The open-bid board grew by three jobs overnight, from 400 to 403, but the headline number hides where the actual movement is. Eighty of those 403 open bids -- roughly one in five -- carry no agency name at all, filed under "Unspecified." That's the single largest bucket on the entire board, bigger than any named agency by a wide margin.
Compare that to the next-largest group: the State University of New York system, with 20 open postings, followed by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York at 16 and the New York State Office of General Services at 11. NYS Parks, DASNY, SUNY and OGS together post a picture of a state capital-construction apparatus running a steady, broad slate of smaller jobs across the state -- nothing one agency dominates.
“A contractor scanning the board by agency or trade filter alone is going to miss a fifth of the postings entirely, because they simply aren't tagged yet.”
Trade coding tells a similar story of incomplete records rather than a quiet market: 280 of the 403 open postings -- about 70% -- carry no trade classification either. Of what is tagged, "Construction/Construction Services" (16), general construction-adjacent NAICS code 236220 (9), and plain "General Construction" (9) are the largest labeled groups, with HVAC, electrical, plumbing and fire alarm work scattered in single digits each.
None of this means the board is thin on real opportunity -- 403 open postings is a healthy pipeline by any measure, and the mix of small-county work (Greene, Tioga, Essex, Yates counties each showing a job or two) alongside institutional players like SUNY and DASNY suggests a market still running at a steady clip into the fall. What it does mean is that a contractor scanning the board by agency or trade filter alone is going to miss a fifth of the postings entirely, because they simply aren't tagged yet.
The DOB's own filing activity backs up a market still moving: 11,722 job filings across the city in the trailing 30 days, concentrated in Manhattan (4,245 filings, $1.4 billion in filed cost) and Queens (2,425 filings, $1.06 billion), with a single $350 million Queens alteration filing at 31 Avenue doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that borough's total.
What this means for you: Don't rely on the agency or trade filter alone to scan for work -- scroll the full open-bid list by date or keyword too, since a fifth of current postings aren't sorted into either category yet. 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.