Shipyard Services to Execute Dredge Hurley Repower   4

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION / SYNOPSIS POSTING.

The Marine Design Center of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to issue a solicitation in the near future to procure services to execute the repowering of dredge Hurley. The Dredge Hurley is a diesel electric dustpan dredge which dredges the Mississippi River in the Memphis area. The dredge was designed to operate on two generators with a third on standby. To be compliant with current EPA emission rules, the dredge was approved to be repowered.

Principal Vessel Characteristics:

Length over all (LOA): 348 feet 6 Inches ( 348.50 feet)

Length between Perpendiculars (LBP): 348 feet 0 Inches ( 348.00 feet)

Breadth (Molded): 58 feet 0 Inches ( 58.00 feet)

Depth, amidships (Molded), to Main Deck at Side: 11 feet 0 Inches ( 11.00 feet)

(Est) Summer Freeboard Draft, from molded baseline: 7 feet 8 1/8 Inches ( 7.68 feet)

Design Displacement, fresh water (from GHS at 7' DWL): 3151 LT

A conceptual design was completed in 2018 and three (3) diesel generator sets are being procured as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) as part of the repower efforts. A final design package that includes weight estimate, foundation design drawings, general arrangement, machinery arrangement drawings, piping arrangement drawings, rip out/removal plans, electrical power system modification drawings, and monitoring, control, and alarm system modification drawings will be provided.

The period of performance will be 8 months. There will be Liquidated Damages associated with this procurement. Bonding will be required.

The Government anticipates issuing a solicitation for these services on or after 25 April 2024. The NAICS Code for this project will 336611 Ship Building and Repairing and the small business size standard is 1,300 employees.

Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via the SAM.gov homepage located at https://www.sam.gov. No hard copies will not be available. It is the contractor's responsibility to monitor https://www.sam.gov for issuance of the solicitation and monitoring of any amendments once the solicitation is issued. The solicitation will contain FAR provision 52.204-7; therefore, a bidder must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database prior to award.

Questions regarding this notice should be directed to Michael Hunter at michael.j.hunter@usace.army.mil

Offerors should review the entire solicitation once posted. Information within this Pre-Solicitation/Synopsis posting is subject to change.