U.S. General Services Administration
Small businesses receive D’Amato Courthouse contract awards as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda
GSA announces nearly $3 million in investments in Central Islip, NY
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that contracts have been awarded to two local small businesses to work on the Alfonse D’Amato Courthouse parking lot repaving project, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.
- GSA awarded a $2,801,992 paving contract to Trio Asbestos Removal Corporation of College Point, NY.
- GSA awarded a $124,036 contract to Cotter Consulting, LLC, a woman-owned small business from Chicago to provide construction oversight and inspection services.
“These investments in woman-owned and locally-owned small businesses further GSA’s commitment to collaborating and building more robust outreach with communities across America,” said GSA Regional Administrator for the Northeast and Caribbean Region, Francis Thomas. “The project is using sustainable materials to repave these parking lots, improving conditions for building occupants and visitors.”
The D’Amato Courthouse project is one of more than 150 LEC projects that GSA announced in November 2023. Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, this project will repair the building’s visitor parking lot with low-embodied carbon asphalt. The project will use asphalt that meets GSA’s Top 20% level of global warming potential.
The announcement furthers the Biden-Harris Administration’s Federal Buy Clean Initiative, under which the federal government is, for the first time, prioritizing the purchase of low-embodied carbon asphalt, concrete, glass and steel that have lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions associated with their production, use and disposal. These investments aim to expand America’s industrial capacity for manufacturing goods and materials of the future, address the climate crisis and create good-paying jobs for workers in the region.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes $3.4 billion for GSA to build, modernize and maintain more sustainable and cost-efficient high-performance facilities that utilize low-embodied carbon materials. GSA’s Inflation Reduction Act projects will implement new technologies and accelerate GSA’s efforts in achieving a net-zero emissions federal building portfolio by 2045. Through these investments, GSA estimates that it will reduce operational carbon emissions by 2.3 million metric tons, the same amount that 500,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles produce each year.
This announcement is part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, focused on growing the American economy from the bottom up and the middle-out – from rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to creating a manufacturing and innovation boom, to building a clean-energy economy that will combat climate change and make our communities more resilient.
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About GSA: GSA provides centralized procurement and shared services for the federal government, managing a nationwide real estate portfolio of nearly 370 million rentable square feet, overseeing over $100 billion in products and services via federal contracts, and delivering technology services that serve millions of people across dozens of federal agencies. GSA’s mission is to deliver the best customer experience and value in real estate, acquisition, and technology services to the government and the American people. For more information, visit GSA.gov and follow us at @USGSA.