New Jersey's DOT and Treasury Account for 17.5% of Every Bid Result on the Board

New Jersey's Department of Transportation and its Treasury's Division of Property Management and Construction together account for 175 of the 1,000 most recent bid results on the board — 17.5% of every tabulation The RFI Wire is tracking, more than the next ten agencies combined.

NJDOT alone sits at 101 results. NJ Treasury's DPMC adds another 74. For comparison, NYC's School Construction Authority — the single biggest New York name on the list — shows up 42 times. MTA Construction & Development shows 21. NYSDOT shows 21. No single New York agency comes within half of what NJDOT is running by itself.

“The most active public buyer in the entire regional dataset isn't in New York City or Albany. It's in Trenton.”

The pattern holds on the open-bid side too, where New Jersey DOT currently has 12 solicitations live and NJ Treasury's DPMC has 6 — both outpacing most individual New York state and city agencies on that board, though New York's volume is spread across far more agencies (the open-board list runs to more than 150 named owners, most posting one or two jobs apiece).

Average bidder turnout across the full 1,000-result set sits at 8.3 firms per job, with the low bid landing 22.8% below the second bid on average and 4.7% under the engineer's estimate. None of those averages are being driven by one outlier agency — they're blended across everything from a single-bid village library job to a 101-result state DOT program — but the sheer weight of New Jersey's two biggest buyers means a meaningful share of that average is being set by how NJDOT and DPMC run their lettings, not by how New York agencies run theirs.

For a contractor licensed on both sides of the Hudson, that's not trivia. If you're deciding where to put estimating hours this quarter, the data says the most active, most frequently re-bid public buyer in the entire regional dataset isn't in New York City or Albany. It's in Trenton.

What this means for you: Watch the direction over the next few days before you change how you staff or price a bid. One day's move is a signal to check, not a trend. How we count: These figures come from the public bid postings and agency bid results on The RFI Wire's board and, where filings are cited, NYC Department of Buildings job filings via NYC Open Data. Read them as the market's direction, not an official total.