Maintenance dredging fort pierce harbor 28-foot and 30-foot projects & shore protection project fort pierce beach renourishment 2025, ST. Lucie county, florida

This is announcement constitutes a Source Sought. This announcement seeks information from industry and will only be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SOURCES SOUGHT. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. 

The Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking interest from prospective bidders for a potential fiscal year (FY) 2024 award of the aforementioned project.  The purpose of this sources sought is to gauge interest, capabilities, and qualifications of various members of the Dredging Community, to include Small Businesses, as the Government must ensure there is adequate competition amongst the potential pool of responsible contractors. 

The proposed project will be a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract. The Jacksonville District anticipates the issuance of an Invitation for Bid (IFB). No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to said sources sought or any follow-up information requested.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:

Project work includes maintenance dredging within Fort Pierce Harbor. Beach compatible material will be placed into the Fort Pierce Beach project area identified below, while all non-beach compatible material will be placed into the Fort Pierce Ocean Dredge Material Disposal Site (ODMDS), located five nautical miles southeast of the Fort Pierce Harbor entrance. Project work also includes construction of a beach berm along approximately 7,000 feet of shoreline immediately south of Fort Pierce Inlet between Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Range Monuments R-34 and T-41. Remaining beach compatible sand for the Fort Pierce Beach portion of the project will be dredged from Capron Shoal, located approximately four miles southeast of the project site. Work on the beach must be completed by May 15 between R-37 and T-41 and by May 30 between R-34 to R-37. Due to the extensive hardbottom areas located offshore of the fill area, offshore pipeline access to the beach site is prohibited. Offloading to the beach will be done inside Fort Pierce Inlet just north of the South Jetty. A staging area and beach access to the beach placement area is located at the end of Seaway Drive and near the south jetty offloading area. Work also includes but is not limited to environmental species monitoring, sea turtle trawl sweeping (hopper dredges only), turbidity monitoring, beach tilling, munitions and explosives of concern construction support (offshore dredging only), and vibration control and monitoring.

The Estimated Magnitude of construction is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000.

The project will have an estimated period of performance of 185 calendar days after receiving notice to proceed.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 237990, Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities. The Small Business Size Standard for this project is $37.0 million.

Anticipated solicitation issuance date is on or about 26 September 2024 and the anticipated bid opening date is on or about 28 October 2024. The Synopsis citing the solicitation number will be issued on the SAM Contracting Opportunities Website: at https://.sam.gov/.

NOTE: U.S. COAST GUARD CERTIFIED DREDGE IS REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE WORK.

Responses to this Sources Sought shall be limited to 5 pages and shall include the following information:

1. Company/Contractor name, address, point of contact, phone number and e-mail address.
2. Company’s interest in bidding on the subject requirement when issued.
3. Company’s capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity (include company’s capability to execute comparable work performed within the past 10 years).  Company should provide at least 3 examples which, at a minimum, include the following:
   1. Brief description of the project
   2. Customer name
   3. Customer satisfaction
   4. Timeliness of performance
   5. Dollar value of the completed projects
4. Offeror shall identify their Small Business classification and Small Business Size

_ Small Business

_ Small Disadvantage Business

_ 8(a) Small Business

_ HUB Zone

_ SDVOSB

            _ WOSB

1. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, firms should address the structure of such arrangement include Joint Venture information, if applicable – existing and potential.
2. Bonding Capacity (construction bonding level per contract and aggregate construction bonding level, both expressed in dollars) via letter from the bonding company.

1. Will your firm participate in the solicitation of this consolidated requirement?
2. Do you see any negative impact to competition the consolidation of these two projects into one solicitation? 
3. What impediments, if any, will prevent your firm to submit a bid if these projects are consolidated in one solicitation?
4. Can this work be completed with a single dredge type or will multiple dredge types be required?
5. What is the proposed equipment to clear the channel to the required depth of 28 and 30 feet MLLW?
6. What is the proposed equipment to excavate offshore borrow area?
7. Is there sufficient time to complete beach placement (beach compatible material from Fort Pierce Harbor and material from offshore borrow source) by May 30, 2025, if awarded by January 14, 2025 and NTP issued by 29 January 2025?
    

NOTES:

DO NOT SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO BID ON THIS PROJECT.

DO NOT SUBMIT PROPRIETARY AND/OR BUSINESS CONFIDENITAL DATA.

To be considered small for the purposes of this Government procurement, a firm must perform/dredge, with its own equipment or equipment owned by another Small Business concern, at least 40 percent of the volume dredged.

Submission Instructions:

Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the work associated with the subject requirement, are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice no later than 29 November 2023 at 3:00 PM, EDT. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice shall be sent to Mr. Guesley Leger via email at Guesley.Leger@usace.army.mil and Ms. Manuela Voicu at Manuela.d.voicu@usace.army.mil.  

Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response under this sources sought synopsis. 

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