The Department of Design and Construction registered a $1.96 million contract with Inter Laperuta JV to install a tide gate chamber on a 9'6" x 50' structure, according to NYC Comptroller's Checkbook NYC.
The contract, numbered PIN 85026B0082001, runs from October 12, 2026 to October 12, 2027. It was awarded through competitive sealed bidding, the standard low-bid process for city public works, and Checkbook NYC lists it as non-M/WBE.
Tide gates control the flow of water between a sewer outfall and a tidal body — they're a flood-prevention device, and DDC has been steadily registering this kind of harder-to-see drainage infrastructure work across the five boroughs. This one doesn't carry a borough designation in the record, but the project type lines up with the coastal resiliency and sewer-outfall work DDC runs for the Department of Environmental Protection.
Inter Laperuta JV is a joint venture pairing — the kind of structure that lets two firms combine bonding capacity to take on a job neither might bid solo. That's a detail worth watching for other heavy-civil shops sizing up DDC's pipeline: if JV bidders are winning tide gate work, a single-firm bid without that combined capacity may struggle to compete on price or bonding.
The $1.96 million figure is mid-sized for DDC infrastructure work — big enough to matter, small enough that it likely drew a handful of bidders rather than the double-digit field a nine-figure job attracts.