Flood Control, MR&T, Indefinite Delivery – Indefinite Quantity Contract, 2026 Stone Placement, Mississippi, Atchafalaya, and Red Rivers, and Old River Control Channels, CEMVN (ED 26-026)

This solicitation, identified by number W912P826BA024, is for an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, to perform stone placement operations along the Mississippi, Atchafalaya, Red Rivers, and Old River Control Channels in Louisiana. The contract has a ceiling value of $25 million with a guaranteed minimum of $500,000 and spans a two-year ordering period, during which task orders will be issued for specific stone placement activities including dike paving, repairs, subaqueous paving, key construction, and stockpiling using specified grades of stone. Bids are due as sealed proposals, evaluated on a lowest-price basis, with failure to provide complete unit and extended prices for any line item rendering the bid non-responsive. All pricing is binding, while quantities shown are for evaluation only, and travel and lodging costs must be distributed across line items. The contract requires compliance with extensive technical specifications contained in sections covering general requirements, quality control, environmental protection, and construction procedures, as well as adherence to Corps standards outlined in Appendix D and other referenced documents. The contract mandates performance bonds and payment bonds at 100% of the contract value, and requires the presence of a qualified Project Manager on-site throughout the work. Contractors must submit detailed documentation including environmental protection plans, traffic control plans, quality control procedures, and construction schedules, and must register all administrative data with the Resident Management System within seven days of award. Inspection and acceptance are governed by strict protocols requiring the Contractor’s Quality Control Manager to verify material compliance, notify the Contracting Officer’s Representative 24 hours prior to testing, and deliver samples for Government acceptance testing to the ERDC Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Final acceptance requires a formal inspection scheduled 14 days in advance, with potential billing to the Contractor for additional Government inspection costs if work is incomplete. The contract includes mandatory clauses addressing subcontracting plans with deviations and alternate clauses, security prohibitions, convict labor restrictions, Buy American requirements, and cybersecurity safeguards, along with specific provisions for the Wide Area WorkFlow system for invoicing, annual representations through SAM, and a 2% federal excise tax withholding on payments to foreign persons. All submissions must be delivered electronically, comply with size and security restrictions, and avoid embedded links or HTML content that could compromise USACE servers.