Y--Maintenance Dredging, Hudson River, NY, North Germantown Reach.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District intends to issue an Invitation for Bids (IFB) for the award of a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract to perform maintenance dredging. The work involves maintenance dredging of approximately 186,000 cubic yards of material from the Hudson River Federal Navigation Project Channel at the North Germantown Reach, with upland placement of the dredged material in the federally owned Houghtaling Island dredged material placement site. The dredging area is located approximately 19 miles from the placement site. The contractor is required to properly prepare the placement site (e.g. dike construction/reinforcement, installation of weir(s), etc.) prior to placing the dredged material in accordance with the contract requirements including the construction of new and/or reinforcement of existing containment dikes in the area designated for placement of the North Germantown Reach sediments. The contractor will also be responsible for performing all sampling, testing and monitoring activities to insure compliance with contract requirements. Potential bidders are encouraged to inspect the North Germantown Reach dredge area and dredged material placement site prior to bid opening. A one-time pre-bid site visit to the dredged material placement site will be scheduled for registered contractors and subcontractors. Information regarding access to the Houghtaling Island site can be obtained through the Albany Field Office POC Robert Berrian (Project Engineer) +1 (555) 000-0000. Plans and Specifications for the subject project will be available on/about 21 May 2012 with bid opening on/about 21 June 2012. This project is being solicited as an UNRESTRICED Procurement. The applicable NAICS Code is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction. The small business size is $20,000,000.00. The SIC Code is 1629 heavy construction not elsewhere classified. The estimated cost is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. The Federal Acquisition Regulation requires that Past Performance Information (PPI) be collected on Department of Defense (DoD) contracts. The Government has now implemented a web-enabled application that collects and manages contractor past performance data. Effective 1 April 2007, the system, Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), requires both the contractor and the Government to submit their portion of the CPARS report via the internet for construction contracts in excess of $100,000.00. More definitive guidance and instructions will be incorporated in the solicitation and resultant contract. In the meantime, to become familiar with the system, the CPARS website has a computer-based training module and a practice session for your use at https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/ct/I/home.asp by following the links to the training. Bids will be submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Contracting Division, Room 1843, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278. All questions must be submitted in writing via email to the POC. The media selected for issuance of Synopsis/Solicitation and amendments shall solely be at the discretion of the Government; accordingly, the media utilized for this project shall be the internet. Telephone, email or fax requests for the solicitation will not be accepted or honored. Paper copies of this solicitation and amendments, if any, will not be available or issued. Interested parties may download and print the solicitation at no charge from the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website, https://www.fbo.gov. All venders who want access to the solicitation must be registered with Central Contractor Registration (CCR), located at www.ccr.gov, and FedBizOpps, The system called FedBizOpps has been upgraded as a web-based dissemination tool designed to safeguard acquisition-related information for all federal agencies. Business opportunities can be located in FedBizOpps or the Army single face to Industry (ASFI) acquisition business website https://acquistion.army.mil/asfi. To keep informed of changes, check https://www.fbo.gov frequently. Some contractor tools are as follows; 1. Register to receive notification, and 2. Subscribe to the mailing list for specific solicitation at FedBizOpps https://www.fbo.gov or utilize the vender notification service in ASFI. A hyperlink posted in FedBizOpps will direct vendors to FedBizOpps to download solicitations, plans, specification and amendments. Project specification files and drawings are portable document files (PDF) and can be viewed, navigated, printed using A5. Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater, Netscape 4.x (except 4.7) and Netscape 5.x are also compatible with the FedBizOpps website. Prospective contractors must be registered in the DoD CCR database prior to award. Lack of registration in CCR will make and offeror ineligible to download the solicitation for award. Information on CCR registration is available at http://www.ccr.gov. For further information, contact: Renee George, Contract Specialist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1843, New York, NY 10278-0090. Telephone: +1 (555) 000-0000. Fax: +1 (555) 000-0000. E-mail: contact@example.gov.