The City of Peekskill opens bids on both of its municipal parking garage rehabilitations the same morning — September 9 at 11 a.m. at City Hall. Nelson Avenue and James Street are separate contracts with separate bid numbers, but they were designed by the same engineer, advertised together, and share a single addendum: functionally one concrete-restoration program split across two structures.

The scope is the full restoration menu: concrete deck repairs, structural steel repairs, masonry and facade work, stair and railing repairs, expansion joints and drainage, deck sealer on James Street, fireproofing restoration on Nelson Avenue, and maintenance of traffic throughout — each on a 180-day clock with $500-a-day liquidated damages. James Street is structured as a base bid plus additive alternates, which means the city can size the award to its budget after the opening; bidders should price the alternates as carefully as the base, because that is where the award decision may actually get made.

Participation goals run 30 percent M/WBE and 6 percent service-disabled-veteran on both contracts — real numbers for a small-city job, and a genuine opening for certified concrete and masonry subs looking for prime relationships. The pre-bid meetings in mid-August were not mandatory, so the field is open, and the plan-holder lists already run around thirty firms per garage.

The double-header structure poses one strategic question every estimator should answer before bid day: price them independently, or price the efficiency of winning both? One mobilization, one restoration crew moving between two structures four blocks apart, is a different number than two standalone jobs — and the bidder who prices that efficiency without betting the whole number on winning the pair is the one who takes this morning home.