Tampa Harbor, Maintenance Dredging, 33-Foot Project, Alafia River Channel and Turning Basin, Hillsborough County, Florida

Tampa Harbor, Maintenance Dredging, 33-Foot Project, Alafia River Channel and Turning Basin, Hillsborough County, Florida

This announcement constitutes a Source 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 SYNOPSIS.  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) 2021 award of the aforementioned project.  The purpose of this synopsis is to gauge 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).  No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to said synopsis or any follow-up information requested.

The Jacksonville District of the US Army Corps of Engineers is seeking interested bidders for a project that consists of dredging shoal material from the Alafia River Channel and Turning Basin. Material will be disposed into DMPF-3D which is located south of Alafia River Channel. The required project depth is 33 and 34 feet with one foot of allowable overdepth. Site dewatering shall take place at DMPF-3D during disposal operations and continue until the requirements of Section 35 20 23 DREDGING have been met. Work also includes environmental species monitoring, turbidity monitoring, bird monitoring, and overall management of disposal operations at DMPF-3D.

The Estimated Magnitude of construction is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.

The project will have an estimated period of performance of 190 calendar days after issuance of Notice to Proceed (NTP).   

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction. The Small Business Size Standard for this project is $30.0 million.

Anticipated solicitation issuance date is on or about 2 June 2021 and the anticipated response date is on or about 1 July 2021.  The official Synopsis citing the solicitation number will be issued on the Beta.SAM Contracting Opportunities Website: https://beta.sam.gov.

Responses to this Synopsis 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.
    

NOTES:

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 Notice no later than 22 April 2021 at 12:00PM, Local Time. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice shall be sent to Ms. Jennifer Carter via email at Jennifer.L.Carter@usace.army.mil and Ms. Claurice M. Dingle at Claurice.M.Dingle@usace.army.mil

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

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