Calcasieu River and Pass, 2015 Maintenance Dredging, Bar Channel Hopper Dredge Rental Contract No. 2-2015, Cameron Parish, Louisiana (OM-15-126)

The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped self-propelled trailing suction-type hopper dredge on a rental basis for the removal and satisfactory disposal of shoal material in the Atchafalaya River Bar Channel (Station 700+00 to Station 1355+00), St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. This demonstration project requires the dredge to be capable of performing agitation dredging by pumping directly overboard (bypassing the hopper). The hopper must perform at the same slurry velocity at the dragarm as if the dredge material was pumped into the hopper. Work may be required in other areas of the New Orleans District and in areas of both the Galveston and Mobile Districts. The estimated value of this work is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The solicitation will issue on or about 08 September 2015, and a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment. This is an UNRESTRICTED procurement. NAICS Code 237990. The solicitation documents for this procurement will be posted on Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI). You can access these files from a link located on FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). You will need the adobe acrobat reader for .pdf files (www.adobe.com) in order to open most files posted by the New Orleans District. You are encouraged, for marketing purposes, to register as an Interested Vendor in FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). This can be done by clicking on the solicitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerors are also encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administrations Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerors must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: http://www.sam.gov. The Contract Specialists for this solicitation are Bridget Bonnecarrere at 504-862-2876, by e-mail at bridget.m.bonnecarrere@usace.army.mil and/or Bradley A. Cox at 504-862-1083 or by e-mail at bradley.a.cox2@usace.army.mil.

The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped self-propelled trailing suction-type hopper dredge on a rental basis for the removal and satisfactory disposal of shoal material in the Calcasieu River Bar Channel, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Work may be required in other areas of the New Orleans District and in areas of both the Galveston and Mobile Districts. The estimated value of this work is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The solicitation will issue on or about 08 September 2015, and a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment. This is an UNRESTRICTED procurement. NAICS Code 237990. The solicitation documents for this procurement will be posted on Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI). You can access these files from a link located on FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). You will need the adobe acrobat reader for .pdf files (www.adobe.com) in order to open most files posted by the New Orleans District. You are encouraged, for marketing purposes, to register as an Interested Vendor in FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). This can be done by clicking on the solicitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerors are also encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administrations Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerors must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: http://www.sam.gov. The Contract Specialists for this solicitation are Lydia A. Quillens at 504-862-2125, by e-mail at lydia.a.quillens@usace.army.mil and/or Bradley A. Cox at 504-862-1083 or by e-mail at bradley.a.cox2@usace.army.mil.