3595 FY26 MDC Inland Coastal Vessel AE IDC - Sources Sought SAM.pdf

MDC Project 3595 – Inland Coastal Vessel IDC – Sources Sought Draft

This is a Sources Sought Notice and is for information purposes only.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS. NO SOLICITATION IS

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.

Responses to this request will not be returned. Not responding to this sources sought notice does not preclude participation in any future solicitation. It is the intent of the Contracting OƯice to use this information for market research purposes only. Please do not include any proprietary information in submitted responses.

The Government will NOT pay for the provision of any information, nor will it compensate any respondents for the development of such information.

A Market Survey is being conducted to determine if there are adequate small businesses for the following proposed contract: Award of one Indefinite Delivery Contract for Architect-Engineering Services in support of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Marine Design Center for Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Design support for the USACE fleet of inland and coastal vessels.

The intent of this notice is to determine the interest, availability, and capability of businesses. The NAICS code for the work described below is 541330 – Engineering Services (Exception 3 - Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture) with a small business size standard of $47,000,000.00. The expected Product Service Code (PSC) is C216 – Architect and Engineering- General: Marine Engineering. Award of the contract is expected in early 2027 with a 5-year ordering period. The intent is to award one contract with a total capacity of $20M. Individual Task Orders vary from approximately $50k to $2M. Location of supported vessels varies across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mission Responsibilities, but work will primarily be conducted at the firm’s oƯices in support of the Marine Design Center located in Philadelphia, PA.

Expected vessel types may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Inland River vessels, including: Push Boats and Towboats (various types & sizes), Work Boats, Buoy Tenders, Construction Tenders, Crew Boats (various types & sizes)

• Harbor and Coastwise vessels

• High speed craft

• Hydrographic survey vessels

• Tug Boats

• Debris Collectors

• Wicket Lifters

• New technology craft (i.e. hybrid, foil-cat, amphibious, ROV, etc.)

• Multi Hull Craft (i.e. catamarans, trihulls)

• Ice Strengthened vessels

• Vessels equipped with robotics systems

• Other self-propelled vessel types with hull LWL equal to or less than 150 feet, excluding barges

Expected Task Orders under this contract are likely to include, but not limited to, the following list:

• Feasibility studies

• Naval Architecture

• Vessel Stability Analyses

• Preparation of Naval Architectural Analyses

• Preparation of Floating Service Load Charts

• Marine Engineering

• Marine Electrical Engineering

• Hybrid Power System Engineering

• Ballast Water Treatment, and Vessel VGP design & engineering

• Regulatory (ABS, USCG, API) compliance

• Vessel overhauls and life extension projects

• FEMS Maintenance processes, and items

• Vessel energy efficiency optimization

• Propulsion type evaluation

• Propulsion sizing and design

• CRPP system design incorporating draft and velocity sensing

• River Draft propulsion and steering systems

• Structural modeling, (FEA) both steel and aluminum

• Computer-aided design and drafting (CADD)

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analyses

• Tank testing

• Sea keeping and motion analyses

• Dynamic Positioning System Analyses

• Acoustic and vibration engineering

• Crane, load handling, winch and deck machinery equipment design, integration, engineering and in-service support

• Hydraulic system design, integration, engineering, and in-service support

• Concept Design

• Preliminary design

• Contract level (final) design

• Detailed design

• Cost Estimates

• Vessel laser scans

• Vessel Photogrammetry

• Vessel inspections and condition evaluations

• Shipyard construction inspections

• Shipyard Engineering phase support

• Sea Trials support, including propulsion shaft line instrumentation and HP measurement

• Related design studies, analysis and reports

• Vessel Inclining Tests

• Marine Forensic Investigations and Analysis, to include recovery of media, videos and photographs

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

All interested business concerns for this requirement shall provide the following information when responding to this sources sought:

a. Business Name of Interested OƯeror

b. CAGE Code and SAM Unique Entity Identifier (UEI)

c. Type of Business Concern: Large Business or Small Business (please identify type of small business).

d. Business Classification (ie. 8a, HUBZone, WOSB, etc.) if applicable.

e. Statement of capability and qualifications of the organization to perform the requirement. This includes indication of professionally registered personnel on staƯ, or through a sub-contractor, in the field of Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, and/or Marine Electrical Engineering.

f. Statement of firm’s experience and capabilities as it relates to the design of Inland and Coastal vessels similar to those identified earlier in this document within the last five (5) years.

g. List of relevant projects to those stated above within the past five (5) years.

This list shall identify the nature of the work performed by the firm, percentage of overall work self-performed by the firm, and if applicable, the percentage of the overall work performed by a subcontractor.

h. Interested Small Businesses shall address how the firm will meet or exceed the requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.219-14 “Limitations on Subcontracting”.

** EACH SUBMISSION SHALL NOT EXCEED FIVE (5) PAGES TOTAL (One Sided) **

Notice to potential contractors: All OƯerors who provide goods or services to the

Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) located on the website https://www.sam.gov/portal/publi/SAM/#1. Additionally, all Services Disabled/Veterans Owned Business or Veterans Owned Small Business must be registered with the Department of Veterans AƯairs Center of Veterans Enterprise Vet Biz Registry located at http://vip.vetbiz.gov.

Responses shall be submitted no later than 1200 EDT FRIDAY, 10 April 2026.

Responses shall be submitted electronically via-email to:

Contract Specialist, Grace McMullen and Contracting OƯicer, Anastasia MoƯatt.

Email: grace.c.mcmullen@usace.army.mil and anastasia.e.moƯatt@usace.army.mil Please reference the sources sought notice ID W912BU26X3595 in the subject line of the email.

Note: No hardcopy or facsimile submissions will be accepted.

The Government will not pay for any material provided in response to this sources sought/market survey, provide an evaluation or additional information to respondents, nor return the data provided. This notice is for information purposes only and is not a request to be placed on a solicitation mailing list nor is it a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a solicitation. The results of this notice will be considered to be in eƯect for a period of one year from the date of this notice. Comments will be shared with the Government project team, but otherwise will be held in strict confidence.

QUESTIONS:

Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. If applicable, please submit questions via email only concerning this sources sought to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Philadelphia District (NAP) contracting oƯice at:

grace.c.mcmullen@usace.army.mil and Anastasia.E.MoƯatt@usace.army.mil.

CONTRACTING OFFICE:

W2SD ENDIST PHILADELPHIA

1650 ARCH STREET, 7TH FLOOR

PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-0000

UNITED STATES

This is not a request for proposals. No other notification to firms for this project will be made.