NYC Transit is taking bids until October 29 on a contract to overhaul drainage and flood resilience at its Westchester train facility in the Bronx, with a published estimate above $100 million — one of the largest single jobs on the agency's current docket, according to the MTA's own posting (RFI-001636, Contract C40001).
The job, formally the Westchester Train Facility Integrated Drainage and Flood Resilience Project, falls under NYC Transit's sitework and drainage trade category. Flood resilience work at rail yards has become a recurring line item for the MTA since Hurricane Ida flooded tunnels and yards across the system in 2021 — contracts like this one are typically where that lesson shows up years later, in pump capacity, grading, and drainage redesign rather than in a press conference.
The contract's size puts it in the same tier as the MTA's two design-build procurements also closing in the next two weeks: a Bridges & Tunnels bypass project (RFI-000049, due November 2) and a station state-of-good-repair package (RFI-002007, due November 3), both also estimated above $100 million. Three nine-figure MTA solicitations closing within six days of each other is a heavier-than-usual stretch even for an agency that runs a multibillion-dollar annual capital program.
No bid results have been posted for any of the three. Given the size of each contract, expect a staged process — qualification or technical review before price — rather than a same-day low-bidder announcement.