IDIQ Contract for Rental of 27-30 Inch Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge for Dredging Mobile District Navigation Projects in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida

This is an advance notice for an IDIQ Contract for Rental of 27-30 Inch Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge for Dredging Mobile District Navigation Projects in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, which will be advertised on an unrestricted basis as an Invitation for Bid (IFB) solicitation.  The solicitation will be posted at the end of January 2020.  The expected contract amount will be $24M.

Project Description: The Contractor shall furnish the equipment, materials, supplies, and manpower required to perform dredging of the Mobile District Navigation Projects.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project is 237990.  The size standard is $30.0M.

Note No. 1: All prospective contractors and their subcontractors and suppliers must be registered in beta.sam.gov before they will be allowed to download solicitation information.  Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ prior to award of this contract.  Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via beta.sam.gov.  Registration for plans and specifications should be made via beta.sam.gov Internet Homepage.  If you are not registered, the United States Government is not responsible for providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation.  The solicitation will be available only as a direct download.  This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM.  Neither telephonic, mailed, nor fax requests will be accepted.  Registration should be completed one week prior to the issue date.  It is therefore the Contractor’s responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments to this solicitation.  The plans and specifications and all notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto.  Plans and specifications will not be provided in a printed-paper format; however, the Government reserves the right to revert to paper medium when it is determined to be in the Government's best interest.  NOTE:  This solicitation is in .pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.

Note No. 2:  All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in paper medium and electronic format using a CD-ROM.

Note No. 3:  All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through beta.sam.gov.  Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc.) are available on the Internet at:  https://www.beta.sam.gov.

Address questions concerning downloading of plans/specifications to SSG Kenneth Harlan at phone number (251) 694-3763; email Kenneth.P.Harlan@usace.army.mil.

Note No. 4:  The request for information (RFI) process for bidder inquiries during the advertisement period will be through the PROJNET internet based system, and specifics will be contained in the RFP solicitation package available exclusively from beta.sam.gov.  Other forms of communicating RFIs to the government will not be honored.  The government will try to respond to all questions. However, responses may not be furnished to all questions and particularly those received late in the advertisement period (0-10 days prior to bid opening).