Mississippi River and Tributaries, 2024 Casting Articulated Concrete Mattress, St. Francisville Casting Field, St. Francisville, Louisiana (ED 23-030)

Mississippi River and Tributaries, 2024 Casting Articulated Concrete Mattress, St. Francisville Casting Field, St. Francisville, Louisiana (ED 23-030)

This solicitation will be issued as 100% SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE. The NAICS code for this procurement is 327390.

This solicitation will be issued as an Invitation for Bid (IFB). The resulting contract shall be a firm fixed price (FFP) Contract.

The work consists of casting articulated concrete mattresses at the St. Francisville Casting Yard.

The bid schedule will include Base and Optional Line Items. The estimated time of completion for Base Work is 175 calendar days after receipt of notice to proceed. ACTUAL DATES WILL BE INCLUDED IN SOLICITATION WHEN POSTED. If Optional Work 1 (OW1) is exercised, the days required for completion of the contract, in addition to the BASE WORK, will be increased by the number of Articulated Concrete Mattress OW1 executed divided by 540 squares per calendar day. If Optional Work 2 or Optional Work 3 is exercised, the time required for completion of the contract will not be adjusted but shall be performed concurrent with contract duration. The solicitation will include 5 drawings and specifications.

This solicitation will be issued on or about 27 February 2024 with an anticipated bid opening date of 28 March 2024; however, actual bid opening date will be determined upon the solicitation advertisement date.

When posted, the solicitation will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found on the System of Award Management System (SAM) website, https://sam.gov. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued. Therefore, telephone and Fax requests for this solicitation will not be honored. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Contractors must register at the SAM website at https://www.sam.gov to download the solicitation for this project. If/when issued, Amendments will be posted to the above-referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing amendments before closing; therefore, the bidders must check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation.

Bidders shall maintain an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at https://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If a bidder is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database at the time of award, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective bidder. Bidders are also encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administration's Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet.

The Contract Specialist for this solicitation is Lauren A. Gandolfi at (504) 862-2466 (lauren.a.gandolfi@usace.army.mil).