--Maintenance Dredging, U.S. Navy Submarine Base, Kings Bay Inner Channel, Camden County, Florida

This announcement constitutes a Sources Sought Synopsis. This is not an Invitation for Bid or a Request for Proposal. The responses to this Synopsis will be used as a Market Research tool in order to identify Small Business HubZone firms for the purpose of determining how the upcoming solicitation will be advertised. This announcement is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. The Jacksonville District of the US Army Corps of Engineers is contemplating a project for work that consists of maintenance dredging of approximately 605,000 CY of shoal material at Kings Bay, U.S. Navy Submarine Base, Inner Channel, Camden County, Georgia. The contract will require placement of dredged material in the Crab Island Disposal Area located near dredging area. Work also includes turbidity monitoring, endangered species observer/monitoring, and possible standby time for Naval Ship Operations. The contract will consist of Base and three Option Bid Items. The base bid consists of dredging approximately 450,000 CY from the channel and includes turning basins. Option A consists of dredging 20,000 CY from the Explosives Handling Wharves. Option B consists of dredging approximately 60,000 CY from the Site Six Operating Area and Option C consists of dredging approximately 75,000 CY from the area adjacent to the Refit Wharves. Please provide a Statement of Capability (SOC) stating your skills, experience, knowledge, and equipment required to perform the specified type of work. This SOC should be a maximum of five (5) pages and include, at a minimum: (1) your intention to submit a bid on this project when it is formally advertised; (2) business type (i.e. SBA Certified 8(a), HubZone, and/or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business); (3) brief description of your companys capabilities including your capability to mobilize construction equipment and materials onto an island; (4) size and type of dredge; (5) whether your firm owns or leases the dredge and if the dredge is leased, the name of the lessor and their business size; (6) brief references of jobs your firm has performed within the past three years on similar type work (include as a minimum the project title, type of work, and the magnitude of construction); and (7) your firms bonding capability. NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO SUBMIT A BID ON THIS PROJECT WHEN IT IS FORMALLY ADVERTISED, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS. If we do not receive an adequate number of qualified Small Business HubZone respondents, the solicitation shall be issued on a Small Business Set-Aside basis. Responses to this Sources Sought Synopsis must be received not later than 17 February 2009 and shall be sent to the attention of Mr. Beau Corbett by fax at +1 (555) 000-0000; via e-mail to contact@example.gov; or by mail to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Contracting Division, CESAJ-CT-C, 701 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville, Florida 32207. The submission of this information is for planning purposes only. The Jacksonville District Corps of Engineers does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Request for Information nor otherwise pay for the information solicited. DO NOT SUBMIT PROPRIETARY AND/OR BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL DATA. NAICS Code is 237990 and the Small Business size standard for construction is $20 mil.