SOURCES SOUGHT
Y -- Sources Sought For Various Beach Nourishment Projects Within the New York/New Jersey Metro Area
- Notice Date
- 1/3/2008
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 237990
— Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
- Contracting Office
- US Army Engineer District, New York, CENAN-CT, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278-0090
- ZIP Code
- 10278-0090
- Solicitation Number
- W912DS-08-S-0007
- Response Due
- 1/17/2008
- Archive Date
- 3/17/2008
- Point of Contact
- Loretta E. Parris, 917-790-8182
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to US Army Engineer District, New York
(loretta.e.parris@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE USED FOR MARKET ANALYSIS ONLY. NO AWARDS WILL BE MADE FROM THE RESPONSES TO THIS SYNOPSIS. SINCE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE IN REFERENCE TO FOUR SPECIFIC PROJECTS, CONTRACTORS ARE FREE TO RESPOND IN REFFER ENCE TO ANY AND ALL OF THE PROJECTS SITED. NO SOLICITATION WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER RESPONSES WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE ACQUISITION STRATEGIES FOR FUTURE ACQUISITIONS. The purpose of this announcement is to gain knowledge o f potential business sources; with specific interest in small business, certified 8(a), certified HUB Zone, and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), concerns for work on Construction Contract. The NAICS Code is 237990 (size standard $4. 5 million average annual receipts for preceding three fiscal years). BACKGROUND AND INFORMATION FOR CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS The New York District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the process of developing the plans & specifications for the beach r enourishment projects at Long Branch, NJ; Westhampton, NY; Orchard Beach, Bronx, NY; and Coney Island, NY. Listed below are the project locations and overall scope of work for each project. It is anticipated that each project will be contracted separatel y. SURVEY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR INDUSTRY The following is a survey questionnaire designed to apprise the US Army Corps of Engineers, NY District, of prospective dredging/beach renourishment contractors project execution capabilities. You may respond in reference to any number of the projects in question. Please provide your response to the following questions: General: 1. Have you ever worked on dredging/ beach renourishment jobs similar in nature to these projects? If so, please d escribe the project and for whom the work was performed. Identify a point of contact and phone number. 2. Have you performed dredging/beach renourishment within the coastal waters of New York and New Jersey? 3. Would you be willing to bid on any of the projects described in this synopsis? If so, which ones? If the answer is No, please explain why not? 4. Would you be bidding on any of these projects as a sole contractor, prime contractor with subcontractor(s) or as a joint venture? 5. Is there a dollar limit on the size contract that you would bid? 6. What are the largest dredging/ beach renourishment contract in dollar amounts on which you were the prime contractor? 7. What is your bonding capacity per contract? What is your total bonding capacity? 8. Have you worked with environmental window restrictions, e.g., Piper Plover, Sea Turtle? 9. Is your company a small or large business as defined by the Small Business Administration? Equipment: 10. What type of dredge equipment and land-based equipment do you own and/or operate that is suitable for the work described? For each dredge that you list, please specify its hopper capacity, discharge pipe size, pump horsepower, and other salient characteristics. 11. Ide ntify which dredge(s), including support equipment (tug, pump-out buoy, submerged pipeline, floating pipeline etc.), you would employ on these projects. Air Quality Considerations The Corps is currently in discussions with regulatory agencies con cerning air quality. Initial discussions with these agencies indicate that the overall emissions from the equipment to be used may cause the NY/NJ metropolitan area to exceed state emission limits. 13. Do you have any information (i.e., engine manu facturer statements on emissions characteristics, etc.) or data (engine model, manufacturer, year, etc.) available on the emission levels from your dredge, tugboat, and land based equipment etc.? If so, would you please provide us this information with you r response along with a point of contact and phone number? 14. Do you have experience with the use of alternative fuels, admixtures, or retrofitting of equi pment to reduce emission levels? If so please identify the project, the nature of the alteration to the previous operating pattern. Would you please provide us with a point of contact and phone number so that more detailed information could gathered at a f uture date? 15. Would you be willing to purchase emission reduction credits ERC in lieu of using alternative fuels, admixtures, or retrofitting equipment? Have you ever purchased such credits? If so please identify the project, a point of contact and p hone number. 