Conklingville Dam holds back the Great Sacandaga Lake, one of the biggest reservoirs in the state, up in Saratoga County. It's an earthen dam built for flood control on the Sacandaga and Hudson rivers, and right now its foundation and concrete need work. The state just went out to bid on the fix — and it split the job in two.
The solicitation is 47164 (C, E): Foundation Remediation & Concrete Repair, Conklingville Dam, posted by the NYS Office of General Services Design & Construction division. The site is 233 County Route 8 in Hadley, NY. Bids are due September 9, 2026. OGS's own estimate range covers both contracts together: $50.5 million to $61 million (RFI-001572 on our board). Contract C is the heavy civil and concrete scope — the dam work itself. Contract E is electrical.
That's the story here: one bid date, two lanes. A heavy-civil outfit that pours concrete and shores foundations doesn't need an in-house electrical shop to chase this job, and an electrical contractor doesn't need to carry the dam work to get a piece of it. OGS structured it so both trades bid direct instead of forcing a single prime to bundle scope it may not actually specialize in.
Zoom out and OGS Design & Construction is having a busy six weeks. The same division also has 47637-C out for the National Guard's new division headquarters on Heritage Lane in Albany — $110 million to $120 million, due September 23, and carrying a Project Labor Agreement (we covered that PLA separately). Between the two, OGS D&C is running roughly $160 million to $180 million of live, nine-and-ten-figure work at once, and our board currently shows five open OGS solicitations agency-wide. That's a real capital push out of one division, not a one-off.
The posting doesn't list M/WBE participation goals in the record we have for this contract — don't assume a number that isn't stated; check the full bid package before you build a compliance plan around it.
September 9 is under two weeks out. If you're a heavy-civil or concrete outfit that does dam, spillway, or foundation work, or an electrical contractor who can handle a remote industrial site, this is worth pulling the full spec set for now — not after the pre-bid window closes. Two contracts on one dam means two separate scopes of coordination risk between the primes; read Measurement & Payment and the site-access clauses closely before you price it. The official posting is on the New York State Contract Reporter and OGS's own procurement portal — go to the source, not a summary.