention work before, this is the kind of job worth a close look — it reads like more of the same type of stormwater capture construction DEP has been building out along this same corridor.
Get the bid in by 10:00 AM on December 10, and if the scope matches that earlier Conduit project, expect site work and excavation to be a real part of the job.
On the record: 82627B0013-BEPA: GI-CONS-9: Installation of green infrastructure along North and South Conduit in Queens, issued by Environmental Protection. Solicitation 82627B0013. Bids are due December 10, 2026 (Bids close at 10:00 AM.). The posting on a856-cityrecord.nyc.gov: https://a856-cityrecord.nyc.gov/RequestDetail/20261027028. Full record on The RFI Wire's board: https://therfiwire.com/rfi/RFI-005144.html.