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Environment & Conservation

All New York State New York City

Total sector funding

$7.6B

732 organizations

Median award

$40K

2,521 awards

Largest award

$1.1B

avg $3.2M

Top-3 concentration

32%

of $7.6B

Market brief

The shape of this market

Environment & Conservation in New York City is a $7.6B sector concentrated in large infrastructure contracts, not diffuse grantmaking. With 732 organizations splitting 2,521 awards, the median award is just $40K while the average is $3.2M, a gap that signals a market dominated by a small number of very large capital projects sitting alongside a long tail of small awards. The top 3 recipients alone hold 32% of all funding.

Who leads, and why

Scale here is driven by single, massive construction contracts rather than repeat awardees. Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc leads with $1.1B from a single award, followed by Skanska ECCO III HVR JV at $848M, also from one award. This pattern, large dollar figures tied to one or two contracts, is characteristic of major water and infrastructure builds rather than ongoing service relationships.

Where the money comes from

The Department of Environmental Protection is the dominant buyer by a wide margin, awarding $6.8B across 567 contracts, dwarfing the Department of Sanitation's $558M across 236 contracts and the Department of Design and Construction's $186M across 14 contracts. On the legislative side, appropriations directed toward this sector are comparatively small and distributed, led by the Queens Delegation ($1.2M, 18 awards) and Linda Lee ($1.1M, 35 awards), indicating that legislative sponsorship plays a modest, supplementary role relative to agency contracting.

The opening

Given that DEP alone accounts for nearly 90% of sector funding, firms capable of executing large-scale water, sewer, and infrastructure contracts have the clearest path to major awards. Below the handful of billion-dollar projects, the $40K median award suggests real room for smaller organizations to compete for a high volume of modest contracts, particularly through agencies like Sanitation, HPD, and Parks with award counts in the dozens.

What to watch

Because concentration is high at the top, watch for the next wave of large DEP capital contracts, which historically have gone to specialized construction joint ventures like Welkin Mechanical and Bove-CAC JV LLC. On the smaller end, legislative sponsors such as Christopher Marte and Gale A. Brewer, each directing dozens of awards, indicate steady but modest appropriation activity worth monitoring for pattern shifts.

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