Wellfleet Harbor Maintenance Dredging

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is issuing a PRESOLICITATION NOTICE for a maintenance dredging of the Wellfleet Harbor Federal Navigation Project (FNP) located in Wellfleet, MA.  This is an UNRESTRICTED announcement is to determine the interest, availability, and capability of HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, and Small Business concerns as described below.  The NAICS code for this procurement is 237990.  The project is planned to be issued on or about June 2020.  The construction will occur in the fall/winter of 2020 and is expected to take approximately 3 months to complete.  The estimated construction cost is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.

The Wellfleet Harbor FNP consists of an 10 foot deep Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) by 125 feet wide from the  outer harbor extending 0.8 mile northeasterly to the town landing and anchorage basin of the same depth with the dimensions of 800 feet by 500 feet at the head of the channel. 

The proposed work consists of dredging approximately 162,000 cubic yards (cy) (including required dredge and overdepth) of fine grained sands and silts from the 10 foot entrance channel and 10 foot anchorage of the Wellfleet Harbor FNP. The 10 foot channel and 10 foot anchorage will be dredged to the authorized project depth, plus allowable one foot allowable overdepth.  The mechanical dredge will remove material from the shoaled portions of the Wellfleet Harbor channel/anchorage, and transport the material in scows to the Cape Cod Bay Disposal Site (approximately 15 nautical miles away to the west). The allowable dredging window is between Oct 1 and December 15, 2020.  Additional work includes removal of derelict moorings.  The work will require significant coordination around the tide cycles.   

In order to accomplish all dredging requirements within the specified dredging window it is expected that the Contractor will need to meet a production rate of 77,000 CY per 30 calendar days.  Environmental coordination and permitting has been completed by the U.S. Army of Engineers, New England District.

Additionally, the Government contemplates inclusion of Definitive Responsibility Criteria (similar to the below) in the resulting solicitation. The Government welcomes industry comments on whether the below criteria are appropriate and achievable.

Interested firms should demonstrate their project experience, by providing two (2) projects within the last ten years, which meet the following requirements:

• Dredging by mechanical means in tidal waters with depths of 10 feet or less, demonstrating a minimum production rate of 65,000 cubic yards in one consecutive 30-day period.

• Experience with transportation and placement of dredged material at an offshore ocean disposal site during the months of October through March.

This announcement is for information and planning purposes only and should not be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose. There is not a request for proposals at this time, the solicitation requirements and documents will include instructions for submission and the response date, will be available on or about June 2020.  Neither telephonic, mailed nor faxed requests for hard copies of this solicitation will be accepted.  The solicitation will only be available online; in order to download the solicitation offerors must access the Federal Business Opportunities website (www.fbo.gov).  Additional questions may be emailed to the Contract Specialist at Guesley.Lege@usace.army.mil.

This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes - it does not constitute a Request for Quote (RFQ)/Invitation for Bid (IFB)/Request for Proposal (RFP). This notice does not commit the U.S. Government to contract for any supply or service.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is issuing a Sources Sought Announcement for a maintenance dredging of the Wellfleet Harbor Federal Navigation Project (FNP) located in Wellfleet, MA.  This announcement is to determine the interest, availability, and capability of HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, and Small Business concerns as described below.  The NAICS code for this procurement is 237990.  The project is planned to be issued on or about June 2020.  The construction will occur in the fall/winter of 2020 and is expected to take approximately 3 months to complete.  The estimated construction cost is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.

The Wellfleet Harbor FNP consists of an 10 foot deep Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) by 125 feet wide from the  outer harbor extending 0.8 mile northeasterly to the town landing and anchorage basin of the same depth with the dimensions of 800 feet by 500 feet at the head of the channel. 

The proposed work consists of dredging approximately 162,000 cubic yards (cy) (including required dredge and overdepth) of fine grained sands and silts from the 10 foot entrance channel and 10 foot anchorage of the Wellfleet Harbor FNP. The 10 foot channel and 10 foot anchorage will be dredged to the authorized project depth, plus allowable one foot allowable overdepth.  The mechanical dredge will remove material from the shoaled portions of the Wellfleet Harbor channel/anchorage, and transport the material in scows to the Cape Cod Bay Disposal Site (approximately 15 nautical miles away to the west). The allowable dredging window is between Oct 1 and December 15, 2020.  Additional work includes removal of derelict moorings.  The work will require significant coordination around the tide cycles.   

In order to accomplish all dredging requirements within the specified dredging window it is expected that the Contractor will need to meet a production rate of 77,000 CY per 30 calendar days.  Environmental coordination and permitting has been completed by the U.S. Army of Engineers, New England District.

Additionally, the Government contemplates inclusion of Definitive Responsibility Criteria (similar to the below) in the resulting solicitation. The Government welcomes industry comments on whether the below criteria are appropriate and achievable.

Interested firms should demonstrate their project experience, by providing two (2) projects within the last ten years, which meet the following requirements:

• Dredging by mechanical means in tidal waters with depths of 10 feet or less, demonstrating a minimum production rate of 65,000 cubic yards in one consecutive 30-day period.

• Experience with transportation and placement of dredged material at an offshore ocean disposal site during the months of October through March.

Interested firms should submit a capabilities package to include the following: business classification (i.e. HUBZone, etc.), type of equipment the firm is proposing to use on the project, and two (2) example projects performed by the firm in the last ten (10) years (including Points of Contact for those projects) showing experience with the proposed equipment at the production rate listed above. Please indicate the team subcontractor(s) (if any), including their prior experience and qualifications meeting the same qualifications listed above, which will be used to support the bidder's effort. Firms may use subcontractor experience to demonstrate experience with the requirements, but the role and work performed by each team member (prime and subcontractors) on projects demonstrating that team member's experience shall be the same as the role for that team member for this project.  Bid bond will need to be provided with the bid. 

Responses are limited to twenty pages and due by February 06, 2020.  Responses should be addressed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, 696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742-2751, ATTN: Guesley Ledger, or electronically to Heather.Skorik@usace.army.mil.  The Government will not pay for any material provided in response to this market survey nor return the data provided.  This notice is for information purposes only and is not a request to be placed on a solicitation mailing list nor is it a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a solicitation.  The results of this survey will be considered to be in effect for a period of one year from the date of this notice.