Rental of a 20-Inch to 24-Inch Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge for Dredging in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida

Rental of a 20-Inch to 24-Inch Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge for Dredging in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida

a. Location of Work: The work is located at various inland and coastal navigation channels in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.

b. The work will primarily consist of maintenance dredging of the navigation channels with dredged material disposed into open water and upland sites.

c. Estimated Cost: $25,000,000 to $100,000,000.

d. Proposed Advertisement Date: 29 June 2017.

e. Proposed Advertisement Time: 30 days.

f. Construction Time: 14 months.

g. Number of Drawings: 0.

h. The work will be on a rental basis and will not be restricted to small business.

i. The contract will be administered by the Irvington Site Office, with Mr. Steve Reid as the COR.

Note No. 1: All prospective contractors and their subcontractors and suppliers must be registered in Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) before they will be allowed to download solicitation information. Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ prior to award of this contract. Solicitation documents will only be available via FedBizOpps. The solicitation will be available only as a direct download. This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM. Neither telephonic, mailed, nor fax requests will be accepted. Registration should be completed one week prior to the issue date. It is therefore the Contractor's responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments to this solicitation. All notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto. NOTE: This solicitation is in .pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.

Note No. 2: All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in paper medium. Electronic medium for the bid submittal documents will not be allowed.

Note No. 3: Critical path method (network analysis system) is required.

Note No. 4: For this job, a small business is defined as having average annual receipts of less than $36,500,000 for the past three years.

Note No. 5: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps). Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc.) are available on the Internet at: https://www.fbo.gov.

Note No. 6: The request for information (RFI) process for bidder inquiries during the advertisement period will be through the ProjNet internet based system, and specifics will be contained in the RFP solicitation package available exclusively from FedBizOpps. Other forms of communicating RFIs to the Government will not be honored. The Government will try to respond to all questions. However, responses may not be furnished to all questions and particularly those received late in the advertisement period (0-10 days prior to bid opening.)