The bid date on NYCHA's elevator rehabilitation at Marcy Houses has moved to Wednesday, September 3 at 11 a.m., extended from late August by a City Record notice — and for a package this size, every extra week matters to whoever is still assembling a number. The contract covers seventy elevators across twenty-seven residential buildings in Bedford-Stuyvesant: machines, controllers, hoistway components, car enclosures, doors, communication and safety systems, all out and replaced, with testing and commissioning, coordinated against a separate electrical contract.

The scale is the story. Completion time runs 1,721 consecutive calendar days — nearly five years of continuous elevator work on one development — with $800-a-day liquidated damages behind it. Marcy is part of the publicly announced $300 million elevator replacement program the city and state are pushing through public housing, which means the firms that perform here are positioning for the packages behind it.

The mechanics: electronic bids only through NYCHA's iSupplier portal — no paper — with a 5 percent bid bond and full performance and payment bonds. The pre-bid conference and site visit happened in early August and neither was mandatory, so the field is still open to any elevator prime that can bond it. The attendance list NYCHA posted shows a half-dozen elevator firms already in the room.

What to do next: confirm the September 3 date has not moved again before finalizing — this one has moved once already, and a package with this much engineering tends to move like a glacier, in lurches. The job rides on our board with its solicitation number; check the documents in iSupplier for the current addenda count before you seal anything.