Maintenance Dredging Delaware River Philadelphia to the Sea PA, NJ and DE

Place of Performance: U.S. Army Engineer District, Philadelphia, Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-3390 Description of Work: This is a Sources Sought Notice and is for information purposes only. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS. A Market Survey is being conducted to determine if there are adequate HUBZone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned, and Small Business contractors for the following proposed work. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, intends to award a firm fixed contract that consists of maintenance dredging for the Delaware River. The contract consists of maintenance dredging of the Delaware River, Philadelphia to the Sea. All dredging will be performed to the specified required depth plus 1' allowable over depth. The Maintenance dredging shall be performed as contour dredging. The contract will provide for dredging up to 25' outside the channel edge in the Delaware River. The 24-Hour production rates for the maintenance dredging shall be Markus Hook 25,000 CY, Cherry Island 20,000 CY, Deepwater Point 20,000 CY and New Castle 20,000 CY. Delaware dredging work assignment station to station Marcus Hook 117+000 to 129+000 available to 43' (550,000) available to 44' (750,000). Bellevue/Cherry Island 158+000 to 172+500 available to 45' (400,000) available to 46' (500,000). Deepwater Point 187+000 to 200+000 available to 45' (400,000) available to 46' (500,000). New Castle 225+000 to 237+500 available to 46' (500,000) available to 47' (500,000). a. Pedricktown North and Killcohook Area #1. Drawings for the disposal areas will specify that the contractor shall ensure the discharge end of the dredge pipe extends 40 feet past the interior crest of the containment dike. This forty-foot length of pipe shall be sufficiently and safely supported along the entire length of the pipe by timber cribbing, a compacted earthen embankment, or other means approved by the Contracting Officer's Representative. b. The specifications of the sluice discharge pipes shall require that all three pipes located at the Pedricktown North CDF will be temporarily extended to reach the mean low water line at a minimum during the duration of the contract. Option 1 shall include: 1) line item for an interim mobilization; and, 2) line item for a cubic yard unit cost to remove 165,000cy. The entrance channel shall be dredged to a depth of 38ft + 1ft allowable over depth in MLLW. The disposal area for this option will be Pedricktown North. Should the option be awarded, the contractor will be required to complete Marcus Hook Range, Bellevue/Cherry Island Ranges, Deepwater Point Range, and New Castle Range prior to mobilizing to the Christiana River entrance channel adjacent to Cherry Island Range. The 24-Hour production rate for the maintenance dredging of Christiana River Entrance Channel shall be 17,000. The contract period of performance is 120 calendar days after receipt of the Notice to Proceed. An Award for the Contract is anticipated for August 2018. Estimated cost range of the project is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required for 100% of contract award. The NAICS Code for this project is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and the small business size standard is $27.5 Million. [NOTE: Dredging - To be considered small for purposes of Government procurement, a firm must perform at least 40 percent of the volume dredged with its own equipment or equipment owned by another small dredging concern.] Responses to this Sources Sought Announcement will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. Narratives are requested with the following information, which shall not exceed a total of eight (8) pages. 1. Offeror's name, address, points of contact with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. 2. Business size/classification to include any designations as Small Business, HUBZone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, 8(a), Women-Owned small businesses shall be indicated on first page of submission. 3. Provide construction bonding level per single contract/task order. Provide the aggregate sum total construction bonding level. Provide both capabilities which must be expressed in U.S. dollars; along with current available bonding capacity. 4. Description of capability to perform similar or same projects listed above, manage subcontractors, prepare and comply with various environmental and construction permits, and capacity to execute this project with other ongoing construction contracts. 5. Past performance/experience on projects of similar scope and magnitude, describing no more than five (5) projects that are at least 50% construction complete within the past five years. The past performance information should include project title, location, general description of the construction to demonstrate relevance to the proposed projects, the Offeror's role, dollar value of contract, and name of the company, agency or government entity for which the work was performed with contact information (reference name, phone number and e-mail address). Responses should be sent to Kellee J. Haye at kellee.j.haye@usace.army.mil on or before 05 June 2018 at 3:00 PM EST.