Y--Mississippi River, Cubit's Gap and Southwest Pass, Hopper Dredge Rental, Contract No. 6-2007, Plaquemines Parish, LA

This will be an UNRESTRICTED procurement. The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped self-propelled trailing suction-type hopper dredge on a rental basis. Work will be performed at the Mississippi River Southwest Pass Area and po ssibly in other areas of the New Orleans District and in areas of both the Galveston and Mobile Districts. Work is estimated to cost between $1 million and $5 million. The estimated time for completion is 80 calendar days. IFB will be issued on or about 25 October 2006. Actual issue date will be shown when the solicitation is issued. Bid Opening date will be established by a future amendment. For security reasons, all technical and engineering data related to this solicitation will be distributed usin g the Federal Technical Data Solutions (FedTeDS) system. FedTeDS is a web-based dissemination tool designed to safeguard acquisition-related information for all Federal agencies. Interested bidders must register with FedTeDS before accessing the system. Registration instructions can be found on the FedTeDS website (https://www.fedteds.gov) by clicking on the Register with FedTeDS hyperlink. Contractors registered with the Federal Technical Data Solutions (FedTeDS) may view and/or download this solicitat ion and all amendments from the Internet after solicitation issuance at the following internet address: https://www.fedteds.gov/fedteds/start.nsf/frm.vendorlogin?openform&SolicitationNumber=W912P8-07-B-0006. You can also find the link to FedTeDS for this solicitation on the New Orleans District web site at www.mvn.usace.army.mil. Click on Contracts and then Procurement Opportunities. Click on the solicitation number and it will send you to FedTeDS. Type in your username and password. A page will come u p and you Accept. The next page will say Solicitation Information, click on file name and begin downloading. Do not click on the paperclip; click on the blue informational line. It may take some time to download the files. Zip files containing .cal dra wing files should be downloaded and extracted together in a single directory. You will need the adobe acrobat reader for .pdf files (www.adobe.com) and the maxview reader (www.maxview.com) for .cal files in order to open most files posted by the New Orlea ns District. You are advised that FedTeDS currently does not have a Plan Holders List capability. However, you are encouraged, for marketing purposes, to register as an Interested Vendor in FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). This can be done by clicking on the so licitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerors are also encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administrations S ubnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerors must be registered with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the CCR Internet address is: http://www.ccr.gov. The Contract Specialist for thi s solicitation is Jane Kulick, telephone: +1 (555) 000-0000, FAX: +1 (555) 000-0000 or E-mail: contact@example.gov.