Beach Nourishment, Brigantine Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet Brigantine Island Atlantic County, New Jersey.

This is a Sources Sought Notice and is for information purposes only. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS. A Market Survey is being conducted to determine if there are adequate HUBZone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned, and Small Business contractors for the following proposed work. The Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, is interested in awarding one (1) Firm Fixed Price Contract for Beach Nourishment, Brigantine Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet Brigantine Island Atlantic County, New Jersey. The work consists of a base bid to place approximately 405,000 cubic yards of beachfill along the Atlantic Ocean coastline of Brigantine Island, Atlantic County, New Jersey. This contract requires open ocean dredging and hydraulic placement of beachfill. The project area is entirely within the municipality of Brigantine City. The contract work may also consist of up to 12 separate options to place additional amounts of beachfill per option, if awarded, in locations within and outside of the Base bid areas. Options 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, if awarded, will be for quantities of 250,000, 125,000, 50,000, 50,000 and 25,000 cubic yards, respectively. Options 6, 7, 8, and 9, if awarded, will be for additional structural monitoring and quantities of 100,000, 50,000 and 25,000 cubic yards respectively. Options 10, 11 and 12, if awarded, will be for quantities of 100,000, 50,000 and 25,000 cubic yards, respectively. The project work for the Base Bid and Options, if awarded, also may include, in addition to beachfill: the construction or repair of pedestrian, vehicle, and handicap dune crossovers; planting dune grass; and installing sand fencing. The only approved borrow area for the beachfill material is located within the vicinity of Brigantine Inlet. Estimated cost range of the project is $10,000,000.00 to $25,000,000.00. The period of performance is 240 calendar days for the Base and Options. An Award for the Contract is anticipated for July 2017 with a Notice to Proceed issued after August 15 due to environmental windows. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required for 100% of contract award. The NAICS Code for this project is 237990 and the small business size standard is $36.5 Million. Responses to this sources sought announcement will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. All interested HUBZone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned, Small Business contractors should submit a narrative demonstrating their experience in the specified work, as well as, their technical capabilities. Please include size/classification of your firm, bonding capacity (single project and aggregate), details of similar projects, completion dates, references and contract amount. Narratives shall be no longer than FIVE (5) pages. Responses should be sent to Leonard Buhrow at Leonard.E.Buhrow@usace.army.mil and Michelle.J.Bertoline@usace.army.mil on or before 6 March 2017 4:00 p.m. EST.