This week's board doesn't have a marquee mega-job on it. It has small municipal work — the kind that keeps a 12-man crew busy for a season — and two of these jobs have already told half the market they're not welcome.

Start with Peekskill's Nelson Avenue parking garage rehab (RFI-000247... no — RFI-001353), part of the city's Momentum Grant garage program: concrete deck repairs, structural steel, masonry and facade work, staircase and railing repairs, a new steel canopy, fireproofing restoration, fencing, and maintenance and protection of traffic. Documents have been up on the city's own portal since July 27, but the mandatory pre-bid has already been held — the city's language is blunt about it, no walkthrough means no bid. If you weren't in the room, this one isn't yours to chase. Bids close September 9 at 11 a.m. at Peekskill City Hall, with a 30% M/WBE goal and a 6% SDVOB goal riding on it. (Board: https://www.cityofpeekskillny.gov/Bids.aspx)

Same lockout, different island. Patchogue-Medford Public Library's emergency generator job (RFI-001725) splits into three prime contracts on a single small building — GC-1 for general construction, PC-1 for plumbing, EC-1 for electrical — to install a roof-mounted generator with new dunnage and platform, upgraded electrical distribution, new gas service piping, a new basement mechanical room, and fire alarm and sprinkler tie-ins. That three-way split on a job this size is the same split-prime logic behind New York's Wicks Law, even on work well under the size most contractors associate with it. The mandatory pre-bid already happened here too. Bids close September 9 at 2 p.m. (https://pmlib.org/)

Down in Westchester, two villages are racing the same fall paving window and both attached real teeth to it. Pleasantville's rebid pavement management program (RFI-001720) compresses the entire job into October 1 through November 30 — two months, start to finish — and carries liquidated damages of $1,000 per calendar day if you blow the schedule. Dobbs Ferry's resurfacing job on Washington, Osceola, Oliphant and Cedar (RFI-001726) gives you 45 calendar days and charges $900 a day late. Both are standard milling-and-overlay work with drainage and utility-box adjustments, but neither leaves room for a slow mobilization — price the crew you can actually put on the street October 1, not the one you wish you had. Pleasantville bids close September 9 at noon (https://www.bidnetdirect.com/new-york/villageofpleasantville); Dobbs Ferry's close the same day at 10:30 a.m. at Village Hall (https://www.dobbsferry.gov/home/pages/bids-rfps).

One more worth a phone call before you bid it: Greenburgh's Police Department HVAC job (RFI-000247), a single-prime contract touching plumbing, HVAC and electrical divisions with a 70-day completion and $250-a-day liquidated damages. The packet's actual scope-of-work line describes a 500 kW diesel standby generator installation — flatly contradicting the HVAC title on both the packet and the town's own listing. That's either a vendor copy-paste error or a scope nobody caught, and either way it's not something to estimate off the title page. Call the town, get the real scope confirmed, and note that the mandatory pre-bid already happened August 26 even though nothing in the packet or listing actually labels it mandatory. Bids close September 9 at 3 p.m. (https://www.nyscr.ny.gov/)

Small jobs don't forgive small mistakes. A missed walkthrough or a mis-read scope line costs you the same bid whether the job is worth $80,000 or $8 million — the difference is nobody's writing you a change order to fix it after the fact.