Beach Replenishment-Lower Cape May Meadows

                        
This is a Sources Sought Notice and is for information purposes only.       

 THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, intends to award a firm fixed contract that consists of surveying, excavating and placing approximately 164,000 cubic yards of sand within the Lower Cape May Meadows. This project may include Options. Contractor will conduct pre- and post-placement condition surveys.  These are beach survey lines (35 lines) that extend 3,000 feet into the water.  Contractor will also place approximately 164,000 CY of sand.  The sand will be excavated from 2 adjacent areas of the beach at Cape May Point State Park and The Nature Conservancy’s Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge.  The sand will be moved and placed at 2 locations:  the Cove Beach in the City of Cape May (114,000 CY) and Saint Pete’s Beach in the Borough of Cape May Point (50,000 CY).  Contractor will be required to do before and after surveys every 50 feet in the excavation area (101 lines), and every 100 feet in the placement areas (22 lines). These surveys will be to wading depth only.  Contractor will be paid based on the quantity excavated as calculated by the before and after surveys. Solicitation will be issued on or about 31 August 2020 with a bid opening date occurring at least 30 days after the Solicitation.  The period of performance is 150 calendar days.  Estimated cost range of the project is $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.

The NAICS Code for this project is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and the small business size standard is $30.0 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 Frederick Conway, at frederick.conway@usace.army.mil on or before May 3, 2020 at 2:00 PM EST.