Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) Maintenance Dredging

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Amendment 1:

This solicitation will be issued in electronic format only and is anticipated to be available on or about 1 July 2021.

Draft Specifications and Drawings attached. Note, these are DRAFT.  

Pre-Soliciation Synopsis is now open until 21 June 2021. 

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Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) Maintenance Dredging

W912HN-21-B-5003

NAICS: 237990

Size Standard: $30M

This synopsis is for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) Maintenance Dredging.  This acquisition is being offered as a 100% small business set-aside competitive solicitation and will result in a Fixed Price Contract Award. The magnitude of this requirement per FAR 36.204 is between $1M and $5M.

Project Location: The work is located within the Savannah District’s portion of the AIWW shallow draft waterway in the states of Georgia and South Carolina.  The AIWW in Savannah District begins in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina (Mile 552) and ends in Cumberland Sound, Georgia (Mile 713).  The AIWW project depth is -12.0’ Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) to include -2.0’ of allowable pay overdepth (-14.0’ MLLW). The widths vary from 90 feet in land cuts to 150 feet in natural waterways

Project Description: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) Altamaha Sound Beneficial Use of Dredged Material project and Selective Sites Maintenance Dredging Contract provides construction services, including furnishing personnel, transportation, mobilization and demobilization, equipment and materials required in connection with maintenance dredging and the pilot project.  This requirement has been traditionally performed with a hydraulic cutterhead dredge and the duration is expected to be six months from Notice to Proceed (NTP).  Up to 600 thousand cubic yards of maintenance material is expected to be removed from the AIWW.

Maintenance dredging will be performed in two selected sites on the AIWW; Altamaha Sound and Elba Cut.  The maintenance material from Elba Cut (mile 576 to mile 576.4) will be placed in Disposal Area (DA) 14B which is across the Savannah River from the dredging site.

The maintenance material in Altamaha Sound (mile 656.4 to mile 660) will be placed in an open water site to create a temporary 13.2 acre bird nesting site to assist Georgia Department of Natural Resources with available migratory shorebird habitat lost due to the last two hurricanes along the coast within the State.  Any shoaled material not being use for the bird island will be placed on Tract 36A which is an unconfined placement site on an island (Hammock) in the Altamaha River. 

Evaluation Criteria: The contract will be solicited and procured using Sealed Bidding Procedures under FAR Part 14.

NOTE: This solicitation will be issued in electronic format only and is anticipated to be available on or about 1 July 2021. Please note that the bid opening date will be specified in the solicitation when issued. No additional media (CD-ROM, floppy disks, faxes, etc.) will be provided. Any prospective Offeror must register in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://sam.gov. After completing SAM registration, interested Contractors and their subcontractors can obtain solicitation documents, plans and specifications for this solicitation within the same site under Contract Opportunities. Contractors that have an existing account should be able to use their existing logins to search for the solicitation number once it is released. It is the Offeror’s responsibility to check the Internet address provided as necessary for any amendments that may be posted to this solicitation. Paper copies of this solicitation will not be available. Other methods of requesting a package will not be honored. Contractual Questions should be forwarded to Contract Specialist, David Jimenez at David.A.Jimenez@usace.army.mil or to the attention of Contracting Officer, Whittni Hiscox at Whittni.C.Hiscox@usace.army.mil. The contracting office address is 100 West Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah Georgia, 31401.