U.S. Army Engineer District, Norfolk, Attn: CENAO-CT, 803 Front Street, Norfolk, Virginia 23510-1096

Z -- MAINTENANCE DREDGING AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS, JAMES RIVER, VA SOL DACW65-00-B-0004 DUE 060600 POC Charlotte Hofstetter, (757) 441-7136 WEB: Norfolk District EBS Website, http://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Ebs/Asp/AdvertisedSolicitations.asp. E-MAIL: Norfolk District POC, charlotte.g.hofstetter@usace.army.mil. This project consists of maintenance dredging and disposal of dredged material by hydraulic dredge and pipeline at various locations on the James River. The contract will be awarded as an Indefinite Quantity Contract; task orders will be issued for various locations on the James River. The initial contract ordering period will be one year, with options for 4 additional periods. Total awards during each ordering period are not expected to exceed $1,000,000.00. Construction time for each task order, as well as the specific work requirements for the respective dredging and material placement operations, will be indicated in the individual task orders. The contractor shall provide all necessary plant and equipment capable of dredging to depths of 27 feet below mean low water, and pumping dredged material at distances as far as 13,500 feet. The contractor will be required to use and maintain Government furnished placement sites for all dredged material on this contract. A pre-bid conference will be held on 03 May 2000 in the 3rd Floor Conference Room at the Norfolk District, Corps of Engineers, 803 Front Street, Norfolk, VA 23510-1096. The purpose of this conference is to answer questions from potential bidders concerning the solicitation and contract requirements. Questions may be submitted in writing to the contracting office POC prior to the conference. The solicitation will be provided in an electronic format, free of charge to all registered plan holders. The media through which the Government chooses to issue this solicitation is compact disk and/or Internet. The solicitation will not be issued in paper format. Notification of amendments may be made by facsimile, floppy disk, compact disk and/or postings to the Internet. The media selected for solicitation amendments shall be solely at the discretion of the Government; accordingly, as separate notifications for each amendment may not be sent to planholders, bidders shall be responsible for monitoring the Internet for amendments. Interested firms may view and/or download the solicitation on or after 05 April 2000 from the following website: http://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Ebs/Asp/AdvertisedSolicitations.asp. Requests for the solicitation compact disk may be made by registering at this site as a planholder. Telephone, facsimile, mail, and e-mail requests for the compact disk will not be honored. Prospective contractors must be registered in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database prior to award. Lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror ineligible for award. Information on CCR registration and annual confirmation requirements may be obtained by calling 1-888-227-2423, or via the Internet at http://www.ccr2000.com. The proposed contract is 100% set aside for small business firms; SIC Code 1629 applies. See Note 1. Posted 03/09/00 (W-SN432729). (0069)

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