The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District awarded a $4.54 million firm fixed price contract to Crooked Branch, L.L.C. for 702 bottomland hardwood mitigation bank credits. The credits will fulfill mitigation requirements under the Comite River Diversion Project and East Baton Rouge Parish Watershed Flood Risk Management Project being undertaken by USACE. Per the original solicitation, 319 credits are required to offset unavoidable habitat losses from the Comite River project, and 383 credits for the East Baton Rouge project. Place of performance will be in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There is no set-aside designation for the contract. Crooked Branch will deliver the required 702 bottomland hardwood credits to USACE New Orleans by September 30, 2020 to compensate for environmental impacts from the flood risk management initiatives.
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