Companion to NYCHA Has $7.8 Billion and Three Front Doors. This is door one — NYCHA direct — and how you get through it.

iSupplier is the portal. You register on NYCHA's iSupplier to see solicitations, ask questions, get addenda and submit bids. Bids go up as a single PDF. NYCHA doesn't take hard-copy, email or fax bids — so if your estimator's plan is to drive it over, that plan's dead on arrival.

“Apply no fewer than 15 days before the bid date. If you see the ad and then apply, you've already missed it.”

NYC.ID first. Every vendor needs a NYC.gov account (NYC.ID) to get into iSupplier and eComply. Do this one today; it's the key to every other door below.

PASSPort replaced VENDEX. Vendor questionnaires and disclosures go through the City's PASSPort system. Same account you'd use for any City agency — if you've bid DDC or SCA, you've probably got it.

Labor Law 220-i. Since December 30, 2024, the bidder and every sub named in the bid must be registered with NYS DOL and put current registration certificates in with the bid. Not after award — with the bid. A sub without a certificate is a bid problem, not a sub problem.

Skilled Trades Prequalified Lists. NYCHA keeps PQLs for CCTV, lead-based paint services, paint, carpentry, plumbing, electrical, asbestos, janitorial and debris removal, elevator services, V/C floor tile, heating, HVAC and PACT. Getting on one lets you bid that list's solicitations; it guarantees you nothing else. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis — and here's the line that catches people — apply no fewer than 15 days before the bid date you want to be eligible for. Fifteen days. If you see the ad and then apply, you've already missed it.

Micro PQL. Since September 30, 2024, awards up to $10,000 go only to vendors on the Micro Purchase PQL, which means finishing NYCHA's procurement-ethics training and uploading the certificate in iSupplier. Small money, but it's the easiest foot in the door there is.

Where to watch. iSupplier, the City Record and the NYS Contract Reporter all carry NYCHA notices — and the same job often shows up on more than one under a different number. Don't count the same elevator package twice. NYCHA has also started running some packages under a "Pilot RFQ Process" — the City Record notice of July 21, 2026 for a set of standpipe RFQs (524258–525260) is the public description of how it works — and the Marcy Houses elevator package (RFQ 518124) went out non-PLA as an RFQ of the same shape. If you see either label, read the front end before assuming the usual rules.

So: NYC.ID, then iSupplier, then PASSPort, then 220-i for you and your subs, then the PQL for your trade with 15 days to spare. Do it in that order, do it before the ad, and the week the bid drops is just a bid week.