The National Guard doesn't usually show up in a bid tab, but Heritage Lane in Albany just did — and it's the second nine-figure OGS job on the board this month with a Project Labor Agreement attached.

New York's Office of General Services has two of the state's biggest open construction jobs sitting side by side on the calendar this week. The first is 47637-C, a single-prime general construction contract to build a new National Guard Division Headquarters at 780 Watervliet Shaker Rd in Albany, priced between $110 million and $120 million, due September 23. The second is 47164 (C, E), foundation remediation and concrete repair at the Conklingville Dam in Hadley — a two-contract package worth $50.5 million to $61 million between the heavy civil work and the electrical scope, due September 17.

Different counties, different missions — one's a military building, the other's a hundred-year-old dam holding back the Sacandaga Reservoir — but both share the same procurement fingerprint: OGS Design & Construction, both single-agency estimate ranges instead of one hard number, and both carrying the kind of scale that only a handful of upstate GCs can bond.

That matters because OGS just put a PLA on the Heritage Lane job — a requirement the trade already flagged when the number first posted — meaning any GC chasing it needs union agreements lined up before they can even price labor. The dam job doesn't carry the same PLA language in what's been published, which means the two jobs draw from different bidder pools even though they're both stamped OGS Design & Construction and both due within a week of each other.

For a heavy-civil or GC contractor working the Capital Region, this is the week to decide which lane you're in. Conklingville closes first, on September 17, and its concrete and electrical split means a heavy-civil prime and an electrical sub could both find work in the same dam without competing against each other. Heritage Lane closes six days later, on September 23, and its PLA requirement means the pursuit decision has to happen now — that's not a form you fill out the week of the bid.

Both jobs sit in the state's estimate-range format rather than a single number, which is OGS's standard practice for its bigger single-prime lettings — worth knowing before you assume the top of the range is the target.