PO75 LaBranch Marsh Creation

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement; to compliment an existing presolicitation notice and is for market survey information only. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SOURCES SOUGHT.  No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this sources sought or any follow up information requests.

The proposed project will be a competitive, firm-fixed price contract. The government intends to issue a solicitation; however, the results and analysis of the market research will finalize the determination of business size standard. The type of set-aside, if any, decision to be issued will depend upon the capabilities of the responses to this synopsis.

Statement of work: The project’s primary goal is to restore marsh that has been converted to open water. Project implementation will result in an increase of wildlife and fisheries habitat, acreage and diversity, along with improving water quality. In addition, the project will provide a storm buffer protection to I-10, the region’s primary westward hurricane evacuation route, and complement hurricane protection measures in the area. Project features consist of the creation of 1200 acres of marsh using dedicated dredging from Lake Pontchartrain. In addition, 6,540 linear feet of tidal creeks will be created.

The magnitude of the proposed construction project is between $25,000,000 and $50,000,000. Estimated duration of the project is 524 calendar days.

The North American Industry Classification System code for this procurement is 237990 – Other Heavy and Civil Engineer Construction – Dredging. To be considered small for purposes of Government

procurement, a firm or its similarly situated subcontractors must perform at least 40 percent of the volume dredged with their own equipment or equipment owned by another small dredging concern which has a small business size standard of $39 Million.

Firm’s response to this Synopsis shall be limited to 3 pages and shall include the following information:

1. Firm's name, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address.
2. Firm’s capabilities to perform hydraulic dredging rather than bucket dredging.
3. Firm’s bonding capability (bonding level per contract and aggregate bonding level, both expressed in dollars, via letter from the bonding company).

Interested Firms shall respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis no later than 2:00 p.m. CT Aug 10, 2022 via email only. All interested firms must be registered in SAM (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for award of Government contracts. Please email your response to: Tasha Kennedy, Contract Specialist. Email: natasha.kennedy@usda.gov