The MTA wants a construction manager to oversee two bridge jobs at once: preservation work on the Henry Hudson Bridge and cleaning and concrete repairs on the Dyckman Street Bridge, under a single project management consultant contract estimated between $1 million and $5 million (RFI-003145, due November 20).
Pairing the two makes sense on the map — the Henry Hudson carries traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx over the Harlem River, and Dyckman Street runs underneath it on the Manhattan side. A PMC contract like this one doesn't swing a hammer; it manages the firms that do, tracking schedule, budget and inspection on both structures for whoever the MTA eventually hires to do the physical repair work.
That makes this bid a different animal from the construction packages already moving through the MTA's pipeline this fall — it's a staffing and oversight award, not a trade award, and it typically goes to an engineering or construction-management firm rather than a GC. But it's also the leading indicator: a PMC contract usually means the MTA is getting ready to bid the actual repair and cleaning scopes soon after.
What to do next
Construction management and engineering firms should pull RFI-003145 before the November 20 deadline — the scope covers both the Henry Hudson Bridge preservation work and the Dyckman Street Bridge cleaning and concrete repairs under one consultant contract. GCs and specialty trades (concrete repair, bridge cleaning, coatings) won't bid this one directly, but should watch for the physical construction packages the MTA typically lets once a PMC is in place — that's the one to chase next.