Presque Isle Beach Nourishment

12 APRIL 2019 - INFORMATIONAL UPDATE
NOTE: This is an informational update only. This information does not need to be acknowledged in any proposal submissions. This does NOT change any terms or conditions of this solicitation.
INFORMATION: There will be a teleconference available during the bid opening. Dial-in information is as follows:
USA Toll-Free: 888-675-2535
ACCESS CODE: 4776889
Security Code: 1234
END OF 12 APRIL 2019 Informational Update

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Solicitation is amended to include a new bid sheet. Closing date is also extended to 12 April at 1300 EST..

The pre-solicitation has been changed to Solicitation status..

It has been determined that competition will be limited to 8(a) firms within the geographical area serviced by the SBA Western Pennsylvania District Office, SBA Buffalo District Office, and SBA Cleveland District Office, and other 8(a) construction firms with a bona fide place of business within the geographical competitive area, and the assigned NAICS code. All other 8(a) BD Participants are deemed ineligible to submit offers.
Please notice that the SBA Buffalo District Office has been added..

It has been determined that competition will be limited to 8(a) firms within the geographical area serviced by the SBA Western Pennsylvania District Office and SBA Cleveland District Office, and other 8(a) construction firms with a bona fide place of business within the geographical competitive area, and the assigned NAICS code. All other 8(a) BD Participants are deemed ineligible to submit offers..

Presolicitation has been changed back to active.
Reminder that Solicitation release is dependent on the approval from the Small Business Adminstration (SBA) Pittsburgh District, since this is a competitive 8(a) solicitation.

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Notice has been deleted..

This is only a Presolicitation Notice: Presque Isle Beach Nourishment, Erie, PA.
This is NOT a request for proposal or invitation for bid; this is for INFORMATIONAL purposes only to make industry aware of the upcoming requirement. A response is not required at this time. Questions will not be answered until official solicitation is issued.

The USACE Buffalo District is currently preparing a solicitation to award a contract for a project at the Presque Isle Sate Park area of Lake Erie to provide beach nourishment locate in Erie, PA.
Scope of Work:
Work consists of, but is not limited to: purchase, delivery and placement of sand at designated locations along the beaches of Presque Isle State Park (PISP) peninsula for the purposes of beach nourishment. The sand shall be transported from an existing site stockpile, and additional quantities supplied by the Contractor from off-site sources (Type S sand). Work shall also include excavating sand from designated locations along the beaches (tombolo work) and delivering/spreading that sand at designated beach locations. All off-site sand shall be delivered and off-loaded at the North Pier which is equipped with mooring piles for docking delivery vessels and off-loading sand. Sand shall not be trucked to the site.

Work shall be sequenced in strict accordance with environmental date restrictions. Due to the presence of a designated critical habitat area (DCHA) for the federally endangered shorebird species, Piping Plover, there is an environmental restriction against working in certain site areas between 01 April and 02 July each year. If the Piping Plover shorebird species is observed on Presque Isle, then the restriction within the DCHA could be extended until 31 August. The DCHA extends over approximately 30% of the peninsula. The Contractor is responsible for performing the required piping plover monitoring before and during nourishment following an established monitoring protocol.

Sand Requirements:
Type S Beach sand fill shall be obtained from an approved commercial supplier and delivered to the site via vessel to the North Pier which is situated on the peninsula, adjacent to the Erie Harbor federal navigation channel. Type S sand fill shall be reasonably well-graded, sound, hard, free of organics and other foreign and objectionable materials, and be approved by the Contracting Officer. Material furnished from an upland source shall be mined from clean, felsic-rich sand and gravel pits containing predominantly quartz and feldspar minerals, with silica content greater than 55%. In addition, no more than 2 percent of the total passing the #100 and #200 sieves shall have carbonate mineralization. It shall meet the gradation requirements listed below.

U.S. Standard Percent Finer
Sieve Size by Weight

3/8 Inch 100
No. 4 90-100
No. 8 70-100
No. 16 45-83
No. 30 20-69
No. 50 10-34
No. 100 0-5
No. 200 0-2

TYPE OF CONTRACT AND NAICS: An IFB (Invitation for Bid) is planned for one (1) Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract. The North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) for this effort is 237990 - Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction.

This will be a Competative 8(a) Set-Aside procurement. Offerors shall be registered as a 8(a) business via the (SBA) Small Business Administration to be eligible for award.

The magnitude of this project is More than $10,000,000. Bonding will be required for this project; any offeror shall have the proper capabilities.

The site visit will be announced when the solicitation is issued.

Please be advised that this requirement may be delayed, revised, or cancelled at any time before award.

SOLICITATION WEBSITE: The official solicitation and any subsequent amendments or updates, when posted, will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at Federal Business Opportunities website, http://www.fbo.gov. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued. Telephone and Fax requests for
this solicitation will not be honored. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download the solicitation for this project, contractors are required to register at the Federal Business Opportunities website at http://www.fbo.gov. Solicitation Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing the solicitation and any amendments by the Government prior to closing. It is the Offerors responsibility to monitor the website for any amendments or changes to the solicitation.

REGISTRATIONS:

Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database:

System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.

No responses/questions will be addressed until solicitation is issued.

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