Beach Nourishment, Cape May Inlet to Lower Township, Cape May, NJ

Description of Work: This is a Sources Sought Notice and is for information purposes only. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAS, 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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, intends to award a firm fixed contract that consists of beach nourishment for Cape May Inlet to Lower Township:

Contractor will conduct pre-placement condition surveys and pump/place approximately 392,000 CY of sand from a borrow area approximately 2.6 miles south of the Cape May Inlet jetties onto the beach at 2 locations: Area 1, the US Coast Guard Training Center (approx 350,000 CY) and Area 2, Wilmington Ave (approx 42,000 CY). Options to place additional sand from the same borrow area to achieve the full project design template at these same two beach locations will also be included. The options will be as follows: 3 options for 50,000 CY each (Area 1) and 1 option for 10,000 CY (Area 2). Sand must come from the offshore borrow area. Trucking in sand will not be permitted under this contract.

An Award for the Contract is anticipated for September 2019. Estimated cost range of the project is between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required for 100% of contract award. The NAICS Code for this project is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and the small business size standard is $27.5 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 Emily Pyatigorsky at emily.pyatigorsky@usace.army.mil on or before 8 April 2019 at 3:00 PM EST.

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