Maintenance Dredging, Deleware River, Philadelphia to Trenton

Description of Work: This is a Sources Sought Notice and is for informational purposes only. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS. NO SOLICITATION IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. A Market Survey is being conducted to determine if there are adequate Small Businesses, HUBZone, 8(a), or Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business contractors for the following proposed contract. Contract will consist of maintenance dredging within the project channel of the Fairless Turning Basin. Salient information: a) Dredging will be required to a depth of 40' MLLW plus 1' allowable overdepth, with no side slopes delineated and/or paid for along the basin's east/west berthing land edges and the west channel edge of Newbold Range (box cut); b) Dredging will also be required to a distance of 25' outside the three remaining turning basin edges, with no side slopes delineated and/or paid for; c) This will not be a contour dredging job; d) No end slopes will be specified for this contract; e) Before and after dredging quantities will be computed on the same basis as the foregoing; f) The following restrictions are applicable for this contract: (1) Dredging work must be accomplished by hydraulic pipeline dredge only; (2) Hydraulic Dredging: Kinkora Range (Station 112+439) to Trenton Bridge Range/Upper End of Project, (Station 160+325); g) Due to environmental restrictions, dredging must occur within the window from 15 July 2017 through 31 December 2017; h) The use of hopper and mechanical/bucket dredges will not be permitted under this contract; i) The Money Island Disposal Area which is owned by Waste Management is available for this contract. The contract period of performance is 30 calendar days. The estimated order of magnitude is from $1,000,000.00 to $5,000,000.00. NAICS Code for this project is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and the 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. All interested Small Business, HUBZone, 8(a), or Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business contractors should submit a narrative demonstrating their Specialized Experience in similar type contracts, Past Performance, Key Personnel. Capability statements should include size/classification of your firm, bonding capacity, bonding availability, details of similar projects, and the completion dates, references and contract amounts for the similar projects listed. Narratives shall be no longer than 5 pages. Responses should be sent to Joseph Manney at contact@example.gov to reach this office on or before May 29, 2017 no later than 11:00 a.m.