Oldmans Dredged Material Placement Facility Dike Raising Construction

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)/SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE BEING RELEASED PURSUANT TO FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) PART 10: MARKET RESEARCH.

This RFI is issued solely for informational, market research, and planning purposes only. It does not constitute an Invitation for Bid (IFB), Request for Quote (RFQ), or Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFQ/IFB/RFP in the future. No solicitation document exists at this time. Issuance of this notice does not constitute any obligation on the part of the Government and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. In addition, respondents are advised that the United States Government is under no obligation to pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this RFI. At this time, proprietary information is not being requested, and respondents shall refrain from providing proprietary information in response to this RFI. The specifications for this requirement will only be available upon solicitation issuance.

Requirement:

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer (USACE), Philadelphia District (NAP), anticipates a requirement for Oldmans Dredged Material Placement Facility Dike Raising Construction project. The estimated magnitude of this project is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000.

Description:

Contract work consists of a large-scale earthwork project to construct approximately 12,000 linear feet of earthen embankments at the Oldmans Dredged Material Placement Facility (DMPF) adjacent to the Delaware River in Salem County, NJ. Approximately 500,000 cubic yards of dredged materials must be moved from within the approximately 290-acre site, compacted in lifts and final graded to meet the lines and grades required. Significant experience and expertise with large scale earthwork projects and access to a significant amount of earthmoving equipment and labor will be required to complete all work within an 18-month period of performance. The soils that comprise the available dredged materials are predominately fine-grained in nature (i.e., contain silts and clays of low and high plasticity), with some sand and gravel in limited areas. As such, these soils are highly susceptible to changes in moisture content which may limit construction activities during periods of wet or freezing weather. Contractor must be able to deal with problems that include seepage of water into excavations, softening of exposed subgrade soils, loss of soil shear strength, etc. It is anticipated that the existing dredged material proposed to construct the dikes will require consistent and active moisture conditioning to achieve a moisture content near or at optimum to achieve the specified compaction requirements. Consequently, prudent earthwork techniques such as disking, stockpile management, aeration, promoting positive drainage, limiting construction traffic and allowing for drying days must be utilized to facilitate fill placement and compaction activities. It should be anticipated that protection of exposed excavation subgrades will need to be exercised to minimize disturbance. The contract documents will include available date from the latest subsurface investigations and associated geotechnical laboratory testing.  A licensed Geotechnical Engineer will be required for the evaluation of this data and assistance in preparation of bid documents as well as work plans that will be required of the successful bidder. The work will also require the installation of three steel sluice structures and associated 30-inch steel outfall pipes for site drainage. The sluice structures and pipes will be provided as Government Furnished Materials

The estimated period of performance will be 550 calendar days.

The anticipated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction, with a SBA Size standard of $45.0M. The Product Service Code (PSC) is Y1KF - Construction of Dredging Facilities.

Survey:

The Government is issuing this notice to determine a competitive basis. This is not a solicitation and the items listed herein are subject to change or eliminated from the requirement. This survey is for market research purposes only. Only prospective contractors capable of performing this type of work should respond to this Request for Information.

Your response to this survey is requested by 2:00 PM Eastern Time, October 22, 2025. Please send by email to Eric Leach at Eric.A.Leach@usace.army.mil and Connor Struckmeyer at Connor.A.Struckmeyer@usace.army.mil. Include in the title "Sources Sought - Oldmans Dredged Material Placement Facility Dike Raising Construction” as the subject line in email communications. All submitted responses must be in either Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf format. 

1. Name of your firm:

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3. Point of Contact, Phone Number, and E-mail Address:

4. List three (3) projects completed within ten (10) years of the date of this notice that demonstrates experience, as a prime contractor or subcontractor, related to the type of construction provided in the description above.

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5. Are you a Small Business classified under the above NAICS code? If so, do you fall into a sub-category (e.g. HubZone, 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.)?

6. For this requirement, what percentage of this work would you subcontract (reference FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting? 

7. What type of work requirements will you subcontract out to small businesses?

8. Do you plan to subcontract to only small businesses?

9. If the answer to question 8 is “yes”, are these small businesses with a sub-category (e.g. e.g. HubZone, 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.)

10. What is your bonding capacity per contract?

11. What is your aggregate bonding capacity per contract?

12. If this requirement is advertised, do you anticipate submitting a proposal?