Four listings, one job. If you've been scrolling the NY State Contract Reporter the last few weeks and noticed "RFK Hall" and "Queensborough" popping up over and over, you're not imagining it — DASNY's gym and locker room renovation at CUNY Queensborough Community College has generated its own small traffic jam of subcontractor solicitations, all feeding into one prime bid opening on October 14.
Here's the rundown. RFI-003209 is the base listing — DASNY-CUNY-Queensborough-RFK Hall-Gym & Locker Room-Renovations — posted as a subcontracting opportunity with primes looking for sub pricing, due October 13 (nyscr.ny.gov/Ads/Details/2139630). RFI-002998 is the fuller scope version of the same job: gym, locker, and shower room renovation with associated asbestos abatement, also due October 13 (nyscr.ny.gov/Ads/Details/2139386). And RFI-003223 is a dedicated M/WBE and SDVOB subcontractor and supplier outreach notice for the identical scope, due October 14 (nyscr.ny.gov/Ads/Details/2139650).
The location, for anyone pricing it cold, is 221-05 56th Avenue in Bayside, Queens — RFK Hall on the Queensborough campus. And the piece that ties it together: DASNY itself opens prime bids on the job October 14. That's the date that matters most. The sub-bid due dates on October 13 exist so primes can fold subcontractor numbers into their own bid package before DASNY's envelope opens the next morning.
If you're a sub chasing this one, don't just price whichever listing you found first — check all three. The asbestos abatement scope in RFI-002998 is the detail that changes who should even be bidding; a mechanical or finishes sub who skips that listing might miss that abatement is bundled into the same contract rather than let separately. And if you qualify as M/WBE or SDVOB, RFI-003223 is the listing built specifically to get you in front of the primes assembling their bid.
Asbestos abatement bundled into a gym renovation isn't unusual for a campus building of this age, but it does mean the GC assembling this bid needs an abatement sub lined up well before October 13, not after. That's worth noting if you're an abatement contractor sitting on the sidelines waiting for a standalone abatement RFP that may never post — this is the one.
Four listings for one job is a pattern worth remembering for every DASNY and SCA campus job going forward: when you see a prime-contract renovation on a public campus, go looking for the sub-outreach notices that ride alongside it. They post separately, they post on their own schedule, and if you only watch the main contract listing, you'll miss the window to get your number in front of the GC.