U. S. Army Engineering District, Charleston, Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 919, Charleston, SC 29402-0919

Y -- CHARLESTON HARBOR DEEPENING AND WIDENING PROJECT: REHABILITATE/3 CONTRACTION DIKES, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SOL DACW60-99-B-0005 DUE 040599 POC Yolanda Brown-Grant (843)727-4249 Presolicitation Notice -- Dates are approximate. Actual bid opening date will be specified in the solicitation document. To be issued CD-ROM. Furnished all labor, equipment and materials for demolishing two existing sheet pile walls from existing contraction dikes and replacing with two new sheet pile walls of same length. The existing two sheet pile walls total approx. 1150 linear ft. of steel pile wall, batter piles, and walls. Piles were originally driven to depths ranging from -17 to -52 ft. below mean low water. Work also includes constructing a new contraction dike involving placement of fill, bedding, riprap and a new sheet pile wall. All work is located in the Cooper River within the Charleston Harbor channel. All materials from the demolition work are to be disposed of at approved disposal sites. Two of the sites where the work is to be accomplished are accessible from land. The third site an existing contraction dike is accessible from the water only. Summary of work for all sites are: approx. 10,200 tons of riprap, 8200 tons of bedding, 5500 tons of select fill, and 12900 square yards of geogrid. The estimated value of work is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. Plans and specifications are no charge. Mail request to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, PO Box 919, Charleston, SC 29402-0919, Attn: Contracting Dept. Telephone requests will not be honored. Size standard is $17 million. This project is 100% SB Set-Aside. SIC Code is 1629. To be considered a small business under this SIC Code, a firm may not have more than $17.0 million annual average gross revenues taken from the last three fiscal years. Posted 02/24/99 (W-SN302076). (0055)

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