Eleven contractors bid the reconstruction of East 177th Street, Tremont Avenue and Devoe Avenue in the Bronx, and the top two finished $15,323 apart on a job worth nearly $45 million. Difazio Industries, Inc. came in low at $44,869,485.75 when bids opened February 24, 2025, with Restani Construction Corp. right behind at $44,884,808.73. The New York City Department of Design and Construction has not yet confirmed an award.
That's a spread of basically zero — 0.0% by the numbers, the tightest finish on the board this week. When two estimators separated by $15,000 on a $44.9 million street reconstruction job, it means both of them read the same drawings, the same quantities, and the same risk the same way. That's not luck. That's two firms who've built enough Bronx roadwork to know exactly what this one costs.
The rest of the field didn't track nearly as close. JRCRUZ Corp came in third at $48,149,192, already more than $3 million off the low, and the numbers kept climbing from there — J.Pizzirusso Landscaping Corp dba JPL Industries, Halcyon Construction Corp., Inter Contracting Corp., MFM Contracting Corp. and CAC Industries, Inc. all landed between $48.7 million and $53.7 million. The high bid, from J. D'Annunzio & Sons Inc. at $65,127,000, ran 45.1% above the low — $20.3 million more, or 1.45 times what Difazio bid. On a street reconstruction job, that kind of gap usually comes down to how a contractor prices utility coordination and traffic maintenance, two line items that can swing wildly depending on who you ask.
The job itself is a reconstruction of three roadways in the Bronx — East 177th Street, Tremont Avenue and Devoe Avenue — the kind of multi-street contract where quantities (paving tonnage, curb linear footage, sidewalk square yardage) drive the number far more than any single design choice.
**What to do next:** If you're chasing DDC street work in the Bronx, this tab is your benchmark — a two-firm dead heat at just under $45 million tells you where the real competitive line sits on a job this size. Watch NYC PASSPort for the award confirmation on solicitation 85025B0005, and if you bid above the $48 million mark here, it's worth pulling your own unit pricing against Difazio's and Restani's numbers before your next DDC street job goes out.