Y--Mississippi River, New Orleans Harbor Cutterhead Dredge Rental No. 1-2008, Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana

The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge on a rental basis. Work will be performed in the New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River and adjacent lock forebays of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The estimated value of this work is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The solicitation will issue on or about February 11, 2008; and a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment. This will be an UNRESTRICTED procurement. NAICS: 237990. The estimated time allowed to complete this work is 256 calendar days. Actual issue date will be shown when the solicitation is issued. The solicitation documents for this procurement will be posted on Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI). You can access these files from a link located on FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). You will need the adobe acrobat reader for .pdf files (www.adobe.com) in order to open most files posted by the New Orleans District. 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 solicitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerors are also encoura ged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administrations Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerors must be registered with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR), in order to receive a Government contra ct award. To register, the CCR Internet address is: http://www.ccr.gov. The Contract Specialist for this solicitation is Lydia Quillens, telephone: +1 (555) 000-0000, fax: +1 (555) 000-0000 or e-mail: contact@example.gov.