Solicitation
Calcasieu Bar River Channel, Pascagoula Harbor, and Panama City Harbor Maintenance Dredging
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Enterprise Dredge Delivery Center plans to buy maintenance dredging at three Gulf Coast channels: Calcasieu River Bar Channel, Pascagoula Harbor and Panama City Harbor. This is an advance (presolicitation) notice; the solicitation is expected on or about 23 October 2026. The contract is unrestricted and firm fixed price. More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Nov 5, 2026. See the latest version.
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Summary of the version posted Oct 5, 2026. The notice was amended Nov 5, 2026. The due date moved from Mar 31, 2027 to Dec 7, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Enterprise Dredge Delivery Center plans to buy maintenance dredging at three Gulf Coast channels: Calcasieu River Bar Channel, Pascagoula Harbor and Panama City Harbor. This is an advance (presolicitation) notice; the solicitation is expected on or about 23 October 2026. The contract is unrestricted and firm fixed price.
Who can bid
- Active SAM registration to receive an award
- Unrestricted competition; NAICS 237990 with a $37,000,000.00 size standard
How to submit: Electronic only; the solicitation will be posted on SAM.gov, due Bid opening date will be specified in the solicitation (SAM.gov header shows Mar 31, 2027 15:00 -05:00). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
- Serious: Requires hopper dredge vessels. Bidders must supply fully crewed, equipped hopper dredges, which are very costly assets a small business would likely have to own, charter or team to get.
- Worth checking: Calcasieu end date not set. The Calcasieu performance period lists no end date (TBD), making scheduling and pricing harder.
- Worth checking: Davis-Bacon wages likely apply. Federal construction over $2,000 in the U.S. pays at least the Davis-Bacon wage rates in the wage determination attached to the solicitation. This summary doesn't name one: find it on SAM.gov and price your labor from it.
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- Minor: Solicitation not out yet. Bid opening date and full requirements are not available until the solicitation is issued.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Calcasieu River Bar Channel: one fully crewed, equipped self-propelled trailing suction hopper dredge, to -45 ft MLLW
- Pascagoula Harbor: a hopper dredge able to dredge to -46 ft MLLW
- Panama City Harbor: a medium to small hopper dredge able to dredge to -40 ft MLLW
- Place dredged material at the ocean disposal sites or channel placement areas named for each project
- Contract type
- Firm Fixed Price
- Period of performance
- Calcasieu: 15 January 2027 to TBD; Pascagoula: 01 April 2027 to 30 September 2027; Panama City: 01 August 2027 to 30 September 2027
- Place of performance
- Calcasieu River Bar Channel, Pascagoula Harbor and Panama City Harbor (the notice does not list states)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- Bid opening date will be specified in the solicitation (SAM.gov header shows Mar 31, 2027 15:00 -05:00) (from the version posted Oct 5, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- Electronic only; the solicitation will be posted on SAM.gov
What to include when you submit
- Solicitation expected on or about 23 October 2026
- Search SAM.gov for solicitation W912PM27BA002 and check for amendments
- Register to be on the plan holders list on SAM.gov if wanted
- No paper copies or other media will be provided
Not in the notice text
- Estimated contract value
- Award method and evaluation factors
- Bonding or insurance requirements
- Exact bid opening date
- Whether the three projects will be awarded together or separately
- Whether there's a site visit: this summary doesn't say. Check the solicitation and its amendments on SAM.gov.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Electronic only; the solicitation will be posted on SAM.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Construction contracts over $2,000 pay at least the local Davis-Bacon wage rates, from the wage determination in the solicitation. Price your labor from it: How to price a government contract, and how Davis-Bacon differs from the Service Contract Act.
Notice details
- Posted
- Nov 5, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- W074 ENDIST Wilmington, NC
- Product/service code
- Z1KF · Maintenance of Dredging Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237990)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Nov 5, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Dec 7, 2026
- Nov 5, 2026 · Solicitation (this version)Due Dec 7, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 5, 2026 · PresolicitationDate Mar 31, 2027
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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