Construction Contracts

DDC awards most construction contracts through an open competitive sealed bid (CSB) process as prescribed by State and local law. DDC also uses pre-qualification lists (PQLs) and job order contracting (JOCS) to award certain types of construction work.

The New York State legislature granted DDC the authority to use Design-Build in 2019 and CM-Build delivery (for some types of work) in 2024. See Alternative Delivery for more information.

Competitive Sealed Bid (Open Bid)

All construction solicitations are released via PASSPort, where vendors can download bid documents and respond to solicitations. DDC also maintains the following resources on our site:

Live Bid Openings: DDC is required per law to conduct live bid openings, which are hosted virtually on YouTube. Access live bid openings and an archive of past bid openings here.

Preliminary Bid Results: DDC publishes preliminary results of recent bid openings here.

DDC and other agencies may directly award contracts over $20,000 and up to $1.5 million to City-certified M/WBE vendors via a limited competition process called the M/WBE Small Purchase method. Examples of contracts DDC awarded using the M/WBE Small Purchase method are posted here. If you are a City-certified M/WBE and are interested in receiving solicitations for similar opportunities, please email: mwbediscretionaryinfo@ddc.nyc.gov.

Pre-Qualified Lists

DDC uses pre-qualified lists (PQLs) to solicit bids for certain construction, enabling the agency to evaluate vendors’ qualifications before issuing a solicitation for a specific project. To be eligible for these solicitations, prospective vendors must first prequalify for open PQLs via an RFQ process. Only those contractors successfully prequalified will be invited to bid on these projects.

All PQL solicitations are released via PASSPort. This includes open solicitations for vendors to be included in a PQL and project-specific solicitations issued to pre-qualified vendors. DDC maintains PQLs for:

Buildings work:

• General Construction Small Projects (M/WBE contractors only)
• General Construction Medium Projects
• General Construction Large Projects
• Landmarked and Landmark-Quality Buildings
• SBS Modified Bitumen Roofing
• Cold Fluid Applied Reinforced Membrane Roofing

Infrastructure work:

• Emergency Sewer work
• Emergency Water work

Contract Information

• DDC Contract Documents: DDC maintains a database of most DDC construction contract documents here.
• Find current construction contracts and contract holders on PASSPort.

Alternative Delivery Contracts

In 2019, the New York State Public Works Investment Act granted DDC and other agencies the ability to use design-build delivery for the first time. In 2024, that authorization was expanded to allow DDC to use CM-build and progressive design-build for certain types of projects. DDC’s design-build and CM-build program and opportunities are described in detail on our dedicated Alternative Delivery page.