Commanding Officer, USCG Civil Engineering Unit Cleveland, 1240 East 9th St., Room 2179, Cleveland, OH 44199-2060

Z -- DREDGING SOL DTCG83-98-B-3WF034 POC Pamela M. Komer (216) 902-6216 Provide all labor, materials, equipment, transportation and supervision required to perform maintenance dreding at USCG Group/MSO Philadelphia, PA. Work includes but is not limited to: Dredge approx. 27,000 cy of mud/silt from the mooring areas. Transport the dredge materials by scow boat to Army Corps of Engineers disposal site located at Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia, PA. Fort Mifflin disposal site is located seven nautical miles down the Delaware River from the dredge site. Procure an independent surveying company to take soundings before and after and compute dredge quantity. Provide results of soundings. Monitor the effluent daily and provide the results. Perform daily pH and suspended solids testing on the receiving water at Fort Mifflin disposal site. Perform a Bulk Sediment Test on the sediments to be dredged and the sediments at the disposal site. Perform disposal area preparation and finish work. Provide an offshore unloading station with pump and pipeline to disposal pond at Fort Mifflin. Provide a unit work item per cy of overdepth dredge material based on an overdepth dredge quantity of 5,000 cy which is the maximum overdepth quantity permitted. Provide a unit work item per hour for down time for the dredging operation. The hourly rate shall be based on 20 hours of down time. Performance period is 80 DANTP -- All work shall be completed by 6 March 1998. The estimated range is $500K to $1M. The SIC Code is 1629. This procurement is open to both small and large businesses. There is a $25.00 NON-REFUNDABLE FEE required to receive plans and specifications. Payment shall be made to the "U.S. Coast Guard". All requests shall be submitted in writing to Attn: Pam Komer/98-3WF034. Bid Opening is o/a 20 November 1997. This office maintains a Procurement Information Line at (216) 902-6222. This line posts all current Bid Results and a list of solicitations that are currently on the street, current Bid Opening/Closing Date, Number of Amendments issued and the Contract Specialists name. Do not call this office requesting the whereabouts of a solicitation or current bid opening -- pls call the Procurement Information Line instead. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has programs to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital and bonding assistance for transportation-related contracts. This is applicable to any eligible prime or subcontract at any tier. The DOT Bonding Assistance Program enables firms to apply for bid, payment, and performance bonds up to $1.0 million per contract. The DOT provides 80% guaranty on the bond amount to a surety against losses. Loans are also available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STELP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information regarding the bonding and lending programs, please call the DOT Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. (0268)

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