Y--OCEANSIDE HARBOR MAINTENANCE DREDGING, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

Contract W912PL-09-B-0011, issued by the Department of Defense through the USACE Los Angeles District, involves the annual maintenance dredging of the federal navigation channel and sand trap at Oceanside Harbor in San Diego County, California. The project scope requires the dredging of approximately 180,000 cubic yards of material annually, with all dredged material to be placed on the beach south of the Oceanside Pier. The contract structure consists of one base year cycle and two option year cycles, with an estimated total price range between 5 million and 10 million dollars. Technical execution of the project is guided by specific maintenance dredging plans, utilizing the state plane coordinate system of 1953 and mean lower low water as the vertical datum. The project documentation includes detailed bathymetric survey data, channel cross-sections, and precise coordinate tables to define dredge limits. Procurement for the project concluded with a bid opening on September 9, 2009, which included detailed price breakdowns for mobilization and cubic yardage costs across the three potential cycles.