Z--Suisun Bay Channel & Pinole Shoal Channel Maintenance Dredging, Contra Costa County, California

Project Title & Location: Suisun Bay Channel & Pinole Shoal Channel Maintenance Dredging, Contra Costa County, California. The work consists of maintenance dredging of the Suisun Bay Channel and Pinole Shoal channel. Approximately 137,000 cubic yards (including 38,900 CY of 1 foot allowable paid over-depth) of material in the Suisun Bay channel and 88,000 cubic yard(including 52,500 CY of 1 foot allowable paid over-depth) of material in the Pinole Shoal channel shall be removed to provide a project authorized depth, -35 feet plus 1 foot allowable paid over-depth plus 1 foot allowabl e nonpaid over-depth, and disposing of the dredged materials in the designated ocean disposal site at SF- 16 and SF-10. This Invitation for Bid (IFB) is UNRESTRICTED. NAICS CODE: This procurement will be conducted under NAICS Code 237990. The size standa rd for this NAICS code is $18.5 Million. Estimated cost is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The recommended goals for subcontracting are: Small Business: 51.2%, Small Disadvantaged Business: 8.8%, Women-Owned Small Business: 7.3%, HUBZone Small Bus iness: 3.1%, and Service-Disable Veteran-Owned Small Business: 1.5%. The acquisition method is Invitation for Bids (IFB). The solicitation will be available for download approximately May 12, 2006. The solicitation and all amendments for this acquisition w ill be posted on a secure Government website known as FedTeDS. Access to the solicitation documents on the FedTeDs website will be via hyperlink. Contractors registered with the Federal Technical Data Solutions (FedTeDs) may view and/or download this soli citation 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=W912P7-06-B-0004. Viewing/downloading documents from FedTeDs will require prior registration in Central Contractor Registration (www.ccr.gov). If you are a first-time FedTeDs user, you will also be required to register in FedTeDs (www.fedteds.gov) before accessing the solicitation documents. To register, cli ck on the Register with FedTeDs hyperlink, then select the Begin Vendor/Contractor Registration Process option. The following information will be required: Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Marketing Partner Identification Number (MPIN); DUNS Number or CAGE Code; Telephone Number; and E-Mail Address. Once registered with FedTeDs, interested parties will then be able to utilize the hyperlink to log in and access the solicitation documents. Important Note: Solicitation documents can be accessed ONLY by us ing the hyperlink; FedTeDs is not searchable by any other means. Please note that ALL firms who want to access the solicitation both prospective primes and subs will be required to be registered with FedTeDs and therefore must be CCR-registered, have a MPI N, and either a DUNS number or CAGE code. For further information, please click on the links on the FedTeDs homepage to FAQs, the Vendor User Guide, and FedTeDs Help. For additional assistance with the FedTeDS website, please contact the Ogden Electronic B usiness (EB) Operations Support Team (OST) at --866-618-5988 (toll free), +1 (555) 000-0000, or contact@example.gov (Subject: FedTeDs Assistance). Offerors are advised that FedTeDs currently does not have a Plan Holders List capability. Therefore, you a re encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administration's Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. San Francisco District, South Pacific Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has been assigned procureme nt responsibility for this product line in support of Southwest Division. The Contract Specialist for this solicitation will be James Garror, Tel. +1 (555) 000-0000. If contacting us by E-mail, please send your inquiries to BOTH: contact@example.gov il AND contact@example.gov. All offerors are encouraged to visit the Armys Single Face to Industry Website at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi to view other business opportunities.