Contracting Opportunities

Minority, Women,
& Local Business & Workforce

The Port Authority is invested in developing minority, women-owned, local, Queens-based, and small business enterprises, as well as connecting them with contracting opportunities at the LaGuardia Redevelopment Program, including the AirTrain LGA project. These projects all have a nation leading utilization goal rate of 30% for MWBE participation. For participation, MWBE firms are required to be certified by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and/ or NYS Empire State Development.

AirTrain LaGuardia Contracting Opportunities

The LaGuardia AirTrain will provide a sustainable and reliable travel option to LaGuardia Airport. It will remove millions of vehicles from congested highways and local roads each year. The transformative AirTrain project will help drive the region’s economic recovery by creating 3,000 union construction jobs and more than $500 million in business contracting opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses and local, Queens-based businesses. For more information about the project, please visit: https://www.anewlga.com/airtrain/.

On August 18^th, the Port Authority announced a short list of four teams in the LaGuardia AirTrain procurement. Click here to view the four teams.

On September 23^rd, the Port Authority will host an information session and networking event for MWBE, SDVOB, and LBE interested in contracting opportunities. To register for the event, please click here.

• The list of expected trade packages can be found here
• To add your firm to the list of interested subcontractors for this project, please visit: https://bit.ly/AirTrainLGAmwbe.