Construction Operations for the Indiana Harbor Canal(IHC), Confined Disposal Facility(CDF), East Chicago, Indiana

PRE‐BID MEETING & PROJECT SITE VISIT

A pre‐bid meeting with a site visit to follow will be held for this project beginning at 10 a.m. (Central Daylight Time) on Tuesday August 23, 2016. The meeting location is 3500 Indianapolis Boulevard, East Chicago, IN 46312.

At the pre‐bid meeting, Government representatives will highlight specific contract requirements. The objective is to provide an information exchange between potential bidders and the Government to avoid the possibility of misinterpretation of the contract requirements.

The Corps of Engineers strongly encourages all potential bidders to attend the pre‐bid meeting and, in the interest of making the meeting more meaningful, prospective bidders are urged to present any written questions concerning the project bid documents, bidding, and construction requirements or other related matters prior to the pre‐bid meeting. Send written questions, by EMAIL to Megan Manis at megan.r.manis@usace.army.mil.

Written questions may be submitted at the beginning of the meeting and oral questions may be submitted from the floor, will only be addressed if they are clarifications of information provided in the solicitation and in subsequent amendments issued before the scheduled prebid meeting and site visit. Answers, interpretations, and decisions made at the meeting will not become official unless and until verified by an amendment to the solicitation issued prior to the receipt of bids.

Following the meeting, prospective bidders will be permitted to inspect the site where services are to be performed and to satisfy themselves as to all general and local conditions that may affect the cost of performance of the contract to the extent such information is reasonably obtained.

This Pre-Solicitation Notice is being issued by the United States Army Corps
of Engineers - Chicago District to inform interested/potential contractors of the District's imminent issue of a Request for Proposal Package for its construction project, entitled "Construction Operations for the Indiana Harbor Canal (IHC), Confined Disposal Facility (CDF), East Chicago, Indiana."

PROJECT INFORMATION: This project involves construction operations at IHC, CDF, which consists of mechanical dredging of sediment within the IHC; hydraulically disposing of sediment within the upland CDF, and providing construction management services to the facility for the life of the planned Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contract.

Indiana Harbor is located on the southwest extent of Lake Michigan, the CDF is located in East Chicago, Indiana. This project has unique and complicated components, including significant regulatory reporting requirements due to historical contamination of the CDF site and open Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) status, and the dredging and disposal of Toxic Sediment and Control Act (TSCA) regulated sediment, among other requirements.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Competition for this acquisition is UNRESTRICTED to business size. The Classification Code for this procurement is North American Industry System Code 237990, identifying a small business size standard in dollars of $36.5M. The planned contract type is firm-fixed price, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity.

The magnitude of cost for construction is between $25,000,000 and
$100,000,000.

The Request for Proposal (RFP) Package will be downloadable from the
INTERNET ONLY. The project specification files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Interested Offerors can download the RFP Package from: http://www.fbo.gov. The RFP Package will be available from this Internet site on or about August 12, 2016, with technical and price proposal due 30 days following the issuance of the RFP.


IN THE CASE OF A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE DATES PUBLISHED IN THIS NOTICE AND THOSE CALLED OUT IN THE RFP DOCUMENT, THE DATES IN THE RFP DOCUMENT OVERRIDES THOSE PUBLISHED HEREIN THIS NOTICE; THIS IS RELATIVE TO THE RFP ISSUANCE DATE AND THE DUE DATE FOR PROPOSALS.

In order for contractors to be awarded contracts with the Department of Defense, the contractor must be registered in the System for Contract Management (SAM); Contractors can access the SAM database for free at http://www.sam.gov. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed price construction contract from this acquisition.

FAXED OR ELECTRONIC PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Request for solicitation packages made by telephone, fax or e-mail will not be honored. The Point of Contact for this acquisition is Megan Manis at 312-846-5494.

Please include Solicitation Number W912P6-16-R-0031 on all correspondence.

This Pre-Solicitation Notice is being issued by the United States Army Corps
of Engineers - Chicago District to inform interested/potential contractors of the District's imminent issue of a Request for Proposal Package for its construction project, entitled "Construction Operations for the Indiana Harbor Canal (IHC), Confined Disposal Facility (CDF), East Chicago, Indiana."

PROJECT INFORMATION: This project involves construction operations at IHC, CDF, which consists of mechanical dredging of sediment within the IHC; hydraulically disposing of sediment within the upland CDF, and providing construction management services to the facility for the life of the planned Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contract.

Indiana Harbor is located on the southwest extent of Lake Michigan, the CDF is located in East Chicago, Indiana. This project has unique and complicated components, including significant regulatory reporting requirements due to historical contamination of the CDF site and open Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) status, and the dredging and disposal of Toxic Sediment and Control Act (TSCA) regulated sediment, among other requirements.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Competition for this acquisition is UNRESTRICTED to business size. The Classification Code for this procurement is North American Industry System Code 237990, identifying a small business size standard in dollars of $36.5M. The planned contract type is firm-fixed price, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity.

The magnitude of cost for construction is between $25,000,000 and
$100,000,000.

The Request for Proposal (RFP) Package will be downloadable from the
INTERNET ONLY. The project specification files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Interested Offerors can download the RFP Package from: http://www.fbo.gov. The RFP Package will be available from this Internet site on or about July 11, 2016, with technical and price proposal due 30 days following the issuance of the RFP.


IN THE CASE OF A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE DATES PUBLISHED IN THIS NOTICE AND THOSE CALLED OUT IN THE RFP DOCUMENT, THE DATES IN THE RFP DOCUMENT OVERRIDES THOSE PUBLISHED HEREIN THIS NOTICE; THIS IS RELATIVE TO THE RFP ISSUANCE DATE AND THE DUE DATE FOR PROPOSALS.

In order for contractors to be awarded contracts with the Department of Defense, the contractor must be registered in the System for Contract Management (SAM); Contractors can access the SAM database for free at http://www.sam.gov. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed price construction contract from this acquisition.

FAXED OR ELECTRONIC PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Request for solicitation packages made by telephone, fax or e-mail will not be honored. The Point of Contact for this acquisition is Pamela J. Brown at (312) 846-5372.

Please include Solicitation Number W912P6-16-R-0031 on all correspondence.