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

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Paul District has a requirement for the Fargo Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, Southern Embankment Reach SE-1B.  The Fargo Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, Southern Embankment Reach SE-1B, 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 tie into and extend north from the end of the existing Reach SE-1 embankment approximately ½ mile west of the intersection of CR16 and CR17, to the existing embankment at Diversion Inlet Structure.  The reach also includes a short section of embankment connecting the existing embankment on the northeast side of the Diversion Inlet Structure to the existing embankment at the south end of Reach SE-2A.  The combined total length of the dam embankment is approximately ¾ of a mile.  The dam embankment material will come from a borrow site adjacent to the Diversion Inlet Structure.  The reach also includes relocation of County Roads 16 and 17, including a roundabout at the new intersection of these roads and construction of adjacent ditching.  County Road 17 will tie into the new bridge crossing the Diversion Channel, constructed under a separate contract. The road embankment material will come from a stockpile near the City of Fargo.  The reach also includes street lighting and culverts, and removal of two existing abandoned water lines.

The anticipated magnitude of this project is between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00. 

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project is 237990; Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction with a size standard of $45.0 Million.

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

The solicitation is a Total Small Business set-aside. 

The solicitation is an Invitation for Bid (IFB).

No CD's or hard copies of the solicitation will be available. Offerors are responsible for checking the Contract Opportunities website (https://sam.gov/content/opportunities) for any update(s) to the solicitation.  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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As required by 15 U.S.C. 644(w), the Corps of Engineers’ policy and procedures, as well as past performance information, in regard to definitization of requests for equitable adjustments is found at https://www.usace.army.mil/Business-With-Us/Partnering.