Pre_Solicitation_FY23_Presque Isle Beach Nourishment_31 Jan.docx

This is only a Pre-solicitation Notice: Presque Isle Beach Nourishment, Erie Pennsylvania.

The approximate date of solicitation issuance will be around 15 February 2023.

This is NOT a request for proposal or invitation for bid; this is for INFORMATIONAL purposes only to make industry aware of the upcoming requirement. A response is not required at this time. Questions will not be answered until official solicitation is issued.

The USACE Buffalo District is currently preparing a solicitation to award a contract for a project on the Presque Isle State Park Beach on Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania.

TYPE OF CONTRACT AND NAICS: The Government contemplates award of an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract under which we will issue firm fixed price task orders resulting from this solicitation.The North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) for this effort is 237990 – Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction.

This will be a Competitive 8(a) Set-Aside procurement. Offerors shall be registered as a 8(a) business via the (SBA) Small Business Administration to be eligible for award.

Scope of Work:

Work consists of, but is not limited to: purchase, delivery and placement of sand at designated locations along the beaches of Presque Isle State Park (PISP) peninsula for the purposes of beach nourishment. The sand shall be transported from an existing site stockpile, and additional quantities supplied by the Contractor from off-site sources (Type S sand). Work shall also include excavating sand from designated locations along the beaches (tombolo work) and delivering/spreading that sand at designated beach locations. All off-site sand shall be delivered and off-loaded at the North Pier which is equipped with mooring piles for docking delivery vessels and off-loading sand. Sand shall not be trucked to the site.

Work shall be sequenced in strict accordance with environmental date restrictions. Due to the presence of a designated critical habitat area (DCHA) for the federally endangered shorebird species, Piping Plover, there is an environmental restriction against working in certain site areas between 01 April and 02 July each year. If the Piping Plover shorebird species is observed on Presque Isle, then the restriction within the DCHA could be extended until 31 August. The DCHA extends over approximately 30% of the peninsula. The Contractor is responsible for performing the required piping plover monitoring before and during nourishment following an established monitoring protocol.

Sand Requirements:

Type S Beach sand fill shall be obtained from an approved commercial supplier and delivered to the site via vessel to the North Pier, which is situated on the peninsula, adjacent to the Erie Harbor federal navigation channel. Type S sand fill shall be reasonably well-graded, sound, hard, free of organics and other foreign and objectionable materials, and be approved by the Contracting Officer. Material furnished from an upland source shall be mined from clean, felsic-rich sand and gravel pits containing predominantly quartz and feldspar minerals, with silica content greater than 55%. In addition, no more than 2 percent of the total passing the #100 and #200 sieves shall have carbonate mineralization. It shall meet the graduation requirements listed below.

U.S. Standard Percent Finer Sieve Size by Weight 3/8 Inch 100 No. 4 90-100 No. 8 70-100 No. 16 45-83 No. 30 20-69 No. 50 10-34 No. 100 0-5 No. 200 0-2

The IDIQ maximum ordering amount will be $10M over a three year ordering period. A Bid bond will be required with bids and performance/payment bonds will be required for each task order. Task orders will not exceed $4M, generally between $2M and $3M each year.

The site visit will be announced when the solicitation is issued.

Please be advised that this requirement may be delayed, revised, or cancelled at any time before award.

SOLICITATION WEBSITE: The official solicitation and any subsequent amendments or updates, when posted, will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE), https://piee.eb.mil/.. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued. Telephone and Fax requests for this solicitation will not be honored. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, sing Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download the solicitation for this project, contractors are required to register at the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website at .. Solicitation Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing the solicitation and any amendments by the Government prior to closing. It is the Offerors responsibility to monitor the website for any amendments or changes to the solicitation.

REGISTRATIONS:

Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database:

System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.

No responses/questions will be addressed until solicitation is issued.