Morehead City Inner Ocean Bar Maintenance Dredging

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District requires a contract to perform maintenance dredging at Morehead City Inner Ocean Bar (MHC IOB), Carteret County, North Carolina

The work shall consist of maintenance dredging of the Morehead City Harbor federal navigation channel reaches including the Cutoff, Range A, Range B and Range C.  The work will require removal of accumulated shoaled material from the channels since last dredged and placement to the designated beach. The dredging shall be performed by hydraulic cutter suction dredge and/or hopper dredge.  Maximum dredging depth will be 47 feet plus 2 feet of allowable over depth for Range A and 45 feet plus 2 feet of allowable over depth for Range B, Range C and the Cutoff.  The estimated quantity of material to be dredged, including allowable over depth, is approximately 800,000 cubic yards.  Placement of dredged material shall be on the beach at Atlantic Beach. All beach work is to be completed during the established environmental window of 16 November through 30 April.  The environmental window for hopper dredging is 1 December through 15 April. The work will include shaping the beach fill and providing beach pre and post construction surveys.

This solicitation is unrestricted.

The contract issued will be Firm Fixed Price.

The Magnitude of Construction of this project is between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00. 

This solicitation will be issued in electronic format only and will be available on or about 07 June 2023. 

The bid opening date will be specified in the solicitation when it is issued. No additional media (CD-ROM, floppy disks, facsimiles, etc.) will be provided. Paper copies of this solicitation will not be available. Other methods of requesting a package will not be honored. 

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 237990 – Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and the size standard is $37,000,000.00. 

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Contractors can register to be put on a plan holders list that others can access through the www.sam.gov website. It is the Offeror's responsibility to check the Internet address provided as necessary for any posted changes to this solicitation and all amendments. For additional information or assistance, please contact Diana Curl, Contract Specialist, 910-251-4915, email diana.d.curl@usace.army.mil or Rosalind Shoemaker, Contracting Officer, phone (910) 251-4436, email rosalind.m.shoemaker@usace.army.mil.

Amendment 0001 adds clause 52.204-27

Amendment 0002 updates the quantities for CLIN 0002 and CLIN 0004

Doument titled "A21 - FY24 Morehead City Range C Geotech Data" with soil information is also being added to SAM.