Fourteen bids came in for the Washington Irving renovation, and DDC's own numbers say the field knows what this job is worth. Apparent low bidder Sharan Builders, Inc. priced it at $9,802,762.81 — just 4.2% above the agency's own engineer's estimate of $9,027,299.29, and about $410,000 ahead of the next closest bid.
That second bid belongs to CDE Air Conditioning Co. at $10,213,624.23, which is notable company to keep: the same firm was just named the winning bidder on a separate DDC cooling tower replacement job this week at $6,449,529. A mechanical-trade contractor chasing a general construction renovation and landing second out of fourteen says something about how DDC's prequalification pool has blurred trade lines on institutional work.
Below that, the pack fans out fast. Sea Breeze General Construction and National Environmental Safety Company Corp. both landed around $10.4–10.6 million, and from there the bids climb steadily through Litehouse Builders, Padilla Construction Services, Fratello Construction, AWL Industries, Neelam Construction, Lanmark Group, NSP Enterprises, KG Construction Services, and Vernon Construction & Development — a full $2.9 million separates third place from last. High bidder D & S Restoration, Inc. came in at $14,095,463.74, roughly 44% above the low.
That spread is the real story here. A tight top of the field — Sharan and CDE within a few hundred thousand dollars of the estimate — tells you the scope on this one reads the same to the firms who've done this kind of renovation before. The long tail below it is the usual story on older-building work: unknowns behind the walls, and estimators who priced the risk very differently.
DDC flags this as preliminary, not an award — bids remain under review and subject to verification. For GCs chasing institutional renovation work in the five boroughs, Sharan Builders is the name to watch here, and the fourteen-bid field is a reminder that DDC's school and civic renovation pipeline still pulls a crowd even at $9–14 million price points.