Six DFW bid deadlines, Fort Worth’s data-center permit rule and 61 electrical calls (2026)

One submission deadline and one permit-rule change need attention on August 18. Collin College's parking-lot restriping solicitation closes at 3 p.m.; Fort Worth now requires additional documentation before the city treats a new data-center permit application as complete.

Act first

Make a go/no-go call on Collin College by midmorning. FY2026-RFP-064 covers district-wide parking-lot restriping and closes August 18 at 3 p.m. The college requires formal responses through its electronic procurement system; emailed and faxed bids are rejected. 1 Open the owner's project page, then assign one person to finish the upload and save the submission confirmation well before 3 p.m.
Add written PUCT and ERCOT approvals to every new Fort Worth data-center permit checklist. The Chapter 14 ordinance approved August 11 requires applications for a predevelopment conference, plat, replat, building permit or another development permit to include written proof of approvals required by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). The city can treat the application as incomplete until it receives that documentation. 2
Reserve safety orientation for new field hires. TEXO's Spanish-language Safety First session starts at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, August 20, in Dallas. Registration is required, walk-ins are barred, and attendees need photo ID and jobsite attire. The course issues TEXO's personalized orientation card. TEXO says the Safety First course no longer counts toward an OSHA 10 card. 3

Six opportunities to screen

The North Texas Small Business Development Center's current bid board supplies the deadlines and short scopes below. Each row links to the owner portal, which controls addenda, bonding, pre-bid requirements and the final submission instructions.

Due	Owner and work	Best fit	Next move
Aug. 18, 3 p.m.	Collin College — FY2026-RFP-064, district-wide parking-lot restriping. 4	Striping, pavement-marking and parking-lot maintenance firms	Check OpenGov project 281910, then confirm the upload is complete well before 3 p.m.
Aug. 24, noon	Fort Worth Housing Solutions — irrigation services. 4	Irrigation repair and grounds-maintenance contractors	Pull Bonfire opportunity 245453 and verify the property list, service levels and insurance requirements.
Aug. 25, 2 p.m.	City of Richardson — ITB 508-26, annual electrical services for special events; the board lists an estimated $70,000 a year for bidding purposes. 4	Service electricians and event-power crews	Open Bonfire opportunity 246153 and check response lines, after-hours expectations and addenda.
Aug. 26, 2 p.m.	City of Plano — 2026-0572-B, Bob Woodruff Park South sidewalk connection; the board lists an estimated $442,280 project cost. 4	Concrete, sidewalk, traffic-control and park-site contractors	Review Ionwave bid 2295 for plan sheets and the school-zone traffic-control constraints.
Sept. 4, 1:30 p.m.	City of Irving — 135LR-26F, annual supply of ice-control sand. 4	Sand, aggregate and municipal-material suppliers	Pull Ionwave bid 4332 and verify gradation, delivery points and estimated quantities.
Sept. 17, 2 p.m.	Tarrant Regional Water District — 26-147, Panther Island Canals C & D construction in Fort Worth. 4	Heavy civil, excavation, concrete and water-infrastructure teams	Register for OpenGov project 284912, download the full package and confirm any pre-bid meeting before building the team.

Treat the board as the alarm clock, not the bid set. The Richardson and Plano dollar figures are the board's estimates. Use the owner's plans, specifications and addenda to build the estimate; treat the board figures as screening numbers.

What changed in Fort Worth

The council took three separate data-center actions on August 11. It approved the Chapter 14 application rule, created a Data Center & Infrastructure Commission and directed staff to begin the statutory process for a 90-day moratorium. The moratorium has not started. Fort Worth must complete notices, two public hearings and two ordinance readings before it can take effect; the current schedule points to a February 16, 2027 adoption vote. 5

Fort Worth data-center applications and jobs already underway are not paused today; the council has only started the moratorium process. For pipeline tracking, label each project by its zoning-application status. KERA reports that the future moratorium would exclude projects with zoning applications already submitted or approved. 5 New application teams should put PUCT and ERCOT approval documents in the first city filing. The city's resolution directs its new commission to report by November 3 on electricity, water, noise, land use and infrastructure. 2

Sixty-one electrical calls are still open

IBEW Local 20's August 18 dispatch board lists 26 journeyman wireman calls, 32 construction-wireman/construction-electrician calls and three teledata calls. The posted journeyman scale is $40.65 an hour, and the foreman scale is $46.75. The named jobs include DataBank in Red Oak, QTS in Irving, a hospital in Forney, the new Children's hospital in Dallas and Harris Methodist in downtown Fort Worth. 6

Union signatories pricing data-center, hospital and service work should use the live board to see which classifications employers are requesting, then call the hall to confirm worker availability. The 61 open calls span journeyman, construction wireman/construction electrician and teledata classifications across both sides of the metroplex. Price labor from the applicable agreement and current dispatch information; replace any crew assumption carried from the last bid.

Crew pipeline and dates to book

August 20: TEXO Safety First in Spanish, Dallas. Registration opens at 7 a.m.; class starts at 7:30 a.m. No walk-ins are accepted, and cost is not displayed on the event page. 3
Registration deadline: August 25. TEXO's four-module Technical to Manager program costs $3,000 and includes coaching. The September and October sessions are in Dallas; the November and December sessions are in Fort Worth. 7
August 31 deadline: Texas Construction Career Pathways is taking applications for its next DFW Apprenticeship Readiness Program. The free, three-week Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3) program runs weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and connects graduates with union registered apprenticeship programs. Applicants must be at least 18, have a diploma or GED, hold a valid driver's license, have work authorization and take a drug test on day two. 8 The program's application steps and full eligibility list are on the provider's site.

Assign by August 25

Make the bid/no-bid decision on Collin College FY2026-RFP-064; if bidding, complete the owner-portal upload by 3 p.m. August 18.
Assign an estimator to every opportunity due through August 26 and check each owner portal for addenda.
Add PUCT and ERCOT approval documents to Fort Worth data-center predevelopment and permit checklists.
Compare electrical manpower assumptions with Local 20's live dispatch board.
Register Spanish-speaking new hires for Safety First and keep OSHA 10 scheduling separate.
Send the DFW apprenticeship-readiness application to qualified entry-level candidates before August 31.
Decide whether the next foreman or assistant project manager belongs in TEXO's Technical to Manager cohort before the August 25 cutoff.