FY16 Grays Harbor Inner Harbor Maintenance Dredging, Grays Harbor, WA

FOR INFORMATION ONLY:
This Synopsis/Pre-Solicitation Notice is ONLY A NOTIFICATION that a solicitation is anticipated and forthcoming. All questions regarding this Synopsis/Pre-Solicitation should be submitted in writing via email to Ms. Mueller at the email indicated above.

Construction Project:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Seattle District requires maintenance dredging to project depth (-36 ft MLLW) plus two feet of allowable paid overdepth. There will be additional 2 feet of advance maintenance within Cow Point and the Turning Basin. Dredging will occur within the inner harbor with disposal at the open water Pt. Chehalis and South Jetty placement sites. Approximately 800,000 CY of material will be dredged from primarily Cow Point, Cow Point Turning Basin, and Hoquiam reaches, with the possibility of dredging from the North Channel and Crossover reaches. Dredge work windows are from
1 January through 14 February 2016 (possibly into March if a work extension is granted) and 16 July through mid-September 2016.

The magnitude of construction is estimated to be between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. The resulting contract will be firm-fixed-price.

Solicitation number W912DW-16-B-0002 will be posted to the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website, www.fbo.gov, on or about 18 November 2015. The solicitation will be an Invitation for Bids. Bids will be due no sooner than 30 calendar days after actual solicitation issuance date. See the solicitation for details about bid opening. The NAICS code for this procurement is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction - Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities, and the associated small business size standard is $27,500,000 in average annual receipts. The solicitation will be issued as 100% Set-Aside for Small Business concerns.

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