Beach erosion control and hurricane protection project beach renourishment - BAL harbour 2025 miami-dade county, florida

This is announcement constitutes a Source Sought. This announcement seeks information from industry and will only be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SOURCES SOUGHT. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. 

The Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking interest from prospective bidders for a potential fiscal year (FY) 2025 award of the aforementioned project.  The purpose of this sources sought is to gauge interest, capabilities, and qualifications of various members of the Dredging Community, to include Small Businesses, as the Government must ensure there is adequate competition amongst the potential pool of responsible contractors. 

The proposed project will be a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract. The Jacksonville District anticipates the issuance of an Invitation for Bid (IFB). No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to said sources sought or any follow-up information requested.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:

This project will renourish shoreline in Miami-Dade County, within the village of Bal Harbour, between Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Range Monuments R-27 in the north and R-31.5 in the south. The project includes construction of a beach berm. The sand for the project will be sourced from an offshore borrow area or from an upland sand mine. Project work also includes, but is not limited to, beach tilling, vibration control and monitoring, environmental species monitoring, and turbidity monitoring.  

NOTE:

Bidders must choose to either construct the project via dredging the ebb shoal offshore OR truck all the material from an upland mine.  Bidders are not permitted to do both.  The last time the ebb shoal was used as an offshore sediment source was in 2013 under contract No. W912EP-13-D-0005 Task Order 0003.  This project was also completed in 2021 by partially dredging the flood shoal and truck hauling the remainder under GROUP1-18-R-J017 (awarded under contract number W912EP19D0025 Task Order number W912EP21F0185).

 The Estimated Magnitude of construction is between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000.

The project will have an estimated period of performance, depending on the method of construction, as follows:

a. If dredging and placement, 165 calendar days from NTP; or

b. If truck haul placement, 240 calendar days from NTP.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction . The Small Business Size Standard for this project is $45.0 million.

Anticipated solicitation issuance date is on or about 16 October 2024 and the anticipated bid opening date is on or about 15 November 2024. The Synopsis citing the solicitation number will be issued on the SAM Contracting Opportunities Website: at https://.sam.gov/.

NOTE: U.S. COAST GUARD CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED FOR ALL DREDGE EQUIPMENT. THERE ARE NO EQUIPMENT RESTRICTIONS FOR TRUCK HAUL. 

Responses to this Sources Sought shall be limited to 5 pages and shall include the following information:

1. Company/Contractor name, address, point of contact, phone number and e-mail address.
2. Company’s interest in bidding on the subject requirement when issued.
3. Company’s capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity (include company’s capability to execute comparable work performed within the past 10 years).  Company should provide at least 3 examples which, at a minimum, include the following:
   1. Brief description of the project
   2. Customer name
   3. Customer satisfaction
   4. Timeliness of performance
   5. Dollar value of the completed projects
4. Offeror shall identify their Small Business classification and Small Business Size

_ Small Business

_ Small Disadvantage Business

_ 8(a) Small Business

_ HUB Zone

_ SDVOSB

            _ WOSB

1. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, firms should address the structure of such arrangement include Joint Venture information, if applicable – existing and potential.
2. Bonding Capacity (construction bonding level per contract and aggregate construction bonding level, both expressed in dollars) via letter from the bonding company.

1. Is your firm a serious interested party in that you intend to submit a bid for this procurement?  Will the current structure of the resulting contract impact your ability to bid?  If so, please explain? See attached draft price/bid schedule.

Note: Draft Price/Bid Schedule is subject to change.

1. If your intent is to bid constructing the project via dredging the ebb shoal offshore, indicate what type of equipment would be used.

Submission Instructions:

Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the work associated with the subject requirement, are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice no later than 23 June 2024 at 3:00 PM, EDT. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice shall be sent to Mr. Guesley Leger via email at Guesley.Leger@usace.army.mil and Ms. Manuela Voicu at Manuela.d.voicu@usace.army.mil.  

Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response under this sources sought synopsis. 

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