Six small-to-mid jobs across the state all hit their bid deadline on October 28, and together they're a decent cross-section of what a mid-size shop can actually chase right now — a roof, a boiler stack, a bridge deck, a basement CT suite, and two versions of the same bridge-panel job eighty miles from Buffalo.
Start with the roof. MTA - NYC Transit has a roof replacement open at its Bathgate Facility in the Bronx (RFI-002935), posted through the NY State Contract Reporter. No value estimate is listed and the agency field for trade is simply Roofing — this is a self-contained package, not a sub-line in a bigger GC job, which makes it a clean bid for a roofing contractor working alone rather than under a prime.
Up in Rome, the VA has a boiler stack replacement at the Rome CBOC (RFI-003408, NAICS 238220), set aside as a Small Business Set-Aside — Total. That set-aside matters: this one is closed to anyone without small-business status, so if you don't have that designation, don't spend the hours pricing it. SAM.gov carries the listing.
The Niagara Falls bridge panel job shows up twice in this batch, and that's worth flagging on its own. RFI-002997, posted by the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation, carries a value range of $566,958.20 to $767,061.50 for Mabey bridge panel replacement at Niagara Falls State Park. RFI-003389 is a separate listing for the same Mabey Bridge Panels Replacement project, tagged as a subcontracting opportunity — meaning a prime is out looking for structural/steel subs under that same scope. If you're a steel sub near Niagara Falls, both listings are worth a look: one's the prime contract, the other's your way in underneath it.
Syracuse has two related listings too. RFI-002390 is the prime contract for University Hospital CT Replacement Renovations at SUNY Upstate, 750 E Adams St — general construction, posted by SUNY through the Contract Reporter. RFI-003108 is a parallel subcontracting notice for the same basement CT suite work ("SUNY UMU #1175"), meaning the prime on that job is actively soliciting subs right now, not after award. Anyone doing hospital fit-out or imaging-suite buildout work in Central New York should treat these as one opportunity with two doors in.
All six bids close October 28 — if you're reading this on the day, they're closing today, so the move is to check the portal status before you spend another hour on a takeoff. The Niagara and Syracuse pairs are the real find here: a sub-seeking notice running alongside its own prime contract is the kind of thing that's easy to miss if you're only watching one portal, and it's exactly the gap this board is built to catch.