Initial Sitework for the Fish Passage at the New Savannah Bluff Lock & Dam

This solicitation is an Invitation For Bid (IFB). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District intends to award a contract on the basis of this notice. Project Location: The project is located at the New Savannah Bluff Lock & Dam near the cities of Augusta, Georgia and North Augusta, South Carolina. The existing New Savannah Bluff Lock & Dam (NSBLD) is located on the Savannah River in Richmond County, Georgia and Aiken County, South Carolina, about 13 miles southeast of the City of Augusta downtown area. Background: The NSBLD project was authorized by the 1930 and 1935 Rivers and Harbors Acts for the sole purpose of improving commercial navigation on the Savannah River between the upper limits of the Savannah Harbor and Augusta, Georgia. The dam consists of a lock and gated spillway. The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) includes a mitigation feature to construct a fish passage and floodplain bench at the NSBLD site. The nature-like rock weir fish passage was designed to address passage of the entire suite of native aquatic life in the Savannah River while addressing hydraulic, geomorphic, stability and safety issues based on proven concepts in nature-like fish passage. This project is the first order of work for the larger Fish Passage construction project. Project Description: The project will reroute the existing electrical utilities at the New Savannah Bluff Lock & Dam from the footprint of the future area for a floodplain bench and tying them into one or more temporary power poles at or near the dam. This is required to provide power to the dam throughout the future contract for construction of a Fish Passage at the New Savannah Bluff Lock & Dam. The power and communication lines crossing over water must be at least 52 feet above the water surface. The scope of this project includes demolition (removal) of existing restrooms, fish cleaning station and picnic shelters in the area of proposed floodplain bench and the pump house near the entrance road. This project requires protection of the structures (walls and crypts) around the New Savannah Cemetery from damage during construction. This protection includes repaving of Lock and Dam Road from the entrance of the park to the western edge of the proposed floodplain bench. Project also includes the installation of guardrails on Lock and Dam road around the Butler Creek Bridge. Evaluation Criteria: The contract will be solicited and procured using FAR 14 Sealed Bidding Procedures. Note: Please note that the bid opening date is specified in the solicitation. No additional media (CD-ROM, floppy disks, faxes, etc.) will be provided. Any prospective Offeror must register in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov. After completing SAM registration, interested Contractors and their subcontractors must then register at https://beta.sam.gov in order to obtain solicitation documents, plans and specifications for this solicitation. Contractors that have an existing account should be able to use their existing logins to search for the solicitation number once it is released at https://beta.sam.gov. It is the Offeror's responsibility to check the Internet address provided as necessary for any amendments that may be posted to this solicitation. Paper copies of this solicitation will not be available. Other methods of requesting a package will not be honored. Contractual Questions should be forwarded to Contract Specialist, Jennifer Cavanagh at jennifer.s.cavanagh@usace.army.mil or to the attention of Contracting Officer, Whittni Hiscox at Whittni.C.Hiscox@usace.army.mil.