Look at the bid-results table across both of the last two pulls and one thing hasn't moved: New Jersey owns it. New Jersey Department of Transportation alone accounts for 101 of the 1,000 tabulated results The RFI Wire is tracking — one out of every ten completed bids in the whole dataset. Add NJ Treasury's Division of Property Management & Construction at 72 more, and two New Jersey agencies together account for 173 results, more than the next dozen agencies on the list combined.

That's not a fluke of one snapshot — it held exactly steady between yesterday's pull and today's. NJDOT at 101, DPMC at 72, both cycles, both counts unchanged. When a number doesn't move at all across a full day, that's not noise, that's the shape of the dataset: New Jersey runs a high-volume, well-documented bidding process, and it shows up in a national sample the way almost nothing else does.

“Two New Jersey agencies together account for 173 results — more than the next dozen agencies on the list combined.”

On the New York side, the next tier down is School Construction Authority at 50 results and MTA New York City Transit at 24 — both real, both steady, but neither close to touching what one state DOT and one state property agency post between them. CUNY comes in at 23. NYSDOT itself sits at 24. None of it adds up to what New Jersey alone contributes.

Across the whole sample, the averages tell you what a "normal" public bid looks like right now: 9 bidders show up on average, the spread between low and second bid runs about 17.3%, and the low bid typically comes in 4.3% under the engineer's own estimate. Those three numbers didn't move between cycles either — which means they're not describing one unusual week, they're describing the market's steady state.

For a contractor deciding where to put estimating hours, this is a plain signal: if you're licensed to work across state lines, New Jersey's DOT and DPMC pipelines are posting and awarding work at a volume and pace that dwarfs most single New York agencies. And if you're bidding New York work specifically, know your baseline — 9 competitors, a 17-point spread, and a bid that lands a shade under 5% below the engineer's number is what "normal" looks like. Anything wildly outside that band on your next tab is the thing worth a second look.