Four small-scope jobs close out Tuesday, October 20, and a fifth lands a day later — a stretch worth clearing your calendar for if you chase anything under a few hundred grand.

Nassau County wants split-system and portable air conditioning units repaired and replaced across county facilities (RFI-003066). No estimated value is posted, but repair-and-replace work on portable and split units is the kind of job that moves fast once awarded — a short-list HVAC shop with a truck and a tech could be doing billable work within weeks. Bids close October 20 through the county's own solicitation board.

Same day, the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York wants an Expression of Interest for FISP 9 facade repair at John Jay College's New Building at 899 10th Avenue in Manhattan (RFI-002871). FISP — that's the city's facade inspection law, the one that makes building owners certify their walls aren't going to drop a brick on 10th Avenue — is a steady generator of repair contracts, and this one's an EOI, meaning DASNY is still building its list of interested firms before anything gets bid. Worth getting your name in now if facade work is your lane.

Up in Saratoga Springs, the state's Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation office re-issued a ceiling job at the Saratoga Spa State Park administration building on September 28, this time with actual price lines attached: six light fixtures removed, 441 square feet of ceiling tile abatement, and 441 square feet of lead-painted plaster repair (RFI-003004). That's a gut-and-patch job sized for a two- or three-man abatement crew, not a general contractor with a crane. Quotes are due October 20 at 3 p.m., and the window to ask questions already closed October 9 — so if you haven't looked at this one yet, you're bidding on what's already on the page, no clarifications coming.

Also due October 20: a culvert replacement over Middle Brook in Black Brook, up near the Adirondacks, posted as an MBE/WBE/SDVOB subcontracting outreach opportunity under PIN 7754.20 (RFI-003282). This one's not a prime bid — it's the state casting a wider net for certified subs on a highway drainage job, which means the actual prime contract is already in motion elsewhere. If you're MWBE- or SDVOB-certified and do drainage or concrete work, this is the outreach stage, not the bid stage.

Eastern Suffolk BOCES also closes October 20 on a mechanical-only contract for Phase 3 and Phase 4 renovations at its Patchogue learning center (RFI-003322). This is MC-1 — mechanical only, meaning someone else is handling the general trades — and the pre-bid meeting already happened October 7. Documents live on the Biddy Projects plan room, and you need to register there to pull them; there's no walk-up copy.

One day later, on October 21, the plumbing package at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center's Building 73 roof-and-facade job comes due (RFI-002322). This is the smallest of four contracts tied to that job, estimated between $100,000 and $250,000, and it carries a $16,500 bid deposit along with 5 percent MBE, 5 percent WBE and 3 percent SDVOB goals. The state pushed this one back from October 7 to October 21 for all four contracts at once — an update worth noting if you'd already written this job off your calendar for last week.

Six jobs, two deadline days, no overlap in trade — which is exactly why this is a calendar problem and not a bidding war. Nobody's competing with themselves across these.