Y--West Coast Regional Hopper Dredging Contract, Various Locations, Washington, Oregon, and California

The Portland District Corps of Engineers, Portland District intends to award a solicitation for Regional Hopper Maintenance Dredging. This dredging project includes maintenance work in Grays Harbor, WA, San Francisco Main Ship Channel and Humboldt B ar and Entrance Channel, CA, and the Mouth of the Columbia River select Columbia River bars from RM 3+00 to RM 105+00, and Coos Bay Entrance Channel, OR. Disposal of maintenance material will be located at designated in-water flow lanes and ocean and near- shore disposal sites. The Contractor shall be required to commence work at any time after Notice to Proceed, to prosecute the work diligently and complete the work not later than 30 September 2008. A Site Safety and Health Officer (SSHO) shall be provided for all new contracts with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District. For this project, the person that will act as the SSHO is required to have a minimum of 3 years safety work with similar projects and a 30 Hour OSHA construction safety class, or equivalent, taken within the last 3 years. The SSHO may have no other duties for this work except function as the on-site CQC Manager. A preliminary draft copy of the solicitation is available for review and comment. This draft solicitation can be dow nloaded from FedTeDs at the following link: https://www.fedteds.gov/fedteds/start.nsf/frm.VendorLogin?OpenForm&SolicitationNumber=W9127N-08-B-0002, or by selecting Technical Data Package (TDP) 01 from www.fbo.gov. The preliminary review period is 27 Dece mber 2007 through 10 January 2008. Comments, suggestions and questions will ONLY BE ACCEPTED through the Bidder Inquiry Module in ProjNet, www.projnet.org. The bidder inquiry key is: 6D3HT4-X19N2J. Letter, email, fax and phone inquiries will not be accep ted. Each posting will be taken into consideration by the Government and a response will be posted at the end of the review period. If you have any problems downloading the draft solicitation, please contact Courtney Jones, +1 (555) 000-0000, email: Courtney.L. contact@example.gov. The finalized solicitation will be issued on or about 15 January 2008 with bid opening 30 days after issue. This procurement is open to both small and large business concerns. The magnitude of construction for this solicitation is between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00. A notice and link to download this solicitation will be posted on the Federal Business Opportunity website when the solicitation is available. Any changes and/or updates to this procurement will be posted on the F ederal Business Opportunity website: www.fbo.gov. Administrative points of contact are Julius Kaneshiro, +1 (555) 000-0000 email: contact@example.gov and Courtney Jones, +1 (555) 000-0000 email contact@example.gov. Technical lead is Dylan Davis, +1 (555) 000-0000, email contact@example.gov.