Sources Sought: Maintenance Dredging of the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway Federal Navigation Project at Bellport Bay and Moriches Bay, Suffolk County, New York

Maintenance Dredging of the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway Federal Navigation Project at Bellport Bay and Moriches Bay, Suffolk County, New York
Market Survey

Background Information
The New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) proposes to perform maintenance dredging of the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway (LIIW) Federal Navigation Project at Bellport Bay and Moriches Bay. The proposed maintenance dredging would remove approximately 30,000 cubic yards (CY) of sand with placement along the shoreline of Cupsogue Beach County Park and/or Smith Point County Park. The placement areas are approximately 1.25 to 4.5 miles from the dredging area. Dredging would be required to a depth of -6 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) plus 2 feet allowable overdepth.

SURVEY OF THE DREDGING INDUSTRY
The following confidential survey questionnaire is designed to apprise the Corps of prospective dredging contractors’ project execution capabilities. Please provide your response to the following questions. All questions are in regard to the maintenance dredging of Long Island Intracoastal Waterway Federal Navigation Channel at Bellport Bay and Moriches Bay with placement onto Cupsogue Beach County Park and/or Smith Point County Park.

General
a. Name of firm w/ address, phone, and fax number, point of contact and email address.
b. Identification and verification of the company as a HUB Zone small business firm, or, A Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business firm, or, A Small business firm, A SBA certified 8(a) firm, or, a large business firm.
c. CAGE Code and DUNS Number for the firm.
d. Have you ever worked on dredging and beach placement jobs similar in nature to this project? If so, please describe the project and for whom the work was performed. Identify a point of contact and phone number, as a reference of relevant experience.
e. Have you performed dredging and beach placement along the south shore of Long Island, New York? If so, describe the scope of work of the project and location.
f. What percentage of work (volume of material dredged and placed) can you perform with your own equipment or equipment owned by another dredging contractor?
g. Would you be bidding on this project as a sole contractor, prime contractor with subcontractor(s) or as a joint venture?
h. What is the largest dredging contract, in dollars, on which you were the prime contractor?
i. Is there a dollar limit on the size of contract that you would bid? If so what is that limit?
j. What is your bonding capacity per contract? What is your total bonding capacity?
k. Use of USACE Resident Management System (RMS 3.0) will be required for this dredging contract. Do you have experience using the USACE Resident Management System (RMS 3.0) for delivering Submittals, Daily Dredging reports and Pay Estimates?

The proposed work is anticipated to be performed by utilizing a hydraulic dredge. Additionally, barges, tug boats, pipeline and land based equipment such as dozers, will be needed to perform the work during the dredging and placement activities. The dredging and placement along the shoreline would be required to meet all federal, state, and approved local criteria required by the government agencies having jurisdiction where the dredging and placement sites are located.

Once the contract is awarded, the contractor will be required to commence work within five (5) calendar days after the date of receipt by him of the Notice To Proceed (NTP), and maintain an integrated production rate of at least 2,000 cubic yards per calendar day for the dredging and placement of the dredged sand. The presence of dredging equipment in the channel will impact ship traffic, and it is necessary to maintain this production rate while minimizing the duration of this impact. The proposed work is anticipated to take place in the fall/winter of 2025/2026. The work is estimated to cost between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.

l. Do you have experience applying the USACE EM 385-1-1 (Mar 2024) and all requirements? Safety deficiencies observed on site will require immediate attention and action to meet all applicable safety codes.
m. Would you be willing to bid on the project described? If the answer is No, please explain why not?
Equipment
n. What type of dredge equipment do you own and / or operate that is suitable for the work described? Do you own a hydraulic dredge? Please list each piece of equipment you own and/or operate that is capable of performing dredging and pumping of dredged material for beach placement, i.e. dredges, discharge pipeline (specify quantity in linear feet), booster pumps, dozers, front end loaders, forklifts, and/or other equipment needed for grading the beach. For each Dredge that you list, please specify its size, horsepower, and any other salient characteristics.
o. What length and diameter of discharge pipeline do you have available for use? Do you own the discharge pipeline?
p. Describe your experience with beach placement and beach grading of dredged material?
q. Identify which dredge(s), including support equipment (tug, scows, etc), you would employ on this project. Please list each piece of equipment capable of performing each type of work described, i.e. dredging, transfer, transportation, and final placement of the material. Also, for each dredge, identify the digging depth.
r. Will you be able to meet a production rate of 2,000 cubic yards per calendar day and complete all work required to dredge 30,000 CY of sand with placement along the shoreline approximately 1.25 to 4.5 miles from the dredging area?