New York City just handed a five-year contract to install and run curbside electric vehicle chargers to a company called It's Electric, and if you do sitework, sidewalk, or electrical work in the five boroughs, this is the kind of contract that turns into hundreds of small jobs.

Here's the model: It's Electric mounts chargers on existing utility poles and building facades instead of pouring new pad-mounted stations, which is the whole point — it's cheaper and faster to permit than a standalone charging island. The city's Department of Transportation picked the company to expand curbside charging citywide, building on a pilot that's already running in a handful of neighborhoods.

For contractors, the real work is downstream of the headline. Pole-mounted chargers still need trenching or conduit runs back to a power source, electrical tie-ins, sidewalk restoration where conduit crosses a curb cut, and DOT permits for anything that touches the street. A citywide build-out means a rolling stream of small electrical and sitework packages, block by block, borough by borough — not one big general contract you bid once.

None of this shows up as an SCA-style formal solicitation with a bid date attached, because it's being run through DOT's existing franchise and vendor structure rather than a traditional public bid. That's worth knowing on its own: some of the most durable pipeline in this city right now runs through franchise agreements and vendor programs, not bid tabs — and it still needs subs.

So what to do: if you're an electrical contractor or a sidewalk/sitework outfit with DOT permit experience, this is a company to get in front of now, before the buildout picks up pace. Watch DOT's curbside charging program page and this vendor's own subcontractor outreach — that's where the actual scopes will surface, not the City Record.