Mississippi Valley Division Civil Works Areas of Interest Commercial Solutions Openings

The Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is soliciting innovative commercial solutions through a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) authorized under 10 U.S.C. 3458 and implemented via DFARS 212.70, targeting private sector capabilities that address critical civil works challenges in navigation and flood risk management. This solicitation, identified as W912P926SC001, is open for submissions until May 31, 2027, and is designed to identify novel technologies, products, or services that either fill existing capability gaps or deliver significant advancements in seven specific Areas of Interest: maintenance of authorized channel dimensions, materials and repair methods for navigation structures, comprehensive above- and below-water imaging of structures, locating subaqueous subsurface objects, sedimentation prediction modeling for navigable waterways, navigation and flood risk management project delivery, and non-structural dry floodproofing. All submissions must be electronic, limited to three pages in PDF format using 12-point Arial font, and must exclude any classified or proprietary information. Offerors are required to register in the System for Award Management (SAM) with a matching address, and must provide only a Rough Order Magnitude (ROM) estimate of cost, not a detailed pricing structure, since the CSO is a preliminary, non-binding solicitation. Proposals will be evaluated by a peer review panel of scientific and technological experts based on the innovation of the solution, its feasibility in addressing the stated agency challenges, and its potential to enhance mission effectiveness, with funding availability also playing a role in selection. Selected offerors will be invited into an RFP phase, during which the Government will collaborate with them to develop a detailed Performance Work Statement or Scope of Work, define deliverables, establish data rights, and incorporate necessary contractual clauses on a case-by-case basis, including those related to security and commercial treatment. All subsequent contracts resulting from this CSO will be firm-fixed price, and all solutions—including research and development—are to be treated as commercial items under federal acquisition rules. The Contracting Officer will use market research under DFARS 212.204 to ensure price reasonableness prior to award, and only those submissions that demonstrate genuine innovation—defined as either entirely new technologies or novel applications of existing ones—are eligible. The procuring office is based in St. Louis, Missouri, with primary contact information provided for submissions and inquiries, and the NAICS code 541370