Y--IDIQ CONTRACT FOR RENTAL OF A 27-INCH TO 30-INCH CUTTERHEAD PIPELINE DREDGE FOR DREDGING IN ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, AND FLORIDA.

THIS PROJECT WILL NOT EXCEED $50,000,000 FOR 14 MONTHS. The work will primarily consist of maintenance dredging of navigation channels with dredged material disposed into open water and upland sites in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. The solicitation will be available for download on May 22, 2012. The estimated cost of this project is between $25,000,000.00 and $100,000,000.00. The contracting officer is Melinda H. Bramlett. Note No. 1: All prospective contractors and their subcontractors and suppliers must be registered in Federal Business Opportunities (fedbizopps) before they will be allowed to download solicitation information. Contractors must be registered in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) prior to award of this contract. Solicitation Documents, plans and specifications will only be available via FedBizOpps. Registration for plans and specifications should be made via FedBizOpps internet homepage. If you are not registered, the United States government is not responsible for providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation. The solicitation will be available only as a direct download. This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM. Neither telephonic, mailed nor fax requests will be accepted. Registration should be completed one week prior to the issue date. It is therefore the Contractor's responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted and for any posted changes or amendments to these modifications hereto. Plans and specifications will not be provided in a printed-paper format however, the Government reserves the right to revert to paper medium when it is determined to be in the Government's best interest. NOTE: this solicitation is in PDF format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Note No. 2: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through the Federal Business opportunities (FedBizOpps). Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc.) are available on the Internet at: www.fbo.gov. The specifications will be issued on www.fbo.gov, and will be provided free of charge. Note No. 3: Offeror must insert a price on all numbered items of the bid schedule. Failure to do so will disqualify the bid. All the extensions of the unit prices shown will be subject to verification by the Government. In case of variation between the unit price and the extension, the unit price will be considered to be the bid. Note No. 4: The number of hours bid is estimated. The contractor may be required to work either more or less than the number of hours bid. Note No. 5: Only one contract will be awarded on this bid schedule. Note No. 6: All bid forms, bid bonds and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in paper medium. Electronic medium for the bid submittal documents will not be allowed. Note No. 7: The request for information (RFI) process for bidder inquiries during the advertisement period will be through the ProjNet internet based system, and specifics will be contained in the RFP solicitation package available exclusively from FedBizOpps. Other forms of communicating RFIs to the Government will not be honored. The Government will try to respond to all questions. However, responses may not be furnished to all questions and particularly those received late in the advertisement period (0-10 days prior to bid opening.) --END--