With much of the immediate Superstorm Sandy recovery work completed, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is turning its sights on longer-term projects caused by the storm. Agency officials who spoke at ENR New York's 4th Annual MTA MWDBE Conference, held May 9 in New York, encouraged minority, women and disadvantaged business enterprises (MWDBEs) to look to the MTA for recovery work opportunities.

NYC mayoral candidate Bill Thompson gave the keynote address at the event. Thompson, a former NYC comptroller, chairs New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo's MWBE Task Force.

Details have yet to be publicized but MTA's NYC Transit plans to advertise bids of "well over $100 million" the week of May 13 for work on the East River tubes severely damaged by the storm, says Clifford Slater, NYC Transit assistant chief procurement officer. Much of the work involves major replacement of cabling in the tubes and calls for civil, electrical and plumbing contractors as well as other specialists, he says.

他说，当装有盐水时，这些管子包含通信和电气设备以及火车的电源线。Slater说：“我们很快进行了一些维修，这些事情是过时的。但是我们有一个远程问题，主要是在管下方的电缆上。”他补充说，这是因为盐水腐蚀，往往会导致短裤和电缆断裂。

Slater says the agency has other work that has not yet been posted because it is still under discussion.

Metro-North Railroad expects to let bids in the first or second quarter of 2014, says Anthony Gardner, Metro-North Railroad deputy director of procurement policy. One will be for about $40 million and another will be in two phases of about $100 million each, he says.

"The majority of our damage was sustained on the Hudson Line," Gardner says. Significant work is needed relating to communication and signal equipment, he says.

For the Long Island Rail Road, most of the work involves substations, signals and tunnels, says Richard Mack, the railroad's director of capital construction contracts. "You're often talking about very old infrastructure and the actual investigation to determine the state of the actual damage is a very complex undertaking."

在暴风雨中，Lirr的长滩分支尤其受损。麦克说，竞标将于5月20日开放，以取代该分支机构的Oceanside和Oil City变电站，均受到暴风雨的严重破坏。他补充说，该项目的参与目标为10％。

"We have other projects coming online as well," including the Long Beach substation, which is located inside of a structure, Mack says. Bids for this project will likely be advertised later this year, he adds.

同时，发言人说，由于其各自的部门仍在试图量化风暴的损害，损害估计可能会发生变化。

"Right now the agencies are in the investigative stages and are really trying to determine the actual extent of the damage," Mack says. "In many instances, there will be a need for the design before we go into the construction phase."

Several of the speakers also encouraged MWDBEs to look to the agency for work and to become certified if they are not already.