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Sources Sought Walker Branch Wetland Restoration – Section 1135

Design, Bid, Build

INTRODUCTION

The Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support the requirement for construction services for the Walker Branch Wetland Restoration

– Section 1135. The Government will provide the contractor a full design package which will include sealed design drawings and specifications. Primary components of Walker Branch 1135 include two independently controlled wetland pools created by constructing earthen embankments with three water control structures and auxiliary spillway. Restoring this wetland would restore vegetation in the area and provide important habitat to migrating waterfowl and other wildlife.

Features to be constructed and associated construction activities include approximately 2500’ of earthen berms constructed to USACE dam quality requirements, welded steel pipe Wisconsin tube water control structures, high-capacity cast-in-place concrete water control structure that is similar to a small bridge/multi-cell culvert, rip rap protection on auxiliary spillways, excavation (up to 12ft) of borrow material, installation of sheet pile beneath limited reaches of earthen berms, installation of gravel car park and boat ramp. The contractor must have the capacity to construct the project within 12 months and have prior experience managing large environmental restoration projects.

BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET

RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES (IN

FULL OR IN PART) OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION. All Small Business Set-Aside categories will be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Centerville, Iowa

DISCLAIMER

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A

“REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)” TO BE SUBMITTED. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A

SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE

GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT

IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS

ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF

RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY

RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

RESPONSES WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO THE RESPONDER. NOT RESPONDING TO

THIS NOTICE DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE REQUEST FOR

QUOTE (RFQ) OR INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) OR RFP, IF ANY ISSUED. IF A

SOLICITATION IS RELEASED, IT WILL BE SYNOPSIZED ON THE GOVERNMENT-WIDE

POINT OF ENTRY (GPE). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF POTENTIAL OFFERORS TO

MONITOR THE GPE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMMATION PERTAINING TO THIS

REQUIREMENT.

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) provide services consistent, in scope and scale, with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules;

cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

ELIGIBILITY

The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 237990 – Other Heavy and Civil Engineering

Construction, with a Small Business Size Standard of $45,000,000.00. The Product Service

Code is Y1PC - Construction of Unimproved Real Property (land). Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond; however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size in their capabilities statement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS (CAPABILITIES STATEMENT)

Interested parties are requested to submit a capabilities statement of no more than ten (10) pages in length in Times New Roman font of not less than 10 pitch. The deadline for response to this request is no later than 2 pm, CDT, 1 July 2025. All responses under this Sources

Sought Notice must be e-mailed to Nathaniel Leyba at nathaniel.j.leyba@usace.army.mil and

Laura Hedrick laura.l.hedrick@usace.army.mil.

This documentation must address at a minimum the following items:

1. Business name, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address

2. Business UEI number and Cage Code number

3. State specific interest in providing a bid if a solicitation is issued

4. Address capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity

5. Type of business and business size

6. Joint Venture information, existing and potential, if applicable

7. Offeror's Bonding Capability

8. Contractor may submit examples of work done by a subcontractor if that subcontractor intends to enter into a letter of commitment with the contractor

9. Submit details of a project, either complete or substantially complete within the last 5 years, showing experience driving sheet pile into the ground. Details should include project mailto:nathaniel.j.leyba@usace.army.mil mailto:laura.l.hedrick@usace.army.mil name, date, description of work self-performed and customer served.

10. Submit details of a project, either complete or substantially complete within the last 5 years, showing experience installing high-capacity cast-in-place concrete water control structure that is similar to a small bridge/multi-cell culvert. Details should include project name, date, description of work self-performed and customer served.

11. Submit details of a project, either complete or substantially complete within the last 5 years, showing experience constructing earthen berms/low dams and/or levees meeting

USACE quality requirements.

12. Submit details of a project, either complete or substantially complete within the last 5 years, showing experience excavating to a depth of up to 12ft for borrow material.

13. Submit details of a project, either complete or substantially complete within the last 5 years, showing experience installing welded steel pipe Wisconsin tube water control structures.

14. Please submit minimum of one but no more than three examples of experience (include contract number, agency/customer, duration of the project, dollar value).

The proposed contract is anticipated to include tasking that would be accomplished by labor categories that are subject to the Davis Bacon Act.

Upon evaluation of the capability statements, if it is determined that this requirement will be an unrestricted competition, the Government intends to evaluate the Small-Business responses and conduct further market research to identify a subcontracting goal.

Your response to this Sources Sought, including any capabilities statement, shall be electronically submitted to the Contract Specialist, Nathaniel Leyba, in either Microsoft Word or

Portable Document Format (PDF), via email Nathaniel Leyba at nathaniel.j.leyba@usace.army.mil and Contracting Officer, Laura Hedrick at laura.l.hedrick@usace.army.mil.

All data received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government.

No phone calls will be accepted.

All questions must be submitted to the Contract Specialist identified above. The Government is not committed nor obligated to pay for the information provided, and no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought.

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