Nine hundred and thirty-two bids closed this cycle, and if you strip out the ones that never got tagged to an agency, one name owns the board: the MTA.

Two entities do the damage. MTA Construction & Development closed 71 of them, and NYC Transit — the day-to-day subway and bus side of the house — closed another 115. Add those up and you get 186 decided bids out of the 319 that actually carry a real agency name. That's 58% of every result we can trace back to an owner. Not a slice of the pie — the whole plate.

“That's not a slice of the pie — the whole plate.”

Nobody else is in the same zip code. CUNY closed 55 bids this cycle. NYS Office of Mental Health work running through DASNY closed 27. NYC DEP closed 7. That's it for anyone hitting double digits.

The other 613 results — nearly two-thirds of the 932 total — came through without an agency tag at all. That's a real gap in the record, not a rounding error, and it means the MTA's true share of the whole board could move once those get sorted out. What you can say for certain is that among the results we can actually attribute, nothing else comes close.

Competition stayed healthy across the board. The average bid this cycle pulled 9.6 bidders — a packed room by any measure — and the low number landed 2.9% under the engineer's own estimate, on average. Estimators are still pricing jobs a little rich against what contractors are actually willing to do the work for.

The open pipeline backs this up. Right now there are roughly 18 MTA-family bids open across Construction & Development, NYC Transit, and Bridges & Tunnels — tied with NYCHA for the most of any single owner currently on the board. If you're chasing decided MTA work next quarter, this is where it's coming from.

This comes from The RFI Wire's own tracking of decided bids across the region — not a full registry of every public bid let in New York, but the largest sample we've built, and enough to call a real pattern.

For a shop deciding where to spend estimating hours this week, the math is simple: learn the MTA's bid rhythm, or watch somebody else's crew learn it for you.