Here's a project that got built entirely on paper. NYC DOT's Division of Bridges put together 1,265 pages of it — two bid-book volumes, a bid-forms packet, a minimum-qualifications questionnaire, plus a separate 163-line pay-item schedule — spelling out the rehab of eight bridges across the Bronx. Then the agency canceled it.
Solicitation 84125B0010, Contract HBCR22A, carried an estimated procurement value of $21,958,783. NYC DOT's PASSPort record now lists it as canceled and not open for bids. The record doesn't confirm whether it ever reached a bid opening before that call, and there's no published notice explaining why. If you were tracking this one, stop watching this solicitation number — watch for whatever DOT re-advertises it as.
“Eight bridges still need the work the bid book described — NYC DOT just isn't ready to pay for it yet.”
The eight bridges: East Tremont Avenue over the Hutchinson River Parkway, Fieldston Road over the Henry Hudson Parkway, Mosholu Parkway over Webster Avenue, Walton Avenue and East 168th and East 173rd Streets over Metro-North's Hudson and Harlem lines, West 231st Street over the now-abandoned Conrail/Putnam line, and Eastchester Road over NYCTA's Dyre Avenue subway line. Three cross active Metro-North track, one crosses the abandoned Putnam line under Metro-North's requirements anyway, and one crosses an active subway line.
The pay schedule backs it up with real quantities: 17,576 pounds of structural steel replacement, 7,914 pounds of removal, 17 new expansion bearings, 8 bearing restorations, a new armorless joint system running 1,097 linear feet, and 7,387 square yards of cold milling — just over a mile of roadway ground down. Six of the eight bridges were getting full paint containment and hazardous-waste disposal.
The risk-transfer terms are worth knowing even with the job dead for now. Liquidated damages ran $11,000 a day past substantial completion, plus supplemental LDs of $2,200 a day for uncured field-office deficiencies, $2,000 a day for Worker Protection Plan lapses, and another $2,000 for environmental violations — trip all four and you're bleeding $17,200 a day. Because four bridges fall under Metro-North's requirements and one crosses an active NYCTA line, the contract also required Railroad Protective Liability Insurance covering the contractor and the city's outside inspectors. Subcontracting was capped at 49%.
No PLA applied — open shop, full stop. But the qualifications bar wasn't low: a prime needed at least two completed bridge jobs over active highways and one over active railroads, each $5 million-plus and finished within seven years, plus two project managers with matching experience. M/WBE goal was 30%, with a separate 30% Community Hiring Goal for city-resident labor hours.
Nothing in the record says why DOT killed it. What's confirmed: eight Bronx bridges still need the work this bid book described. If you do bridge maintenance and rehab work in this city, this one's worth bookmarking — not to bid, not yet, but to watch for the day it resurfaces under a new number.