FY27 San Francisco District Maintenance Dredging

SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS / REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT ***THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS / REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI). THIS RFI IS RELEASED PURSUANT TO REVOLUTIONARY FAR OVERHUAL (RFO) FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) 10.001 FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO SEEK PROPOSALS OR AWARD A CONTRACT AT THIS TIME. *** SUMMARY: The Government is seeking sources for Market Research ONLY to support the services listed below for which the applicable NAICS code is 237990, Dredging Services. The Product Service Code (PSC) will be Z1KF. The size standard for small businesses is $37,000,000.00. Interested parties sought for a maintenance dredging of the projects described in Table 1 below. The projects will be solicited as an Invitation for Bids (IFB) contract. Interested parties will be invited to attend a Dredging Industry Day held in the spring and hosted by the San Francisco District to receive the latest project related information as well as information on available permitted upland placement sites and Government–furnished disposal sites. NO AWARD will be made from this Sources Sought. NO SOLICITATION, SPECIFICATION, OR DRAWINGS ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. Potential offerors having the skills and capabilities necessary to perform the described services below are invited to provide feedback via email to: Nairi.freeman@usace.army.mil and logan.champlin@usace.army.mil. All responses will be analyzed in order to determine the appropriate strategy for a potential future acquisition. Particularly, the purpose of this NOTICE is to gain knowledge of potential small business sources including certified HUBZone small business, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned small business, Veteran-Owned small business, Certified 8(a) small business, Women-Owned small business, etc. Other than Small Business may respond to this notice in the event the market does not indicate significant Small Business interest. ADDITIONAL PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS: The work includes maintenance dredging of the federal navigation channels of the projects listed in Table 1 to the required project depths with 1- ft paid over-depth and 1-ft unpaid over-depth. Please refer to Table 1 for disposal site, dredge windows, and other project related information. Upland disposal placement for San Joaquin River and Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channels (DWSC) are at contractor furnished upland beneficial reuseuse sites or at the various Government-furnished sites located along the channels. If a Government-furnished site is chosen, the and the material shall be pumped to the sites based on various pumping distances and depth of material. Both these projects have water quality and fish entrainment monitoring requirements that need to be performed by a third- party Contractor hired by the either by the Government or the dredging Contractor. For Oakland Harbor and Richmond Harbor, the Contractor is responsible for preparing a light monitoring plan and performing that task during daylight hours where dredging occurs within 250m of eelgrass beds and at monitoring reference sites not influenced by turbidity above ambient for that area. Surveys shall also be conducted prior to and following completion of dredging per SPN’s Light Monitoring Protocol. For Oakland Harbor, in addition to the standard alternative of ocean disposal at SF-DODS or placement at a beneficial use site, approximately 250,000 cubic yards of dredged material may be placed at a nearshore placement site shallow depths (-5 to +5 ft MLLW) near Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve in shallow water depths ranging from -5 to +5 ft MLLW. For Redwood City Harbor, the Government is contemplating a contract for dredging services with an anticipated ordering/performance period of up to two years, consisting of a one-year base period and one one-year option p…