Y--FY08 Swinomish Channel, Clamshell Maintenance Dredging with open water Disposal, Skagit County, Washington

The Seattle District, US Army Corps of Engineers requires maintenance clamshell dredging of approximately 80,000 cubic yards of sediment from Swinomish Navigation Channel. All dredged material shall be disposed at the Rosario Strait unconfined, open water disposal site managed by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Contractor-furnished beneficial use disposal sites for the dredged material resource will also be considered. The estimated cost range for this project is $500,000 to $1,000,000. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 237990 with a size standard of $18.5 million. This project is open to both large and small business. For the purposes of this procurement, a concern is considered a small business if its annual average gross revenue, taken for the last 3 fiscal years, does not exceed $18.5 million. To be eligible for contract award a firm must be registered in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database. Register viathe CCR Internet site at http://www.ccr.gov or by contacting the DoD Electronic Commerce Information Center at +1 (555) 000-0000. Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), the solicitation will be available for download no earlier than 15 days following the posting of this synopsis. Pursuant to FAR, the response date of the solicitation is no earlier than 30 days from the date of the solicitation release date. The solicitation due date will be noted on the solicitation at the time of issue.There is no technical information available until the issue of the solicitation via the Internet. Register to receive notification of solicitation/amendment posting: http://www2.fbo.gov/spg/USA/COE/DACA67/W912DW-08-B-0003/listing.html . Additional contracting opportunities will be found at ASFI: https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/sol_list.cfm?pContractOfcID=165 The solicitation will be issued in electronic format on the Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI) web site: https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/solicitation_view.cfm?psolicitationnbr=W912DW08B0003 The solicitation will be available for download on or about 10 May 2008.