Mark your calendar for November 18 — that's when the New York City Housing Authority closes bids, at 2:00 p.m., on a flooring contract covering nine developments across Brooklyn neighborhoods BK08 and BK09.

The job is a requirement contract — meaning NYCHA calls on the contractor as needed, rather than a single fixed scope — for installing vinyl composition floor tile in apartments. The developments named are Farragut Houses, Ingersoll Houses, Lafayette, Whitman Houses, Albany I and Albany II, Gowanus Houses, Red Hook East, Red Hook West, and Wyckoff Gardens/Atlantic Terminal. The solicitation number is REQ-20261014034, and NYCHA classifies the trade as Construction Related Services.

No estimated contract value or plan-holders count is listed in the posting. What is clear is the scope: this is tile work spread across nine separate housing developments in the same part of Brooklyn, which is the kind of volume that suits a flooring contractor set up to run multiple crews at once.

Here's the thing worth knowing before you even think about pricing this: NYCHA ran this as Phase III of a citywide vinyl tile installation program, and it held pre-bid conferences specifically to kick off this round of bidding. That means this isn't a one-off job — it's part of an ongoing pipeline of similar tile work NYCHA has been rolling out development by development. And there's a gate to get through first — only contractors already on NYCHA's active tile pre-qualification list are eligible for the award, so if you're not on that list, bidding here won't get you the contract no matter how good your number is.

If your shop does floor tile work and isn't yet on NYCHA's tile pre-qualification list, get on it now, because that's a precondition for winning this one, not an afterthought. If you're already pre-qualified, get your bid in before 2:00 p.m. on November 18, and keep an eye out for future phases of this same tile program — this looks like recurring work, not a single contract.

On the record: Requirement Contract for Installation of V/C Floor Tile in Apartments- Development Name, Located Brooklyn Neighborhood (BK08) and (BK09), Brooklyn., issued by Housing Authority. Solicitation REQ-20261014034. Bids are due November 18, 2026 (Bids close at 2:00 PM.). The posting on a856-cityrecord.nyc.gov: https://a856-cityrecord.nyc.gov/RequestDetail/20261014034. Full record on The RFI Wire's board: https://therfiwire.com/rfi/RFI-005006.html.