Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, Broward County Water Preserve Areas, Contract 2, C-11 Impoundment and Mitigation Area A, Broward County, Florida

VIRTUAL INDUSTRY DAY SPECIAL NOTICE: W912EP25Z0013 This announcement constitutes a Special Notice. This announcement seeks information from industry and will only be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SPECIAL NOTICE. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. This is a SAVE-THE-DATE special notice for a virtual industry day event on 4 February 2025 at 9:00am EST. Please note: DRAFT plans and specifications have been uploaded to the SAM.gov website under Special Notice ID W912EP25Z0012. All interested Offerors are required to access SAM.gov for future updates. Please view registration information and details below. The presentation slides and list of attendees will be made available and posted to the subject special notice on SAM.gov after the conclusion of the event. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District will be holding a Virtual Industry Day event to gauge the interest, capabilities, and qualifications of various members of the Construction Community, to include Small Businesses, and to also provide information and obtain feedback from interested Offerors prior to issuance of the official solicitation. This requirement is for fiscal year (FY) 2025 award of the construction of the C-11 Impoundment and Mitigation Area A as part of the Broward County Water Preserve Areas (BCWPA), one of the elements of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). NAICS Code 237990: Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction Small Business Standard: $45 million Magnitude of Construction: Over $500 million Project Description The Broward County Water Preserve Area (BCWPA), Contract 2 project consists of a portion of the overall C-11 Impoundment project. Contract 2 consists of construction of dam and levee embankment, a mitigation area, water control structures, environmentally sensitive area (ESA) systems, lake backfill, drainage conveyance, ancillary features, and associated clearing, grubbing, planting, borrow, and material processing. Contract 2 is the second of three construction phases (combined with an initial land clearing Contract 2.1 and future Contract 3) to complete the overall C-11 Impoundment component of the BCWPA project. The overall completed C-11 Impoundment will be an above-ground earthen reservoir targeted to have a total storage of 4,600 acre-feet with an effective interior area of approximately 1,053 acres and a normal pool water storage depth of approximately 4.7 ft. The Contract 2 dam embankment (D-511) will have an approximate height of 15ft (crest elevation of 18.8 ft NAVD88). The Contract 2 portion of D-511 embankment will include roughly 4,800 ft of slurry wall along the southern alignments between stations 111+00 to 146+00 (east) and stations 204+00 to 218+00 (west). The slurry wall will be 41 ft tall (EL 6.0 ft NAVD88 to EL -35.0 ft NAVD) with a typical width of 2.5 ft. The proposed Mitigation Area - A, is located north of the impoundment. It will 113 acres of wetland marsh. Water levels within the mitigation area will fluctuate approximately 1.0 ft above average ground elevation (5.3 ft NAVD88). The levees surrounding the mitigation area will have an approximate height of 3 ft (crest elevation of 7.3 ft NAVD88). Contract 2 includes 12 total Water Control Structures: - Gated Culverts S-506A, S-508B, S-508D, and S-511 - Ungated Culverts S-500A, S-505E, S-506B, S-508A, and S-509 - Fixed, Broad-crested Weirs S-505B, S-505C, and S-505F There are two environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs) which are to be protected during construction and ultimately excluded from the project by means of embankment alignment. The ESAs will be protected from disturbance during construction and will be avoided by completed project features. Contact 2 includes a requirement to backfill the existing Central Lake and an existing borrow area. These features are existing quarry pits estimated to be up to 55 feet deep and filled with water. Backfill of the Central Lake and Borrow Area will primarily consist of onsite muck material. However, the Contractor will be provided approximately 10,800 cubic yards of stockpiled limerock aggregate, located adjacent to SW 26th Street and the proposed construction staging area, which is approved to be placed in Central Lake. Contract 2 will require continuous stormwater management and conveyance of an approximate two square-mile drainage area north of the project site, which flows southward through the project site, plus any stormwater generated within the Contract 2 limits for the duration of the contract. Since stormwater flows will ultimately need to pass south through the future Contract 3 project limits for discharge into the C-11 Canal, stormwater management will include the following control requirements: - Stormwater system will convey a 100-year storm to the existing A/5 Canal outfall at the C-11 Canal. - Contractor will construct a temporary shallow drainage diversion ditch from the eastern C-511 Canal to the existing A/5 canal. The diversion ditch will be located along the boundary between the Contract 2 and Contract 3, in a zone of temporary construction limit for future resumption by others. - Contractor must not construct S-505F broad-crested weir until the eastern section of C-511 and the temporary diversion ditch to the existing A/5 canal are complete. Other project features and activities include clearing, grubbing, planting, borrow, material processing, boat ramps, soil cement embankment armoring, emergency stockpiles, instrumentation and monitoring stations, wetland preservation/protection, erosion control, and debris disposal. In preparation for the formal solicitation, please see the draft plans and specifications posted under W912EP25Z0012. Interested parties are highly encouraged to review the Draft documents and submit any questions via ProjNet. Firm's response to this Special Notice shall be limited to 10 pages and shall include the following information: 1. Firm's name, address, point of contact, phone number, website, and email address. 