Albany's Heritage Lane is about to get a construction fence the size of a city block. New York's Office of General Services is taking bids through October 21 on a job that dwarfs almost everything else on the state's active docket right now: the new National Guard Division Headquarters at 780 Watervliet Shaker Road, posted with an estimate range of $110 million to $120 million.
That number puts it ahead of every MTA design-build package currently out to bid, and it's a single prime contract — one general contractor holds the whole scope, not a split-trade package. It also runs under a Project Labor Agreement, which means the winning GC signs onto PLA terms for wages, dispatch, and jurisdiction before the first shovel goes in the ground. If you've never bid a PLA job, budget time to read that agreement before you price labor — it changes your subcontractor math on union signatory requirements and local hiring provisions in ways a non-PLA state job doesn't.
OGS runs design and construction for the state's own buildings — armories, office towers, university labs — and a nine-figure division headquarters is a generational bid for the GCs who chase that kind of work. The listing, 47637-C in OGS's own system, is public already; what isn't public yet is who's pulled the plans. Expect the plan-holder list to tell you more about the competitive field than anything else available before bid day.
For an Albany-area GC or a statewide prime with bonding capacity north of $100 million, this is the job to clear calendar for. The bid date is October 21 — fixed-price, single prime, PLA terms attached. Anyone still deciding whether to chase it should pull the OGS solicitation now; a job this size won't sit quietly on the shelf for long once bids open.