Fiscal Year 21 Brunswick Inner Harbor Maintenance Dredging

Fiscal Year 21 Brunswick Inner Harbor Maintenance Dredging

Solicitation No.: W912HN21B5005

NAICS: 237990

Size Standard: $30M

This is a synopsis if for the Fiscal Year 21 Brunswick Inner Harbor Maintenance Dredging. This acquisition being offered as a 100% Small Business set-aside solicitation and will result in a Fixed Price Contract Award. The magnitude of this requirement per FAR 36.204 is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.

Project Location: Brunswick Harbor is a deep draft navigation project located 70 statute miles south of the Savannah Harbor (GA) and 25 statute miles north of Fernandina Harbor (FL) in Glynn County, Georgia.  The Inner Harbor channel of Brunswick Harbor is 36 feet deep MLLW and 400 feet wide through St. Simon Sound, Brunswick River and East River.

Project Description: The Brunswick Inner Harbor Contract provides construction services, including furnishing personnel, transportation, mobilization and demobilization, equipment and materials required in connection with maintenance dredging.  This contract is traditionally performed with a hydraulic cutterhead dredge and the duration is expected to be two months from time of award.  Up to 500 thousand cubic yards of maintenance material is expected to be removed from the inner harbors.

Brunswick Harbor Inner Harbor is generally dredged in late summer or fall and takes approximately two months to complete.  The dredging in the Brunswick Inner Harbor primarily takes place annually in the East River which includes the East River Turning Basin and the Transition Areas (stations 0+000 to 12+000) leading up to the turning basin and immediately upriver of the basin.  The South Brunswick River (stations 0+000 to 7+000) in the Brunswick Inner Harbor is the other area that requires dredging and is primarily dredged when shoaling become problematic to navigation but is constantly monitored for shoaling.  The Lower Turtle River (station 35+000 to 36+000) in the Brunswick Inner Harbor is another area that requires dredging at this time.  Approximately 295,000 cubic yards of material is removed from the East River annually, approximately 20,000 cubic yards of material is removed from the South Brunswick River and approximately 300 cubic yards  from Lower Turtle River when dredged.  The maintenance material removed from the Brunswick Inner Harbor is placed in the Andrews Island Dredged Material Containment Area located adjacent to both the East River and the South Brunswick River.  Andrews Island is the only confined upland containment area in the Brunswick Inner Harbor.

Advanced maintenance depths and locations for Brunswick Inner Harbor is as follows:

East River, 0+000 to 2+500 project depth is 36’ with 1’ of advanced maintenance

East River, 2+500 to 4+500 project depth is 36’ with 5’ of advanced maintenance

East River, 4+500 to 6+250 project depth is 36’ with 1’ of advanced maintenance

East River, 6+250 to 12+000 project depth is 36’ with no advanced maintenance

South Brunswick River, 0+000 to 7+000 project depth is 36’ with no advanced maintenance

Environmental windows limit the timing of dredging in the Brunswick Inner Harbors.  Environmental restrictions on the Brunswick Inner Harbor include a Least Tern nesting window to where dredged material must not be placed in the Andrews Island confined upland disposal area between the middle of April through the middle of August.

Evaluation Criteria: The contract will be solicited and procure using Sealed Bidding Procedures under FAR Part 14.

NOTE: This solicitation will be issued in electronic format only and is anticipated to be available on or about July 12, 2021. Please note that the bid opening date will be specified in the solicitation when issued. No additional media (CDROM, floppy disks, faxes, etc.) will be provided. Any prospective Offeror must register in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov. After completing SAM registration, interested Contractors and theirsubcontractors must then register at https://www.beta.sam.gov to obtain solicitation documents, plans and specifications for this solicitation. Contractors that have an existing account should be able to use their existing logins to search for the solicitation number once it is released at https://www.beta.sam.gov. It is the Offeror’s responsibility to check the Internet address provided as necessary for any amendments that may be posted to this solicitation.Paper copies of this solicitation will not be available. Other methods of requesting a package will not be honored. Contractual Questions should be forwarded to Contract Specialist, SFC Kassandra Robinson at Kassandra.N.Robinson@usace.army.mil  or to the attention of Contracting Officer, Whittni Hiscox at Whittni.C.Hiscox@usace.army.mil. The contracting office address is 100 West Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah, Georgia, 31401.