A fourth subcontractor outreach ad for DASNY's Queensborough Community College RFK Hall gym renovation hit the New York State Contract Reporter this morning, this one from Cube Construction Services LLC, seeking M/WBE and SDVOB subs and suppliers ahead of DASNY's October 14 bid opening.
The project is a gym, locker room, and shower room renovation with associated asbestos abatement at RFK Hall, 221-05 56th Avenue in Bayside, Queens. DASNY's own posted opening is October 14 — Cube's ad, filed October 7 under CRN 2139650, does not give subs a separate quote deadline, unlike the E.W. Howell ad on the same job that closes October 13, one day ahead of the DASNY opening.
“A sub pricing this job is now fielding requests from multiple would-be primes before anyone knows who the actual low bidder will be.”
This is now at least two primes — E.W. Howell and Cube Construction — running parallel outreach on the same CUNY job in the same week, a pattern the desk flagged Monday when the Howell ad's quote deadline skipped past DASNY's own posted date. A sub pricing this job is now fielding requests from multiple would-be primes before anyone knows who the actual low bidder will be.
For subs: the work is gym/locker/shower renovation plus asbestos abatement, M/WBE and SDVOB outreach specifically named. DASNY's bid opening is October 14 — any number handed to a prime now is a number given before scope, addenda, and the field of competing primes are settled.
Full solicitation and DASNY's posted bid schedule are the only sources that matter here; everything else is outreach-ad noise layered on top of one contract.