SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

                                                                  FOR

             FY 26 Maintenance Dredging, Rollinson & Silver Lake Harbor, North Carolina

This is a Sources Sought/Request for Information only. This is NOT a Solicitation Announcement, nor is it anRequest for Proposal. This request does not obligate the Government in any contract award.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, is conducting research to determine the market capabilities of potential contractors to perform FY 26 Maintenance Dredging for Rollinson & Silver Lake Harbor.

The work includes maintenance dredging of a number of channels near Hatteras and Ocracoke, North Carolina. The channels include Rollinson Channel, Big Foot Slough Hatteras Ferry Channel, Silver Lake, and Atlantic Harbor. The maintenance dredging work will consist of removal of shoaled material that has accumulated in the channels since the various areas were last dredged. Dredging depths range from 10’ plus 2’ of allowable overdepth to 12’ plus 2’ of allowable overdepth for these channels. Placement of dredged material for all channels will be on approved controlled effluent placement islands.

All dredging shall be performed by hydraulic cutter suction dredge with a pipeline to a controlled effluent site. There is no environmental window for hydraulic cutter suction dredge at the proposed channels. The placement of material on controlled effluent placement islands has an anticipated environmental window of 01 September 2025 through 31 March 2026.

All interested firms with 237990 as an approved NAICs code have until 19 February 2025 at 1500 EST to submit the following information:

- Name & Address of your Firm

- Point of Contact (Name/Phone/E-mail)

- Current SAM

- Documentation of use of a hydraulic cutter suction dredge

- Business Size, to include designation as HUBZone, 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Woman-Owned Business, and Large Business. Any supporting documentation that confirms your socio-economic status should be provided, i.e., letter of certification from VA confirming SDVOSB status. The Government must be able to verify SBA certification of HubZone and 8(a) via SAM.

- Bonding capability - both single and aggregate capacity contracts, as evidenced by submission of Surety Company Letter stating bonding capacity.

- Evidence of capabilities to perform comparable work (dredging projects). The contractor must provide evidence of comparable work on two (2) recent projects greater than $5,000,000.00 in value (not more than seven (7) years old.) Include the project name and description of the key/salient features of the project (completion date, total contract construction value, and your company's level of involvement in the project, i.e., subcontractor (type), prime, GC, etc. and your specific role. Additionally, if you were teaming with another firm, clearly identify your role on the project(s) submitted. Please provide at least one point of contact (with e-mail address and phone number) for project validation. The Government will not give credit to projects if the lack of information hinders the ability to determine relevancy and/or level or experience.

- Firm's capability to perform, to include geographic span and project size.

- Information on Teaming Arrangement (if applicable). Although we are not looking for formal signed agreements at this time, if you intend to "team" with another firm, formally or informally, you must submit information, not more, than one (1) page, about your team's involvement. More specifically, you must submit sufficient information for the Government to determine the roles each team member will play and what your socio-economic status is or will be considering the proposed arrangement. Therefore, included in your one (1) page if you are a Small Business and you intend to mentor/protégé and/or JV with a large business both team members must sign agreeing that 40% of the labor will be performed by the 8(a) firm. Additionally, if the team is a mentor/protégé arrangement, identify the areas that will be mentored. Any supporting documentation that confirms your socio-economic status as a team should be provided.