New York City's own back office needs 25,000 square feet of somewhere-to-go, and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services is paying $36.7 million to build it. The job: a full build-out of the 25th floor at 1 Centre Street, the Manhattan Municipal Building, bid due October 22.
Call it a surge site — city agencies displaced by renovation, flood, or other capital work elsewhere need interim office space, and DCAS is converting raw floor into finished space to hold them. $36,659,611 is the agency's own estimated procurement value, which puts this solidly in the mid-size interior fit-out category: real money, but a fraction of the nine-figure infrastructure jobs crowding the rest of this week's board.
What makes it worth a second look is the building itself. 1 Centre Street is 100-plus years old, landmarked, and sits inside one of the most heavily occupied government buildings in the five boroughs — any interior GC bidding this job is working around active agencies on the floors above and below, with all the access, noise, and schedule restrictions that implies. Read the special conditions on work-hour restrictions before you price the schedule; a floor like this rarely runs a normal eight-to-four workday.
If your shop does municipal interior renovation at the $20–50 million scale, this is a bid worth the estimating hours — DCAS tends to be a repeat client for GCs who perform well on surge-site work, since the agency is perpetually shuffling departments through temporary space while it renovates its own portfolio. Bid date is October 22; pull the solicitation and the full scope now.