2. Firm's interest in submitting a proposal on the solicitation when advertised. 3. Firm's capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity (include firm's capability to execute comparable work performed within the past 10 years from the date of this Special Notice. Firm should provide at least two examples which, at a minimum, include the following: Brief description of the project Customer name Timeliness of performance Customer satisfaction Dollar value of the project Emphasis should be on projects that included (1) construction of earthen embankments (2) construction of soil cement, (3) construction of mass concrete structures (4) management of surface and groundwater in areas with an elevated groundwater table, and (5) cutoff (slurry) wall construction. If your firm is a Small Business, be sure you understand the performance of work requirements for your specific socioeconomic category. i.e. SB, 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, or HUBZone. 4. Firm shall identify their Small Business classification and Small Business Size. Small Business Small Disadvantage Business 8(a) Small Business SDVOSB WOSB HUBzone 5. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, firms should address the structure of such arrangements to include Joint Venture information, if applicable - existing and potential. 6. Firm's Bonding Capability (construction bonding level per contract and aggregate construction bonding level, both expressed in dollars) via letter from bonding company. 7. Project Labor Agreement (PLA) - On 4 February 2022, an Executive Order (EO) was issued requiring large construction projects valued at $35 million or larger to utilize PLAs. The EO mandates that all contractors and subcontractors be a party to a labor agreement with one or more labor organizations. Due to the magnitude of this project, the EO is applicable to this acquisition. Although the EO has not yet been incorporated into the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), it is likely that by the time this requirement is solicited, PLAs will be required. Please provide feedback regarding how the requirement for a PLA will impact your interest in submitting a proposal in response to the planned solicitation. PLA Executive Order for reference: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/02/04/executive-order-on-use-of-project-labor-agreements-for-federal-construction-projects/ Event Dates: Tuesday, 4 February 2025 Event Location: Virtual via WebEx Presentation - https://usace1.webex.com/meet/ligaya.m.lowe Join by phone: +1-844-800-2712 US Toll Free +1-669-234-1177 US Toll Access code: 2826 544 5906 Event Schedule: 9:00am EST Event Registration Details and Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed project are invited to submit a capabilities statement and a response the questionnaire on this Special Notice by no later than February 3, 2025 at 12:00PM, EST. All responses under this Special Notice shall be sent via email to Ligaya Lowe at ligaya.m.lowe@usace.army.mil and Manuela Voicu at manuela.d.voicu@usace.army.mil. Your email subject line should be addressed as "Industry Day Registration (Company Name) - W912EP25Z0013, BCWPA Contract 2, C-11 Impoundment" to ensure the request is handled in a timely manner. All interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed project are also invited to request a breakout session with the Government on a first come, first serve basis following the Virtual Industry Day presentation with the following timeslots as follows: 1030-1115 1130-1215 1330-1415 1430-1515 1530-1615 Important note for Breakout sessions: The Government is seeking your feedback to the draft Plans and Specifications posted under W912EP25Z0012. It is requested that you submit a capabilities statement and any questions your agency has for the Government ahead of the breakout session and by February 3, 2025 via email to Ligaya Lowe at ligaya.m.lowe@usace.army.mil and Manuela Voicu at manuela.d.voicu@usace.army.mil. NOTES: DO NOT SUBMIT PROPRIETARY AND/OR BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL DATA. All responses to this Industry Day Special Notice will be evaluated and used in determining acquisition strategy. Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response under this Special Notice. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COST ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO SAID NOTICE, ATTENDANCE AT THE VIRTUAL INDUSTRY DAY EVENT OR ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION SUBSEQUENTLY REQUESTED. You must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, go to www.sam.gov. For additional information visit the website for the Federal Service Desk (www.FSD.gov) which supports SAM or contact them at 866-606-8220 for assistance.