Abington Environmental

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, intends to award a firm fixed contract that utilizes natural stream stabilization methods and native vegetation plantings to enhance and restore aquatic, riparian, and wetland habitat of the above ground reaches of Sandy Run Creek at Roychester and Grove Parks in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS.

The contract work will consist of regrading, stabilizing, and re-planting approximately 840 linear feet of the stream bank with native plants at Roychester Park.  Removing and relocating approximately 755 feet of existing 10” vitrified clay sewer pipe, 2 concrete manholes, approximately 90 feet of existing 8” vitrified clay sewer pipe and 1 sanitary clean out with approximately 780 feet of 10” PVC sewer pipe and 2 precast reinforced concrete manholes.

The work also includes regrading, stabilizing, and re-planting approximately 1,250 linear feet of stream channel and banks at Grove Park.  Removing approximately 70 linear feet of existing concrete channel and redirecting local drainage by constructing a new concrete cutoff wall.  Regrading targeted areas within the forested floodplain to facilitate wetland function and provide additional habitat variability. Expanding an existing walking path with mulch or boardwalks. 

Contract period of performance will be 365 calendar days. 

The NAICS Code for this project is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and the small business size standard is $30.0 Million.  [NOTE: Dredging – To be considered small for purposes of Government procurement, a firm must perform at least 40 percent of the volume dredged with its own equipment or equipment owned by another small dredging concern.]

Responses to this Sources Sought Announcement will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. Narratives are requested with the following information, which shall not exceed a total of eight (8) pages.

1. Offeror’s name, address, points of contact with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.
2. Business size/classification to include any designations as Small Business, HUBZone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, 8(a), Women-Owned small businesses shall be indicated on first page of submission.
3. Provide construction bonding level per single contract/task order. Provide the aggregate sum total construction bonding level. Provide both capabilities which must be expressed in U.S. dollars; along with current available bonding capacity.
4. Description of capability to perform similar or same projects listed above, manage subcontractors, prepare and comply with various environmental and construction permits, and capacity to execute this project with other ongoing construction contracts.
5. Past performance/experience on projects of similar scope and magnitude, describing no more than five (5) projects that are at least 50% construction complete within the past five years. The past performance information should include project title, location, general description of the construction to demonstrate relevance to the proposed projects, the Offeror’s role, dollar value of contract, and name of the company, agency or government entity for which the work was performed with contact information (reference name, phone number and e-mail address).

Responses should be sent to Frederick Conway, at frederick.conway@usace.army.mil on or before May 31, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. EST.