Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Maintenance Dredging, 44, 45, and 47-Foot Project, Camden County, Georgia

*** BE SURE TO EMAIL RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT TO MANUELA VOICU AND RUTH RODRIGUEZ, EMAILS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT***

This is announcement constitutes a Sources Sought Synopsis.  This announcement seeks information from industry and will only be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR BIDS 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) 2023 award of the aforementioned project.  The purpose of this synopsis is to gauge of 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) on or about 30 Jan 2023. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to said sources sought or any follow-up information requested.

Project work is divided into a Base and two Options as indicated below. For the Base and  Options dredging work, this contract incorporates two feet of allowable overdepth throughout. Work also includes Bird Monitoring and Standby Time.

Base work consists of maintenance dredging the locations to required depths indicated in the table below and shown on the drawings. The placement of the dredged material will be at Disposal Area Crab Island(D/A-C) and Disposal Area 2 (D/A-2) as shown on the drawings and as directed by the Contracting Officer. Additional Base work also includes bird monitoring and standby time.

LOCATION                                                                                                           REQUIRED DEPTH

Station 31+800 to Station 48+175                                                             44-foot, 45-foot and 47-foot

Upper Turning Basin                                                                                                                       45-foot

Site Six North                                                                                                                                     39-foot

Magnetic Silencing Facility (MSF) North                                                                                  44-foot

Explosive Handling Basin                                                                                              44-foot and 47-foot

Site Six Operating Area South and Medium                                                                           45-foot

Auxiliary Repair Dock (ARDM) Yoke Area

Explosive Handling Wharves (EHW)                                                                                          47-foot

Refit Wharves                                                                                                                                    47-foot

Dry Dock Caisson Gate Sill and Dry Dock                                                                                 46-foot

Caisson Gate Mooring Facility

Option A work consists of supplying additional field cut weir riser boards as requested by the Contracting Officer.

Option B work consists of secondary maintenance dredging. The locations and required depths are indicated in the table below and shown on the drawings. The placement of the dredged material will be at Disposal Area Crab Island(D/A-C) and Disposal Area 2 (D/A-2) as shown on the drawings and as directed by the Contracting Officer. Option B work also includes mobilization and demobilization, bird monitoring and standby time.

LOCATION                                                                                                                           REQUIRED DEPTH

Site Six Operating Area South and Medium                                                                           45-foot

Auxiliary Repair Dock (ARDM) Yoke Area

Explosive Handling Wharves (EHW)                                                                                          47-foot

Refit Wharves                                                                                                                                    47-foot

Dry Dock Caisson Gate Sill and Dry Dock                                                                                 46-foot

Caisson Gate Mooring Facility

Site Six North                                                                                                                                     39-foot

Estimated contract performance period:  Commence work not later than (NLT) 60 calendar days after Notice to Proceed (NTP) and complete work NLT 300 calendar days after NTP including the following:

Base: 250 calendar days including commencement (mobilization) and demobilization.

Option A: 5 calendar days concurrent with the Base.

Option B: 50 calendar days.

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

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 $32.5 million. 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 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.

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

DO NOT SUBMIT PROPRIETARY AND/OR BUSINESS CONFIDENITAL DATA.

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 NLT November 26, 2022, at 3:00PM, local time. All responses under this Sources Sought  shall be sent to Mr. Guesley Leger via email at Guesley.Leger@usace.army.mil and Ms. Manuela D. Voicu Manuela.d.voicu@usace.army.mil.

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

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