Maintenance Dredging & Scour Hole Repairs at Piers 11-13, JEB Little Creek/Fort Story, Virginia Beach, Virginia

This notice does NOT constitute a request for proposal, request for quote, or invitation for bid.  The intent of this synopsis is to make notice of a proposed contract action for

This project includes Maintenance Dredging & Scour Hole Repairs at Piers 11-13, JEB Little Creek/Fort Story, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

The work includes Maintenance Dredging of the JEB Little Creek Channel and Desert Cove CB-125 Wet Slip, repair of 4 existing sea floor scour holes located in the berth areas of Piers 11, 12 and 13 using part of the material dredged from the channel. Aditional work includes armoring the sea floor using rip-rap stone to prevent future erosion along with incidental related work shown on plans and specifications. Additional material dredged from the channel (not used for filling scour holes) and material dredged from the CB-125 Wet Slip shall be legally disposed

off-site at an approved disposal facility. The project schedule will allow for dredging work to be performed 24 hours/7 days per week and will require a minimum daily production rate of 2,500 CY per day.

The completion time for this contract is 180 calendar days after award.

The appropriate Northern American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 237990 - Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities2, with a Small Business Size Standard of $30,000,000.

This solicitation is being advertised as "Unrestricted" for full and open competition and will be

Solicited utilizing Sealed Bidding procedures outlined in FAR Part 14.103-2. Award will be made to the responsible bidder whose bid, conforming to the invitation for bids, will be most advantageous to the Government, considering only price and the price related factors included in the invitation.

In accordance with FAR 36.204, the magnitude of construction for this project is between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000.

A Sources Sought notice was issued on 11 July 2022 to determine the capability of small businesses to perform the requirement.  The Sources Sought notice yielded three (3) Small Business responses.  Based upon analysis of the data considered, and in accordance with FAR 19.501(c), the Contracting Officer has determined that there is not a reasonable expectation that an adequate number of Small Business firms would respond to or be qualified to perform the requirements of this solicitation.  NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic’s Office of Small Business Programs concurred with this decision on 28 July 2022.

The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be issued on or about 12 August 2022.  All documents will be in Adobe PDF file format and downloadable from the Sam.gov website.  The official address to the solicitation is https://www.sam.gov.  Contractors are encouraged to register for the solicitation when downloading from the website.  Only registered contractors will be notified by email when amendments to the solicitation are issued.  A free Acrobat Reader, required to view the PDF files, can be downloaded from the Adobe website.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  All prospective Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM).  You must have an active registration in SAM to do business with the federal government.  For additional information, go to https://www.sam.gov.

Questions regarding this notice should be directed to Holly Snow at holly.r.snow.civ@us.navy.mil.