WHITE PLAINS, NY (November 7, 2025) — The Westchester County Board of Acquisition and Contract approved a slate of amendments, new agreements and awards totaling tens of millions of dollars for services ranging from paratransit operations to emergency generator maintenance during its meeting Friday in the County Executive Conference Room at the Michaelian Office Building.
Topping the agenda were infrastructure projects in New Rochelle, including approval of Weeks Marine, Inc. Specialty of Omaha, Nebraska, and Mass. Electric Construction Co. of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, as subconsultants on Contract No. 20-517 with Kiewit Infrastructure Co. for rehabilitation of the Glen Island Approach Bridge over New Rochelle Harbor (BIN 3348880). Separately, the board greenlit CBZ Consulting, Inc. of Yonkers as a subconsultant on Agreement No. 25-905 with Henningson, Durham & Richardson Architecture and Engineering, P.C. of White Plains for services tied to the Sludge Thickener Rehabilitation at the New Rochelle Water Resource Recovery Facility.
In Rye Brook, the board awarded Contract No. 25-503 to Grace Industries LLC of Melville, New York, as the low bidder in the amount of $15,719,468 for Runway 16/34 Shoulders and Edge Lighting Rehabilitation across the Towns of Harrison and North Castle and the Village of Rye Brook. Three bids were received.
A multi-million-dollar amendment to paratransit services drew significant funding, boosting Agreement No. DOTOP03-22 with White Plains Bus Company Inc. d/b/a Suburban Paratransit Service, Inc. by $73,368 from $73,062,500 to $73,135,868. The five-year deal, running through December 31, 2026 with a county option for another five years, now requires operations on Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in 2025 at a rate not to exceed $36,689 per day.
Shelter expansions took center stage with an amendment to the agreement with The Young Women’s Christian Association of Yonkers for emergency overnight shelter operations at 10 Saint Casimir Avenue in Yonkers for up to 60 single adult males, including a day program, plus transport and shelter services at Operations Drive in Valhalla for up to 35 more. The period from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, extends six months to December 31, 2025, with the not-to-exceed amount rising by $1,187,049.50 to $3,621,148.50 to cover the added term.
Bus facility upgrades secured $3,700,000 under Contract No. 24-507, awarded to the sole bidder Mace Contracting Corporation (MBE) of New Rochelle for replacing the bus wash system at the Alphonse J. Cerrato Bus Maintenance Facility on the Grasslands Campus in Valhalla. One bid was submitted.
Homeless infrastructure improvements earned a low-bid award of $1,018,700 on Contract No. 25-508 to NYC Superior Construction Corp. (MBE) of Staten Island for work at the Grasslands Shelter Facility on the Grasslands Campus in Valhalla. Ten bids came in.
Mental health services for adults at the Department of Community Mental Health’s new clinic facilities went to Westchester Medical Center Advanced Physician Services, P.C. for psychiatric assessments, treatment and medication management under a 14-month initial term from November 1, 2025, to December 31, 2026, not to exceed $400,000, with four automatic one-year renewals through December 31, 2030.
Workforce training providers expanded with the addition of Westchester Barber Academy, Inc. to a prior April 24, 2025, resolution covering 22 providers under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014. The seven-year period from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2027, now includes 23 providers for a total aggregate not-to-exceed $2,125,704.
Food distribution support for non-profits grew by $50,000 under an amendment with Feeding Westchester, Inc. for collecting, storing and distributing food to the ill, needy and infants countywide. The one-year term from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025, now totals not to exceed $850,000.
Emergency generator maintenance across Department of Environmental Facilities locations went to low bidder Gentech Ltd. of New Windsor under Contract No. EF-2504 for $817,645.50. Four bids were received.
Smaller agreements and amendments, all under $100,000, rounded out the agenda, including a $254,333.04 contract with The New Crystal Restoration Enterprises, Inc. of Port Chester for emergency cleaning at the Westchester County Center; a retroactive five-year license with T-Mobile Northeast LLC for equipment at 3800 Crompond Road in Yorktown paying the county $68,228.52 annually; a $60,000 boost to temporary office staffing with New York State Industries for the Disabled, Inc. for 2025; pass-through opioid funds of $7,402 to the City of Mount Vernon; genetic testing with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings for $15,000; lead remediation amendments in Yonkers totaling up to $50,000 in assistance; a $125,000 school district permit for civil service exams; and various extensions, assignments and no-cost memorandums for parks, corrections, health information networks and more.
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