Freshwater Bayou - Lock to The Gulf, Freshwater Bayou Maintenance Dredging #26-2, ED 26-025

This solicitation, identified as W912P826BA017 and titled Freshwater Bayou - Lock to The Gulf, Freshwater Bayou Maintenance Dredging #26-2, is an unrestricted invitation for bid under NAICS code 237990 for a construction project with an estimated value between $10 million and $25 million. The work requires the complete removal and satisfactory disposal of all material above elevation -16.0 MLG from C/L Station 70+00 to C/L Station -210+00 along the Freshwater Bayou Channel, with all dredged material transported and deposited on the Gulf shoreline west of the channel, as precisely defined by five contract drawings and supporting specifications. Performance must be completed within 137 calendar days from the notice to proceed, with the project located in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, under the oversight of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, W07V Endist New Orleans. The solicitation mandates the submission of a bid bond, performance and payment bonds, and a comprehensive set of submittals including a Contractor Quality Control Plan, Health and Safety Plan, Environmental Protection Plan, Traffic Control Plan, Dredge Plant Instrumentation Plan, and adherence to the National Dredging Quality Management Program. All submittals must comply with detailed technical requirements, including survey plotting scales of 1 inch equals 30 feet horizontally and 1 inch equals 5 feet vertically, and all as-built drawings must be delivered in LA State Plane South 1702, NAD 83 / survey feet coordinate system. Bids must be submitted electronically or physically by the deadline of June 18, 2028, and are subject to strict formatting rules: email submissions must be sent to two designated points of contact, include the solicitation number in the subject line, not exceed 35MB in size, and avoid embedded links or HTML content; larger files may be compressed using .zip format. Price responsiveness is a pass/fail criterion, and failure to list unit prices for any item renders a bid nonresponsive. A 10 percent price evaluation preference is applied to qualified HUBZone and small business concerns. Payment will be made on a performance-based basis, requiring contractors to maintain GAAP-compliant financial records and submit detailed payment requests including negotiated values and incurred costs. Contractors must also comply with numerous regulatory requirements including NIST SP 800-17