Fargo Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, Southern Embankment Reach SE-1

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Paul District is planning to solicit a requirement for the Fargo Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, Southern Embankment Reach SE-1.  The Fargo Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, Southern Embankment Reach SE-1, is located in Cass County, North Dakota, and consists of an earth dam embankment with gravel road on top, topsoiled and seeded side slopes, and ditches on both sides.  Portions of the embankment slopes will have turf reinforcement mat.  The dam embankment will extend from a point just south of CR16 and ½ mile west of CR17 in a southwesterly direction.  The total length of the dam embankment is just over 2 miles.  The majority of the embankment material will come from a government provided borrow site approximately 1/4 mile north and east of the intersection of CR 16 and CR 17.

Portions of the embankment follow the alignments of existing roads and will require reconstructing or modifying the existing road embankments.  Traffic control will be required on impacted local roads during construction.  The project will also include construction of farm entrances, replacement or construction of new corrugated metal pipe and concrete culverts, construction of cast in place concrete head walls with flap gates, and construction of roadway gates.

It is estimated that this project will be solicited in mid-January 2021.  The anticipated magnitude of this project will be between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. 

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project will be 237990; Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction with a size standard of $39.5 Million.

The resulting contract shall be a Firm, Fixed-Price contract.

The solicitation shall be a Total Small Business set-aside. 

The solicitation will be an Invitation for Bid (IFB).

This synopsis is not a request for quotes, proposals or bids. This is a notice that a solicitation for a competitive acquisition for the award of one firm-fixed price contract is intended to be issued via Contract Opportunities (https://beta.sam.gov/search?index=opp) in the near future. The specifications will be detailed in the solicitation. This announcement is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract.

This is a pre-solicitation notice, and as such, any additional information as to the size and/or scope of the project will not be available until the issuance of the IFB.

No CD's or hard copies of this notice or the solicitation will be available. Offerors are responsible for checking the fbo.gov website for any update(s) to the Notice. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offeror's inability to access the document posted at the referenced website.

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