SOURCES SOUGHT
Z -- Ice Harbor Navigation Channel Maintenance
- Notice Date
- 2/10/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 237990
— Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, Walla Walla, Attn: CENWW-CT, 201 North 3rd Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington, 99362-1876, United States
- ZIP Code
- 99362-1876
- Solicitation Number
- W912EF-14-R-SS22
- Archive Date
- 2/28/2014
- Point of Contact
- Phyllis Buerstatte, Phone: 509-527-7211, Jani C Long, Phone: 509-527-7209
- E-Mail Address
-
Phyllis.L.Buerstatte@usace.army.mil, jani.c.long@usace.army.mil
(Phyllis.L.Buerstatte@usace.army.mil, jani.c.long@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is not a solicitation. This Sources Sought Announcement is for the purpose of identifying small business concerns who are capable and interested in bidding on this dredging project. The US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District is seeking sources for a construction project titled, Lower Snake and Clearwater Rivers Navigation Maintenance Dredging. This will be a fixed price construction contract. Place of performance is Franklin, Whitman, Asotin, and Garfield Counties in Washington State and Nez Perce County in Idaho. Construction magnitude is between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. Performance and payment bonds in the amount of 100% of the contract price will be required. Responses to this announcement are due no later than 25 February 2014 at 5:00pm, Pacific. The work consists of mechanical dredging of the federal navigation channel, port berthing areas, and a navigation lock approach at four locations on the Snake River and lower Clearwater River. One site is the downstream navigation lock approach for Ice Harbor Dam Snake River Mile (RM) 9.5, while the other three sites are located at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers in Lower Granite reservoir. The three sites in Lower Granite are the Federal channel (Snake RM 138 to Clearwater RM 2) and the berthing areas for the Port of Lewiston (Clearwater RM 1-1.5) and Port of Clarkston (Snake RM 137.9 and 139). The dredging quantities are approximately 2,337 cubic yards at Ice Harbor Dam (Snake RM 9.5), 458,472 cubic yards at Federal channel (Snake RM 138 to Clearwater RM 2), 14,143 cubic yards at Port of Clarkston (Snake RM 137.9 and 139), and 4,664 cubic yards at Port of Lewiston (Clearwater RM 1-1.5). The Corps identified a location in the Lower Granite reservoir (Snake RM 116) just upstream of Knoxway Canyon, as the in-water disposal site of the dredged materials. Disposal will include selective placement of material to construct a near-shore underwater bench and shape to create fish habitat. Disposal would form a uniform, gently sloping shallow-water bench along about 2,500 linear feet of shoreline. The top width of the dredging disposal section would be approximately 200 linear feet and generally would have a 2%-5% slope from the shoreline sloping out to the side slope catch point. The side slope of the dredging disposal section generally would be 1V on 10H (1 foot vertical on 10 feet linear). The water depth along the shoreline after placement of the dredged material would be 6-8 feet. The current water depths at the disposal site, RM 116, range from 20-30 feet. The work will also include before (pre), progress and after (post) hydrographic surveys, for the dredge and disposal areas for topographic control and quantity calculations, and water quality monitoring. Total volume of dredged material for all four locations is approximately 400,000 to 500,000 cubic yards. The onsite performance period is Dec 15, 2014 - Feb 14, 2015. In the sources sought response, interested contractors MUST submit the following: 1) Describe your approach to successfully complete the dredging quantities within the onsite performance period considering the distance between the dredging locations described above and the disposal location RM116. 2) In the last dredging action in 2005-2006 turbidity limits were exceeded during the re-handling along the shoreline, momentarily stopping the placement several times and delaying completion of the dredged material placement. For the present acquisition, re-handling of the dredged material is required to place the material along the shoreline at RM 116 to achieve the desired contours. Generally describe your re-handling process at RM 116 and preventive actions to limit turbidity exceedances. 3) Describe the topographic and hydrographic surveying methods and procedures, positioning and depth finding means, you intend to use to monitor dredge performance, progress, and pay requests, and to provide quality control of completed dredged sections. 4) Describe your past experience using "real time" water quality monitoring, data acquisition systems that use satellite/cell phone telemetry, database development, and web-based data displays. 5) Submit your past performance history of work similar to the work described in the sources sought above. The Contractor will be required to follow the procedures in the Army Corps of Engineers Safety Manual, at http://publications.usace.army.mil/publications/eng-manuals/EM_385-1-1_languages/EM_385-1-1_English_2008/toc.html This sources-sought announcement is issued for the purpose of identifying small business concerns, including HUBZone small business firms, woman-owned small business firms, small disadvantaged business firms, veteran-owned small business firms, and service-disabled veteran-owned small business firms, with the capability to accomplish the work. Information from firms who respond to this announcement by submitting a statement addressing the five technical areas identified above will be used in the Government's determination of whether to set aside this requirement for small business or open it to unrestricted competition. Include your firm's DUNS number, bonding capacity, and a statement indicating your small business type (small business, HUBZone, woman-owned, small disadvantaged, veteran-owned, or service-disabled veteran-owned.) The NAICS Code for this project is 237990. The small business size standard for Dredging is no more than $25,500,000 in average annual receipts AND the firm must perform at least 40 percent of the volume dredged with its own equipment or equipment owned by another small dredging concern. Please email your response to: Phyllis.L.Buerstatte@usace.army.mil All responses to this notice must be received on or before 5:00pm, Pacific time, on 25 February 2014.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Franklin, Whitman, Asotin, and Garfield Counties in Washington State and Nez Perce County in Idaho., United States
- Record
- SN03284951-W 20140212/140210234243-cbcb5557c7ee293e17a9b4283ef8c678 (fbodaily.com)
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