B.08.03_AMD 0001_W912DR22B0001-0001_12-28-21.pdf

This federal contract opportunity solicitation seeks maintenance dredging services for navigation channels in the Port of Baltimore. The scope of work involves dredging approximately 1.5 million cubic yards of material from three channels - Fort McHenry, Craighill Entrance, and Cutoff Angle Channels - to depths of 51 feet MLLW with an additional 1 to 2 feet of allowable overdepth. The material dredged from Fort McHenry Channel will be placed in the Masonville Containment Facility, while material from the other two channels will be placed at the Poplar Island Ecosystem Restoration Project. An optional item to drag approximately 2 million square feet of the Northwest Branch East Channel is also included. The work must be performed between November 2021 and March 2022 using equipment such as clamshell dredges, hydraulic unloaders, tugs, scows, and attendant plant and pipeline. The period of performance for the base work is 130 calendar days from notice to proceed, with 10 additional days allowed if the optional drag item is exercised. The solicitation was issued by the Baltimore District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.