Cornell University posted the second phase of a roof replacement at its Veterinary Medical Center on Campus Road in Ithaca, with bids due October 22. The ad, filed under CRN 2139350, runs through Cornell's Facilities Contracts division and covers rehabilitation and new-construction work classified as building construction.
There's no engineer's estimate or scope narrative in the posting itself — just the project name, the phase number, and the address: 930 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY 14853. A Phase 2 designation means Phase 1 already happened somewhere on that roof, which is worth asking Cornell's Facilities office about directly before you price this one; knowing what got done in Phase 1 tells you what's left to cover in Phase 2.
“A Phase 2 designation is a question, not an answer: what happened in Phase 1, and how much roof is actually left?”
Cornell runs its own bid process outside the state's central contracting system in a lot of cases, so treat the NYSCR ad as the notice, not the full package — pull the actual bid documents from Cornell Facilities Contracts before you commit estimating hours.
For a roofer or GC working the Ithaca-Cortland corridor, this is a known, recurring client with a hard October 22 deadline. Worth a call to Facilities Contracts this week to get on the plan-holder list and find out what Phase 1 covered.