The Department of Design and Construction awarded its Roof Replacement contract to XBR Inc. for $8,658,000, according to an October 6 posting on City Record Online. The record carries an award, not an opening — there's no bidder count, no second-place number, and no engineer's estimate listed, which means there's no tab to read for a price war or a wide spread here. What's on the record is the outcome: XBR Inc. got the job, for that number, on that date.
DDC runs roof replacement work across a wide range of city-owned buildings — libraries, firehouses, schools — and the agency's own posting doesn't name which building or buildings this particular contract covers beyond the generic project title. That's a real limit on what this record can tell a reader: without a location or building type attached, it's not possible to say who the roof serves or what kind of structure XBR Inc. is now contracted to work on.
What the number does say is scale. An $8.66 million roof contract is a serious piece of work — multiple buildings, a complex single structure, or a roofing package bundled with related trades like masonry parapet repair or drainage work that often rides along with DDC roof jobs. Contractors who do public roofing work in New York should treat this award as a data point on where DDC's roof money is going this fall, even without the underlying scope spelled out.
Subs in roofing, sheet metal, and waterproofing who want the particulars — site address, scope breakdown, M/WBE subcontracting goals — will need to pull the full award record or the original solicitation from City Record Online directly, since this posting doesn't carry that detail. For now, the headline fact stands on its own: XBR Inc. is DDC's roofer on an $8.66 million public contract, and the agency considers this one decided.