Construction Services for Improvement Dredging of the Point Judith Harbor, Rhode Island Federal Navigation Project

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District (NAE) is issuing an Invitation for Bid for the improvement dredging of the Point Judith Harbor Federal Navigation Project (FNP) located at Narragansett, Rhode Island. This procurement will be 100% Small Business Set-Aside requiring a mechanical dredge to perform the work. The NAICS code for this procurement is 237990 with a size standard of $30M. Construction is expected to take approximately 2 months to complete. Any responsible source meeting the required standards may submit a bid to be considered by the New England District. The general scope of this project involves project improvements at Point Judith Harbor FNP consists of two features: (1) widening the existing 15-foot deep Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) 150-foot-wide 700-foot-long west bulkhead channel at the Port of Galilee by 50 feet for a new total channel width of 200 feet and (2) extending the channel northeasterly about 1200 feet at a depth of -11 feet MLLW with a width of 150 feet. The proposed work consists of dredging approximately 30,200 cubic yards (cy) (including required dredge and over depth) of mixed grained sands from the 15-foot channel widening (with a two-foot allowable over depth) and the 11-foot channel extension (including a one-foot allowable over depth). The mechanical dredge will remove material from the channels transport the material in scows to a nearshore placement site offshore of Matunuck Beach, about 2.5 miles west of the Point Judith inlet, in waters 15 to 18 feet deep MLLW. The available dredging window is between October 15, 2022, and January 31, 2023. Neither telephonic, mailed nor faxed requests for hard copies of this solicitation will be accepted. The solicitation will only be available online; in order to download and submit a proposal/bid for the solicitation offerors must registered in the System for Award Management (https://sam.gov) and the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (https://piee.eb.mil/). All responsible sources may submit a bid which shall be considered by the New England District. Additional questions may be emailed to the Contract Specialist at heather.m.skorik@usace.army.mil. *Visit 'https://piee.eb.mil/sol/xhtml/unauth/search/oppMgmtLink.xhtml?solNo=W912WJ22B0015' to obtain more details.*