16. There exists the potential that operational constraints, or reduction in hours worked on a poor air quality day, or both might be imposed as part of the contract document. Would the possibility of the imposition of such constraints aff ect your decision to submit a bid? Contractors Comments or Recommendations Please note that this notice is not a commitment on the part of the Government to award a contract as a result of this notice or to pay for any information received. This syn opsis neither constitutes a Request for Proposal or Invitation for Bid, nor does it restrict the Government to an ultimate acquisition approach. The Government should not construe this Sources Sought Synopsis as a commitment for any purpose. The Government does not intend to rank submittals or provide any reply to interested firms. Long Branch, NJ This project will include the dredging of sand from the designated Sea Bright Borrow Area, located off Sandy Hook, NJ. The Sea Bright Borrow Area is locat ed approximately five miles off shore at a mean water depth of 75 feet. The material beach fill will be placed north of Lake Takanassee. There will be 500,000 CY to 1,000,000 CY taken from the Sea Bright Borrow Area for the Long Branch Beach renourishment project. The Contractor will be required to prepare and submit a site-specific unexploded ordnance operational work plan to the government for approval prior to dredging operations. The Contractors proposed methodology of performing a magnetometer sea rch and ordinance removal will be required as part of the work plan. The Contractor will also be required to conduct Sea Turtle and Whale monitoring during the period of June 15th through November 15th. The Contractor cannot place beach fill material duri ng the period of March 15th through September 15th due to Piper Plovers nesting on the beach. There are additional restrictions to beach fill placement during the period of May 1st to November 1st. These restrictions are to avoid disturbance to bird nestin g from Sea Beach Amaranth and Terns. The contract value is estimated to be between $5M and $10M. The advertisement and award is projected for the Spring of 2008. Westhampton, NY This project will include the dredging of sand from a designated b orrow area, Moriches and Shinnecock Inlets Borrow Area, located approximately 1-2 miles offshore of Westhampton and Shinnecock Inlet. Approximately 800,000 CY to 1,000,000 CY of material (beach fill) will be placed in Westhampton, with an option (subject to funding availability) for an additional beach fill of 200,000 CY to 400,000 CY to be placed West of Shinnecock. The Contractor cannot dredge or place beach fill material during the period of March 15th through September 1st due to environmental restri ctions. Mobilization and demobilization may also be constrained within this time. The contract value is estimated to be between $5M and $10M. The advertisement and award is projected for the Spring of 2008. Orchard Beach, Bronx, NY This project wi ll include the placement of approximately 200,000 CY to 400,000 CY of material beach fill in Orchard Beach, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx. The borrow material will be from an upland source. This project will also include the repair of the existing groin, approx imately 3000 to 4000 tons of stone work using new and existing stone. The Contractor cannot perform work during the period of May 1st through September 30th du e to environmental restrictions. The contract value is estimated to be between $7M and $15M. The advertisement and award is projected for the Summer of 2008. Coney Island, NY This project will include the placement of approximately 75,000 CY to 150,000 CY of material beach fill in the community of Sea Gate, Coney Island. The borrow material will be from a nearshore source in Gravesend Bay. This project will also include the construction of several new T-groins, approximately 80,000 to 100,000 tons of stone work using new stone, 40,000 to 50,000 square feet of new steel sheet pile and removal of existing timber groins. The contract value is estimated to be between $10M and $20M. The advertisement and award is projected for the summer of 2008. For each project, the Contractor will conform to all local, state, and federal laws while dredging material from the borrow area and subsequently placing fill on the beach. For each project the Contractor shall submit a safety & heath plan to the governm ent and that plan must be acceptable to the government before the contractor may mobilize. Before commencement of work for each project, the Contractor shall notify the 1st Coast Guard District, Aids to Navigation Officer, of their proposed operations, in cluding location and duration of operations and request that the information be published in a Notice to Mariners. This notification must be given at least three (3) weeks in advance so that it appears in the Notice to Mariners at least one week prior to the commencement of the beach renourishment operation for each project. The Contractor shall also coordinate the Long Branch dredging and transportation activities with U.S. Coast Guard Activities New Jersey, Vessel Traffic Service Branch and all the Ne w York dredging and transportation activities with the U.S. Coast Guard Activities New York, Vessel Traffic Service Branch. The Contractor will mark work areas with buoys as coordinated with the USCG. Survey Questionnaires are due 17 January 2008 at 2:00 P.M. Eastern Standard time. Submit three (3) Survey Questionnaires to: Attn: Wei Lugin CENAN CT Rm. No. 1843 US Army Corps of Engineers, NY District, 26 Federal Plaza New York, NY, 10278 Survey Questionnaires will not be ac cepted after 2:00 P.M. on the response date of 17 January 2008. Due to heightened security around 26 Federal Plaza, be prepared to leave ample time to gain entry into the building. If we do not receive an adequate number of qualified respondents (i.e., t wo or more responsible firms), the solicitations shall be issued on an unrestricted basis and all firms regardless of size shall be eligible and encouraged to compete for these projects. Technical Point of Contact for these surveys is Mr. Robert Greco at 9 17-790-8304.
- Place of Performance
- Address: US Army Engineer District, New York CENAN-CT, 26 Federal Plaza, New York NY
- Zip Code: 10278-0090
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 10278-0090
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