Tampa Harbor, Maintenance Dredging, Tampa Bay Cuts Through Cut-C (HB), Hillsborough County, Florida (2024)   4

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, is issuing an Invitation for Bid (IFB) to award a single firm fixed-price contract. The project consists of maintenance dredging within Tampa Harbor which includes maintenance dredging of Cut-C (HB). Dredge areas will incorporate 1 foot of allowable overdepth. All dredged material is to be placed in the Alafia Banks Placement Area. Additional work includes turbidity monitoring, sea turtle trawl sweeping and relocation, bird monitoring and environmental species monitoring.A site visit will be held on Wednesday, 31 July 2024, at 10:00AM (EDT). See 52.236-27 SITE VISIT clause for details.A Pre-Bid Conference will be held via Webex on Thursday, 1 August 2024 at 10:00AM, (EDT). Utilize the link and call-in number: https://usace1.webex.com/meet/ligaya.m.lowe US Toll Free 1-844-800-2712, the Access Code is: 28265445906. It is requested that an email be sent to Ligaya.M.Lowe@usace.army.mil to confirm attendance by your organization no later than Wednesday, 31 July at 4:00PM (EDT). Bids are due Thursday, 29 August at 1:00PM, (EDT) and the Bid Opening will be held at 2:00PM (EDT).NAICS Code is: 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction.The Small Business Size Standard is $37 million.Magnitude of Construction is between $5,000,000.00 and 10,000,000.00.The period of performance associated with this requirement is 250 calendar days after receipt of the Notice to Proceed (NTP). The contractor shall commence work within 60 calendar days after receipt of the NTP.THIS WILL BE AN UNRESTRICTED SOLICITATION. ALL RESPONSIBLE OFFERORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE. In order to receive notification of any amendments to this solicitation, interested vendors must REGISTER AS AN INTERESTED VENDOR on the System for Award Management (SAM) website at https://sam.gov/. If you are not registered, the Government is not responsible with providing you with notification of any amendments to this solicitation. You must be registered in SAM.gov in order to be eligible to receive an award from this solicitation. For additional information, please call 866-606-8220 or visit the SAM website at https://www.sam.gov/. The only authorized transmission method for a bid in response to this solicitation is electronically via the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module. NO OTHER TRANSMISSION METHODS (EMAIL, FACSIMILE, REGULAR MAIL, HAND CARRIED, ETC.) WILL BE ACCEPTED. The bids must be received by the Government by the date/time specified in the solicitation. Bidders shall submit their bid via the PIEE website? Solicitation Module using the following link: https://piee.eb.mil/. Instructions on how to submit a bid can be found using the following link: https://pieetraining.eb.mil/wbt/sol/Posting_Offer.pdf The official plans and specifications are located directly in PIEE, and the Government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to www.sam.gov for electronic downloading from PIEE. This will be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the bidder?s responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. Due to various reasons, websites are occasionally inaccessible; the Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for bidder?s inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages. The Government will not issue paper copies. All inquiries must be in writing via ProjNet. Instructions on how to access ProjNet are included in the solicitation. All answers will be provided in writing via ProjNet.