The Dormitory Authority is taking bids to remediate PCB contamination in two transformer rooms at the Bronx Psychiatric Center's Medical Surgical Building on Waters Place: cut out the contaminated concrete floor slab and the soil beneath it, backfill clean, and pour a new slab, all under the environmental agency's Record of Decision for the state Superfund site. The official estimate is $1.9 million to $2.1 million.

Note the letting agency, because the bid lists have it wrong: this is DASNY solicitation 381660, contract C1729 — not an OGS job, and it appears on no OGS calendar. Bids are due September 10 at 2 p.m. at DASNY in Albany, and the pre-bid meeting already happened in late August, so a bidder coming in now works from the documents.

The scope reads like a hazmat job wearing a concrete contract's clothes, and that is the qualification story: PCB remediation under a DEC Record of Decision means licensed handling, manifested disposal, air monitoring, and closure documentation — with structural demolition and replacement concrete around live electrical infrastructure in an operating psychiatric hospital. Firms that carry both the environmental credentials and the institutional-work discipline are a short list, which is exactly why the margin on this kind of contract holds.

Participation goals run 18 percent MBE, 12 percent WBE and 6 percent SDVOB. What to do next: pull the documents from DASNY's plan room, confirm the disposal path pricing before bid day, and treat the September 10 Albany deadline as a hard courier date.