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AIWW Facility Contract Sources Sought

Description of Work:

The Norfolk District, United States Army Corps of Engineers is seeking eligible businesses capable of performing all services, and providing all materials, supplies, plant, labor, equipment, utilities and supervision (except those specified as government furnished) required to operate, maintain all facilities, all real property facilities, and approximately 3,100 acres of land owned by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, which is known as the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW).

The northern boundary of the project for this contract is the Interstate 64 bascule bridge at approximately mile 7.1 on the AIWW. The southern boundary of the AIWW on the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal (ACC) is the North Carolina state line, approximately mile 34. The southern boundary of AIWW on the Dismal Swamp Canal (DSC) is the mouth of the Pasquotank River where it joins the Albemarle Sound, approximately mile 68, in North Carolina.

The ACC project includes the North Landing Swing Bridge that borders Virginia Beach, Virginia and Chesapeake, Virginia located near Mount Pleasant Road. The bridge is operated 24 hours a day and opens on the hour and a half between 6am - 7pm daily. The Great Bridge lock is a 72 feet wide by 600 feet long navigation lock and support facility with a normal lift of 2.7 feet located in the Great Bridge section of Chesapeake, Virginia. The purpose of the lock is to prevent the inflow of salt water from the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River to the fresh water to the south. Locking's are on demand and operated 24 hours a day.

The DSC project includes one highway drawbridge and navigation lock at Deep Creek, Virginia, one highway drawbridge and navigation lock at South Mills, North Carolina. There is a total of three water control structures on the canal and at Lake Drummond. The Deep Creek Lock and South Mills Lock are 52 feet wide by 300 feet long, with a normal lift of 12 feet. Locking's are only 4 times a day, and the Dismal Swamp Canal operating staff works 8 hours per day.

Period of Performance:

The Government anticipates awarding a firm fixed-price contract consisting of a base year and 4 option years for a total of five years of performance. The anticipated solicitation issuance date will be approximately December 2023. The solicitation will be open for a minimum of 30 days. This action will utilize FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation procedures.

SURVEY OF THE DREDGING INDUSTRY

The following confidential survey questionnaire is designed to apprise the Corps of prospective O&M Facility contractors' project execution capabilities. Please provide your response to the following questions. All questions are for the AIWW Facility Contract located in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and South Mills North Carolina.

1. Please provide company’s name, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address.

2. Would you be interested in bidding on the solicitation when it is issued? If the answer is No, please explain why not?

3. Have you worked on O&M facility jobs similar in nature, complexity, and magnitude to this project within the past 5 years? If so, please describe the project(s) and for whom the work was performed. Indicate the dollar value of the project(s). Identify a point of contact (s) and phone number, as a reference of relevant experience.

4. Would you be bidding on this project as a sole contractor, prime contractor with subcontractor(s) or as a joint venture?

5. Is there a dollar limit on the size of contract that you would bid? If so, what is that limit?

6. What is the largest O&M Facility contract, in dollars, on which you were the prime contractor?

7. What is your bonding capacity per contract? What is your total bonding capacity?

8. Are you familiar with the safety and health requirements of EM 385-1-1?

This Sources Sought should not be construed in any manner to be an obligation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District to issues a contract, or result in any claim for reimbursement of costs for any effort you expend responding to this request. No solicitation is currently available.

The Government will utilize this information in determining an acquisition strategy. Please state all socio-economic categories in which your company belongs (8(a), Hub-zone, Service- Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Woman Owned). Please submit capability packages electronically via email to Tracey.M.Strawbridge@usace.army.mil and Eartha.D.Garrett@usace.army.mil.

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