W912BU21-6 MX Dredging PTS-WILH Project

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, intends to award a firm fixed contract that consists of Maintenance Dredging of the Delaware channel. This project may include Options.

Contractor will conduct pre- and post-placement condition surveys for each section. The contractor will be required to request surveys two working days prior to completing or beginning a dredging section. The following work assignment and specification quantities should be advertised with one unit price for the maintenance dredging for Marcus Hook, Deepwater Point, New Castle, Cherry Island/Bellevue Ranges and a second unit price in the base bid for maintenance dredging of Wilmington Harbor/Christiana River.  Option 1, Liston Range, shall be another unit price and add 45 days to the contract period of performance if awarded.  Option 2, Reedy/Baker Ranges, shall be another unit price and add 30 days to the contract period of performance if awarded.  All dredging will be performed to the specified required depth plus 1' allowable over depth. The maintenance dredging shall be performed as contour dredging.  The contract will provide for dredging up to 25' outside the channel edge in the Delaware River. 

Potential work assignments are as follows:

  Maintenance Dredging, Estimated Quantities:

  WORK ASSIGNMENT STATION TO STATION FOR THE DELAWARE RIVER LINE:

                                                                                                AVAILABLE               AVAILABLE

                                                                                                  TO 46’ (CY)             TO 47’ (CY)

  Marcus Hook                 117+000 to 129+000                          750,000                      900,000

Bellevue/Cherry Island  158+000 to 161+750

                                         166+500 to 171+500                          250,000                      350,000

  Deepwater Point            187+000 to 200+000                          750,000                      900,000

  New Castle                     225+000 to 237+500                         750,000                      900,000

  TOTALS                                                                                2,500,000                  3,050,000

WORK ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE CHRISTIANA RIVER LINE ITEM:

                                                                                                AVAILABLE             AVAILABLE

DEPTH +1ft                    ACCPTENCE SECTION            TO DEPTH (CY)   TO OVERDEPTH (CY)

35+1ft                                            AS-1                                    175,000                       200,000

38+1ft                                            AS-2                                    275,000                       315,000

38+1ft                                            AS-3                                    100,000                       115,000

38+1ft                                            AS-4                                    100,000                       120,000 TOTALS                                                                                    650,000                       750,000

OPTIONS/DEPTH         STATION TO STATION                TO DEPTH (CY)     TO OVERDEPTH            

Liston Range (45+1)      278+750 to 283+500 red only;

                                       283+500 to 291+000                          500,000                       600,000      

Reedy/Baker Ranges (45+1) 259+900 to 267+100                  135,000                       235,000     

Solicitation will be issued on or about 29 July 2021 with a bid opening date occurring at least 30 days after the Solicitation. The period of performance is 170 calendar days. Estimated cost range of the project is $25,000,000 to $100,000,000.

The NAICS Code for this project is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and the small business size standard is $30.0 Million (Dredging). [NOTE: Dredging – To be considered small for purposes of Government procurement, a firm must perform at least 40 percent of the volume dredged with its own equipment or equipment owned by another small dredging concern.]

Responses to this Sources Sought Announcement will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. Narratives are requested with the following information, which shall not exceed a total of eight (8) pages.

1. Offeror’s name, address, points of contact with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.
2. Business size/classification to include any designations as Small Business, HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned, 8(a), Women-Owned small businesses shall be indicated on first page of submission.
3. Provide construction bonding level per single contract/task order. Provide the aggregate sum total construction bonding level. Provide both capabilities which must be expressed in U.S. dollars, along with current available bonding capacity.
4. Description of capability to perform similar or same projects listed above, manage subcontractors, prepare and comply with various environmental and construction permits, and capacity to execute this project with other ongoing construction contracts.
5. Past performance/experience on projects of similar scope and magnitude, describing no more than five

(5) projects that are at least 50% construction complete within the past five years. The past performance information should include project title, location, general description of the construction to demonstrate relevance to the proposed projects, the Offeror’s role, dollar value of contract, and name of the company, agency or government entity for which the work was performed with contact information (reference name, phone number and e-mail address).

Responses should be sent to Zaquette Everett, at zaquette.everett@usace.army.mil on or before May 06, 2021 at 1:00 PM EST.