FY24 Shoreline Stabilization and Landfill Capping Pituffik Space Base, Greenland

The New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to issue a solicitation package seeking to award a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract to for the Landfill Closure and Shoreline Stabilization at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland. This will be a competitive, 2-Step Best Value Trade-Off Solicitation.

General Conditions at Pituffik Space Base: The location of Thule Air Base limits exterior work to the months of June through September, although work is sometimes possible in May and/or October. Additionally, Thule's location demands that all supplies/personnel must be shipped /transported in/out via air/sealift. Pituffik Space Base is not a commercial air/seaport and there is no other access. Shipping schedules are dictated by Defense contracts, and materials and labor are not available locally. The region is glaciated, and the existing soil is generally permafrost, which exists from 1 to 6 feet below the surface to a measured depth of 1,600 feet. Winter temperatures average between 20 -30 degrees F below zero while average summer temperatures are between 40-50 degrees F above zero. One annual military cargo sealift departs from Norfolk, Virginia to Thule AB, on or about 1 July. There are two sealifts that leave from Copenhagen, Denmark to Thule AB, one in July & one in August. Airlifting any materials or equipment via military aircraft is very expensive and only normally allowed on an emergency-need basis.

Prepare design/build construction documents and provide construction for cleanup and stabilization of the coastal faces of the closed landfills located at four (4) sections on the northwest (NW) shoreline of Pituffik Space Base, Greenland. The NW shoreline requires clean up, geotextile, and blasted rock coverage. The first and second sections have lengths of approximately 122 meters and 159 meters, respectively, and vary from zero (0) to approximately 4.5 m in height. The third section is approximately 304 meters in length and varies from zero (0) to approximately 3 meters in height. The fourth section is 170 m in length and is bounded to the north by the end of Section 3 and to the south by the 2011 revetment. All sections require thorough and extensive excavation, cleanup, and removal of half-buried scrap and debris, as well as a subsequent rehabilitation.

The work is estimated to cost between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000.  It is the intention of the Government to award 2nd Quarter of Fiscal Year 2024 and the proposed work is anticipated to take place over approximately two years.

Liquidated Damages of approximately $3,000.00 per calendar day of delay will be assessed to the contractor until all work under the contract is accepted as complete.

This procurement is restricted to Danish and Greenlandic Firms only.

Proposals will be submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Contracting Division, Room 16-300, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278-0090.  All questions must be submitted in writing via email (Microsoft Word format) to the Contract Specialist.  The media selected for the issuance of this solicitation and amendments shall solely be at the discretion of the Government; accordingly, the medium utilized for this project is the Internet.  Paper copies of this solicitation, and amendments, if any, will not be available or issued. In accordance with DFARS 252.204-7007, all vendors who want access to the solicitation must be registered with System for Award Management (SAM), located at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/, and Contract Opportunities, located at https://SAM.gov, in order to safeguard acquisition related information for all Federal Agencies. Interested parties may download and print the solicitation at no charge from the Contract Opportunities website at https://sam.gov.

Point of Contact: Monica Chahary, Contract Specialist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 16-300, New York, NY 10278-0090. Phone: (917) 790-8182. Fax: (212) 264-3013. Email: monica.c.chahary@usace.army.mil