Justification and Approval for Other Full and Open Competition: FY26 - FY30 San Francisco District Beneficial Use Site

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, has issued a sole-source Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC) under solicitation SPN-LS2026-6 for the offloading and placement of approximately two million cubic yards of dredged material annually from the Sacramento and Stockton Deep Water Ship Channels to the Montezuma Wetlands Restoration Project in California, covering Fiscal Years 2026 through 2030. The contract is awarded to Montezuma Wetlands, LLC, as the only responsible source capable of providing upland beneficial use placement services, as determined under 10 U.S.C. § 3204(a)(1) and FAR 6.103-1(b), following market research conducted through a November 2025 SAM.gov notice that yielded only one viable offeror after alternative sites were deemed technically infeasible. The procurement is not set aside for any socioeconomic category, and no competitive evaluation factors, technical ratings, or trade-off methodologies apply; award is based solely on the unique capability of the site and the determination of fair and reasonable pricing, although the exact unit rates and total contract value are redacted as (b)(4) information. Performance is constrained by an annual environmental work window from June 1 through November 30 to comply with biological opinions and the Regional Dredged Material Management Plan, which mandates beneficial reuse of at least 70% of dredged material to fulfill the Corps’ environmental obligations and repay prior ocean disposal debt. Contract administration is managed by the San Francisco District with key personnel including Contracting Officer Mary Fronck, Project Manager Alfred Paniccia, and Legal Counsel Allison Carmody, though no formal Contracting Officer’s Representative is designated. Packaging, preservation, marking, invoicing procedures, and MIL-STD requirements are not addressed, as the focus remains on environmental compliance and site access rather than physical handling. The contract structure allows for 8–10 task orders annually without explicit options, and no security clearances, organizational conflict of interest mitigation clauses, or key personnel substitution requirements are specified. All documentation reflects administrative certification of sole-source justification rather than traditional contract clause application, and no UEI, CAGE code, or socioeconomic status information for the contractor is provided.