Maintenance Dredging Delaware River Philadelphia to Sea

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, intends to award a firm fixed contract that consists of Maintenance Dredging of the Delaware channel. This project may include Options. Contractor will conduct pre- and post-placement condition surveys for each section. The contractor will be required to request surveys two working days prior to completing or beginning a dredging section. Survey control data sheets will be provided by Survey Branch. All dredging will be performed to the specified required depth plus 1' allowable overdepth. The maintenance dredging shall be performed as contour dredging. The contract will provide for dredging up to 25' outside the channel edge in the Delaware River. Potential work assignments are as follows:
Maintenance Dredging, Delaware River Channel:
WORK ASSIGNMENT              STATION TO STATION                AVAILABLE TO 46’ (CY)          AVAILABLE TO 47’ (CY)
Marcus Hook                             117+000 to 129+000                            650,000                                        800,000
Bellevue/Cherry Island         158+000 to 172+500                            400,000                                        500,000
Deepwater Point                      187+000 to 200+000                            500,000                                        650,000
New Castle                                 225+000 to 237+500                             575,000                                        700,000
 TOTALS                                                                                                           2,125,000                                     2,650,000

Solicitation will be issued on or about 25 July 2020 with a bid opening date occurring at least 30 days after the Solicitation. The period of performance is 120 calendar days. Estimated cost range of the project is $10,000,000 to $25,000,000.
The NAICS Code for this project is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and the small business size standard is $30 Million. [NOTE: Dredging – To be considered small for purposes of Government procurement, a firm must perform at least 40 percent of the volume dredged with its own equipment or equipment owned by another small dredging concern.]
Responses to this Sources Sought Announcement will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. Narratives are requested with the following information, which shall not exceed a total of eight (8) pages.
1. Offeror’s name, address, points of contact with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.
2. Business size/classification to include any designations as Small Business, HUBZone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, 8(a), Women-Owned small businesses shall be indicated on first page of submission.
3. Provide construction bonding level per single contract/task order. Provide the aggregate sum total construction bonding level. Provide both capabilities which must be expressed in U.S. dollars; along with current available bonding capacity.
4. Description of capability to perform similar or same projects listed above, manage subcontractors, prepare and comply with various environmental and construction permits, and capacity to execute this project with other ongoing construction contracts.
5. Past performance/experience on projects of similar scope and magnitude, describing no more than five
(5) projects that are at least 50% construction complete within the past five years. The past performance information should include project title, location, general description of the construction to demonstrate relevance to the proposed projects, the Offeror’s role, dollar value of contract, and name of the company, agency or government entity for which the work was performed with contact information (reference name, phone number and e-mail address).

Responses should be sent to Zaquette Everett, at zaquette.everett@usace.army.mil on or before June
25, 2020 at 2:00 PM EST.