Indiana shoreline erosion control, located in laporte county, indiana

This Pre-Solicitation Notice is being issued by the United States Army Corps of Engineers - Chicago District to inform interested/potential contractors of the District's imminent issue of an Invitation for Bid Package for its construction project, entitled "INDIANA SHORELINE EROSION CONTROL."

PROJECT INFORMATION: The project consists of the placement of sand of approximately 15,000 tons of clean beach grade sand. The sand will be placed along the beach at locations shown on the drawings. The project also includes material testing and placement of a permanent access road and timber bollards.

PROJECT LOCATION:
US Hwy. 12 & LaPorte/Porter County Line Rd.
Michigan City, IN 46360

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Competition for this acquisition is set aside for HUBZone Small Business Concerns. The Classification Code for this procurement is North American Industry System Code 237990, with a small business size standard in dollars of $36.5M. The magnitude of cost for construction is between $100,000 and $500,000.

The Invitation for Bid (IFB) Package will be downloadable from the INTERNET ONLY. The project specification files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Interested Offerors can download the IFB Package from: http://www.fbo.gov. The IFB Package will be available at the aforementioned Internet site on or about August 8, 2014, with bids due on or about September 8, 2014.
IN THE CASE OF A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE DATES PUBLISHED IN THIS NOTICE AND THOSE CALLED OUT IN THE IFB DOCUMENT, THE DATES IN THE IFB DOCUMENT OVERRIDES THOSE PUBLISHED HEREIN THIS NOTICE; THIS IS RELATIVE TO THE IFB ISSUANCE DATE AND THE DUE DATE FOR BIDS.

In order for contractors to be awarded contracts with the Department of Defense, the contractor must be registered in the System for Contract Management (SAM); Contractors can access the SAM database for free at http://www.sam.gov. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed price construction contract from this acquisition. FAXED OR ELECTRONIC BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Request for solicitation packages made by telephone, fax or e-mail will not be honored. The Point of Contact for this acquisition is Kim M. Beard at (312) 846-5378.

** Please include Solicitation Number W912P6-14-B-0012 on all correspondence. **