Mississippi River, New Orleans Harbor Cutterhead Dredge Rental Contracts No 1-2017, (OM-17-030)

The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge on a rental basis for the subject contract. Work will be performed in the New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River and adjacent lock forebays of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The estimated value of this work is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The solicitation will issue on or about 30 January 2017, and a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment. This is an UNRESTRICTED procurement. NAICS Code: 237990. The solicitation documents for this procurement will be posted on FedBizOps (FBO). You can access these files from a link located on FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). You will need the adobe acrobat reader for .pdf files (www.adobe.com) in order to open most files posted by the New Orleans District. You are encouraged, for marketing purposes, to register as an Interested Vendor in FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). This can be done by clicking on the solicitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerors are also encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administrations Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerors must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: http://www.sam.gov. The Contract Specialists for this solicitation is Bridget Bonnecarrere at 504-862-2876 (email Bridget.M.Bonnecarrere@usace.army.mil) or Bradley Cox at 504-862-1083 (e-mail Bradley.A.Cox2@usace.army.mil).