SOURCES SOUGHT
Y -- LONG BRANCH BEACH RENOURISHMENT PROJECT MARKET SURVEY
- Notice Date
- 6/26/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 237990
— Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
- Contracting Office
- US Army Engineer District, New York, CENAN-CT, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278-0090
- ZIP Code
- 10278-0090
- Solicitation Number
- W912DS-06-SSAPL-174-01
- Response Due
- 7/11/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/9/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The New York District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (District) is in the process of developing the execution plan for the beach renourishment at Long Branch, NJ. The project will include the dredging of sand from a designated borrow area, the Sea Br ight Borrow Area, off shore of Sandy Hook, NJ. The Sea Bright Borrow Area is located approximately five miles off shore at a mean water depth of 75 feet. The material (beach fill) will be placed north of Lake Takanassee. There will be 500,000 CY to 1,00 0,000 CY taken from the Sea Bright Borrow Area for the Long Branch Beach renourishment project. The Contractor will conform to all local, state, and federal laws while carrying out the dredging of the material from the borrow area and subsequent beach fil l placement. The Contractor is required to conduct Sea Turtle and Whale monitoring during the period of June 15th through November 15th. The Contractor cannot place beach fill material during the period of March 15th through September 15th due to Piper P lovers nesting on the beach. There are additional restrictions to beach fill placement during the period of May 1st to November 1st. These restrictions are to avoid disturbance to bird nesting from Sea Beach Amaranth and Turns. The Contractor shall pre pare and submit a site-specific magnetometer work plan and the safety and health plan to the government for approval prior to mobilization. The work plan shall contain an UXO (unexploded ordnance) operation plan detailing the Contractors proposed methodol ogy to complete the magnetometer search and ordnance removal procedures. Prior to the commencement of work, the Contractor shall notify the 1st Coast Guard District, Aids to Navigation Officer, of his proposed operations, including location and duration o f operations and request that the information be published in a Notice to Mariners. This notification must be given at least three (3) weeks in advance so that it appears in the Notice to Mariners at least one week prior to the commencement of the beac h renourishment operation. The Contractor shall also coordinate all dredging and transportation activities with U.S. Coast Guard Activities New Jersey, Vessel Traffic Service Branch. The Contractor will mark work areas with buoys as coordinated with the US CG. SURVEY OF THE DREDGING INDUSTRY Part 1 The following is a confidential survey questionnaire designed to appraise the US Army Corps of Engineers, NY District, of prospective dredging/beach renourishment contractors project execution capabilities. Please provide your response to the following q uestions. At the end of this survey you will be asked to provide your comments. General 1) Have you ever worked on dredging/ beach renourishment jobs similar in nature to this project? If so, please describe the project and for whom the work was performed. Identify a point of contact and phone number. 2) Have you performed dredging/ beach renourishment within the coastal waters of the New Jersey? 3) Would you be willing to bid on the project described above? If the answer is No, please explain why not? 4) Would you be bidding on this project as a sole contractor, prime contractor with subcontractor(s) or as a joint venture? 5) Is there a dollar limit on the size contract that you would bid? 6) What is the largest dredging/ beach renourishment contract (in dollar amounts) on which you were the prime contractor? 7) What is your bonding capacity per contract? What is your total bonding capacity? 8) Have you worked with environmental window restrictions, e.g., Piper Plover, Sea Turtle? 9) Is your company a small or large business as defined by the SBA? Equipment 10) What type of dredge equipment and land-based equipment do you own and/or operate that is suitable for the work described? For each dredge that you list, please specify its capacity, bucket size(s), pump horsepower, and other salient characteristics. 11) Identify which dredge(s), including support equipment (tug, scows, etc.), you would employ on this project. 12) How many hopper scows do you have available for use? Please list them and provide their capacity. Air Quality Considerations The Corps is currently in discussions with regulatory agencies concerning air quality. Initial discussions with these agencies indicate that the overall emissions from the equipment to be used may cause the metropolitan area to exceed state emission limits . Your responses to the following questions will provide valuable information for future discussions with these agencies. 13) Do you have any information (i.e., engine manufacturer statements on emissions characteristics, etc.) or data (engine model, manufacturer, year, etc.) available on the emission levels from your dredge, tugboat, scow, etc.? If so, would you please provi de us this information with your response along with a point of contact and phone number? 14) Have you had experience with the use of alternative fuels, admixtures, or retrofitting of equipment to reduce emission levels? If so please identify the project, the nature of the alteration to the previous operating pattern. Would you please provide u s with a point of contact and phone number so that more detailed information could gathered at a future date? 15) Do you believe that the use of an electric powered dredge is a viable alternate to a diesel powered hopper, clamshell and excavator dredge? Do you own or have available for your use an electric dredge? Would you provide us the landside infrastructure r equirements to support your electric dredge(s)? 16) Would you be willing to purchase emission reduction credits (ERC) in lieu of using alternative fuels, admixtures, or retrofitting equipment? Have you ever purchased such credits? If so please identify the project, a point of contact and phone number. 17) Would you be willing to be part of a field trial for emission level monitoring? Have you ever been involved with a field trial study previously? If so, please provide us the point of contact for that study. 18) Would you be willing to be part of a field trial of the use of alternative fuels, admixtures, the retrofitting equipment to reduce emission levels, or some combination of those three measures? Have you ever been involved in a field trial study of this nature previously? If so, please provide us the point of contact for that study. 19) There exists the potential that operational constraints, or reduction in hours worked on a poor air quality day, or both might be imposed as part of the contract document. Would the possibility of the imposition of such constraints affect your decision to submit a bid? Please note that this notice is not a commitment on the part of the Government to award a contract as a result of this notice or to pay for any information received. This synopsis neither constitutes a Request for Proposal or Invitation for Bid, nor does it restrict the Government to an ultimate acquisition approach. The Government should not construe this Sources Sought Synopsis as a commitment for any purpose. The Government does not intend to rank submittals or provide any reply to interested firms. Submittals will be used for market survey information only. Contractors Comments or Recommendations:
- Place of Performance
- Address: US Army Engineer District, New York CENAN-CT, 26 Federal Plaza, New York NY
- Zip Code: 10278-0090
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 10278-0090
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