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Maintenance Dredging of Newark Bay, NJ Federal Navigation Project NB22

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SUMMARY OF WORK

01/20

PART 1 GENERAL

1.1 FAR 52.211-10, COMMENCEMENT, PROSECUTION AND COMPLETION OF WORK

a. The Contractor shall be required to (i) commence work under this contract within five (5) calendar days after the date the Contractor receives the Notice to Proceed, (ii) prosecute the work diligently, and

(iii) complete the entire work ready for use, not later than 144 calendar days with an additional 56 calendar days to total 200 calendar days should the options be exercised, after the date the Contractor receives the notice to proceed. The time stated for completion shall include final cleanup of the premises.(FAR 52.212-3)

b. All work shall be in accordance with the drawings and specifications or instructions attached hereto and made a part thereof, or to be furnished hereafter by the Contracting Officer or Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and subject, in every detail, to his supervision, direction, and instructions.

1.2 WORK COVERED BY THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS

1.2.1 Project Description

The work to be performed under this project consists of providing all materials, plant, labor, equipment and services (except those furnished by the Government) to perform maintenance dredging of Newark Bay, New Jersey, Federal Navigation Project, with placement of the material at a Contractor furnished, state-permitted, Upland Placement Site(s). The Contractor will be solely responsible for coordinating, obtaining, and be in compliance with all requirements for transportation, offloading, dewatering, processing, and disposing of the dredge material, as well as for obtaining all permits and for meeting all requirements for the processing and disposal site(s) identified by the Contractor. See Section 35 20 29 entitled "DREDGED MATERIAL TRANSPORT AND PLACEMENT MONITORING" for more information.

The maintenance for this project consists of dredging approximately 468,435 CY of material based on the plans and specifications survey performed in January - February 2022. For more details, see "ESTIMATED QUANTITIES" in Section 00 30 00 "ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS" of these Specifications.

The dredge material has been determined to be composed of primarily silt and clay.

A summary of the Dredging Areas is shown in the table below:

DREDGING AREAS TOTAL

ESTIMATED

QUANTITY

(CY)

CONTRACT TIME

FOR COMPLETION

(Calendar Days)

BASIC WORK-Dredging Area 1: (-40'

MLLW + 1' OD)

51,280 31

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BASIC WORK-Dredging Area 3: (-40'

MLLW + 1' OD)

57,100 23

BASIC WORK-Dredging Area 4: (-50'

MLLW + 1' OD)

224,795 90

OPTION 1-Dredging Area 5: (-50'

MLLW + 1' OD)

25,335 11

Contract time for completion is based on a minimum average production rate of 2,500 cubic yards (CY) per day for dredging, transportation, processing and placement at a contractor furnished, state permitted, Government approved upland placement site(s). Should the total quantity of material exceed the estimated quantities within the Solicitation Contract Form, additional time will be allowed at the rate of one (1) calendar day for each 2,500 cubic yards in excess of the established limit. The time stated for completion shall include final clean up.

The contractor must bid on all items of the bid schedule. The following CLINs require dredging of the Newark Bay, NJ, Federal Navigation Project, with subsequent transportation, processing and placement of the dredged material at a contractor furnished, state permitted, Government approved upland placement site(s):

CLIN 0002 (BASIC WORK-Dredging Area 1 - requires dredging to the plane of -40 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) plus 1 foot allowable overdepth).

CLIN 0003 (BASIC WORK-Dredging Area 3 - requires dredging to the plane of -40 feet MLLW plus 1 foot allowable overdepth).

CLIN 0004 (BASIC WORK-Dredging Area 4 - requires dredging to the plane of -50 feet MLLW plus 1 foot allowable overdepth).

CLIN 0006 (OPTION 1-Dredging Area 5 - requires dredging to the plane of -50 feet MLLW plus 1 foot allowable overdepth).

Scow monitoring is required for this project. The contractor is required to comply with Section 35 20 29 entitled "DREDGED MATERIAL TRANSPORT AND PLACEMENT MONITORING", of these specifications.

Sampling and testing was conducted by the Government in 2021, and the grain size test results are included in the specifications in Section 00 90 01 as Attachment J. The complete sampling and testing results can be found as attachments to this solicitation on SAM.gov. Using the 2021 test results, the Apparent Low Bidder shall coordinate with the State(s) to obtain necessary offloading, transportation, dewatering, processing, and disposal permits/requirements of the site(s) identified by the Apparent Low Bidder.

The Contractor shall be solely responsible for coordinating, obtaining, and complying with all the offloading, transportation, dewatering, processing

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OPTION 2-Dredging Area 6: (-50'

MLLW + 1' OD)

70,765 29

CLIN 0007 (OPTION 2-Dredging Area 6 - requires dredging to the plane of -50 feet MLLW plus 1 foot allowable overdepth).

CLIN 0008 (OPTION 3-Dredging Area 2 - requires dredging to the plane of -40 feet MLLW plus 1 foot allowable overdepth).

Based on the plans and specifications survey performed in January - February 2022, the maximum quantity available to be dredged is 468,435 CY from the contract areas in the Newark Bay, Federal Navigation Project. For a detailed breakdown of quantity available to be dredged, see paragraph 1.9 "ESTIMATED QUANTITIES" in Section 01 30 00 of the Specifications.

OPTION 3-Dredging Area 2: (-40'

MLLW + 1' OD)

39,160 16 and disposal permits/requirements of the site(s) identified by the Contractor.

The current New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Water Quality Certificate (WQC) for the maintenance dredging of Newark Bay, NJ Federal Navigation Project is included in Section 00 90 02. The contractor must comply with all conditions of the NJDEP WQC.

The work is anticipated to be performed within the approximate time period of July 2022 - February 2023.

Per the NJDEP WQC, dredging is prohibited from 01 February through 31 May, in order to protect Migrating Anadromous Fish, Shortnose Sturgeon, and Atlantic Sturgeon.

Please take note of the Section 00 90 01, Attachment K.

If necessary, the Apparent Low Bidder must notify the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of his proposed construction methods, via Form 7460-1, Attachment K in Section 00 90 01. The Apparent Low Bidder is responsible for all coordination with the FAA, and for determining if any more recent FAA requirements now exist.

1.3 PERFORMANCE OF WORK BY THE CONTRACTOR

The Contractor shall perform on the site, and with its own organization and equipment, work equivalent to at least forty (40) percent of the total amount of work to be performed under the contract. This percentage may be reduced by a supplemental agreement to this contract if, during performance of the work, the Contractor requests a reduction and the Contracting Officer and/or his Representative determines that the reduction would be to the advantage of the Government. (FAR 52.236-01)

1.4 DFARS 236.204, DISCLOSURE OF THE MAGNITUDE OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

The entire work (CLINs 0001 through 0008) is estimated to cost approximately $25,000,000.00 to $100,000,000.00.

1.5 DATUM AND BENCH MARKS

Soundings and Elevations shown in the contract drawings are in US Survey Feet and refer to Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) epoch 1983-2001. The Plane of MEAN LOWER LOW WATER (MLLW) is 3.0 FEET BELOW NAVD88 AS DETERMINED USING VDATUM (VER. 4.3). The following Benchmark information should be referenced for defining local datum and required project depth.

Newark Bay

Benchmark:

"P 38"

PID: KV0333

Proj: NJM X: 598481.816, Y: 665855.146 Elevation: 21.96' (NAVD88) Geo 12A

STATION DESCRIPTION

DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1952

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