Moccasin Bend Riverbank Protection

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Nashville District, is conducting market research to seek information from potential contractors for streambank protection on the Tennessee River at Moccasin Bend at Chattanooga, TN. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. This is a Request for Information (RFI) and is for planning purposes only as defined by FAR 15.201. This is not a solicitation announcement, nor is it an Invitation for Bid (IFB), Request for Proposal (RFP), or Request for Quote (RFQ). No solicitation is currently published. This request does not obligate the Government in any contract award. The Government will not pay for the provision of any information, nor will it compensate any respondents for the development of such information. Do not submit cost proposals or cost information. Response to this notice is strictly voluntary and will not affect any firm's ability to submit a proposal if and when a solicitation is issued. The information gathered will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. Replies to responses, comments, or suggestions will not be provided. The scope of the proposed project consists of construction activities to emplace riprap, aggregate, and geotextile fabric to stabilize a section of eroding river bank. Emplacement can only be done from the water, no shore access is permitted. The project area is located on the Tennessee River adjacent to Brown's Ferry Landing at Moccasin Bend Archaeological District in Chattanooga, TN. The major components of this contract include: 1) Mobilization and demobilization of floating plant and excavation equipment; 2) Excavation below the waterline of no more than 600 CY, and removal of any fallen trees at the shoreline; 3) Transport and emplacement of riprap and aggregate (no more than 2500 tons), and geotextile (no more than 2500 SY); 4) Enable inspection of excavated material for archaeological artifacts by National Park Service personnel. The estimated performance period for this contract is 128 days. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code applicable to this acquisition is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction. Small Business size is $36.5M. The magnitude of this project is between $250,000 and $500,000.The following information is requested from Contractors interested as a prime contractor in this project: 1. Firm's name, addresses, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address. 2. Firm's interest in providing a bid on the pending solicitation once issued. 3. Experience: Evidence of capabilities to perform comparable work in streambank protection using floating plant. 4. Firm's capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity. 5. Firm's business category and business size (Large Business, Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone), Women Owned, etc.) 6. Firm's Joint Venture information, if applicable. 7. Cage Code and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI, formerly known as DUNS) number 8. Bonding capacity Please submit responses no later than 10:00 am (Central Time) on 1 March 2018. Responses shall be emailed to contact@example.gov . Please include the title "RFI- Moccasin Bend Streambank Protection" as the subject line in email communications. All attachments must be in either Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf format.