Atch River Bay, Bar & Misc Projects, Cutterhead Dredge Rental No. 1-2015

This is an UNRESTRICTED procurement. NAICS Code: 237990. All qualified business concerns may submit offers. Offers from large business firms must comply with FAR 19.7 and FAR Clause 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for submission of a subcontracting plan. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers FY 14 subcontracting goals are for specified percentages of the contractor's total planned subcontracting amount to be placed with the following: Small Business 50.0%; Small Disadvantaged Business 17.0%; Woman Owned Small Business 18.0%; HUBZONE Small Business 10.0%; Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business 4.0%, and Veteran Owned Business 8.5%.The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge on a rental basis for the removal and satisfactory disposal of shoal material in the Atchafalaya River Bay and Bar Channels. Work may be required in other areas of the New Orleans District. The estimated value of this work is between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000.00. The solicitation will issue on or about 13 August 2015 and a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment. The solicitation documents for this procurement will be posted on Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI). You can access these files from a link located on FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). You will need the adobe acrobat reader for .pdf files (www.adobe.com) in order to open most files posted by the New Orleans District. You are encouraged, for marketing purposes, to register as an Interested Vendor in FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). This can be done by clicking on the solicitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerors are also encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administration Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerors must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: http://www.sam.gov. The Contract Specialist for this solicitation is Lauren Gandolfi at 504-862-2340; or by e-mail at Lauren.A.Gandolfi@usace.army.mil.