Presolicitation
Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to the Gulf, Southwest Pass Maintenance Dredging Non- Continuous Mile 6.0 AHP to Mile 19.5 BHP Cutterhead Dredge No. 4-2026 Specification No. OM26278
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. W912P826BA021
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The Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District plans to solicit a fully crewed cutterhead dredge for maintenance dredging on the Mississippi River at Southwest Pass. This is a presolicitation notice, and the project is estimated at $10 million to $25 million. Work may also be done in other parts of the New Orleans District.
Watch out for
- Heavy equipment requirement. You must supply a complete, crewed cutterhead dredge with a large discharge pipe, which takes major marine equipment few small businesses own.
furnishing one fully crewed and equipped cutterhead dredge, with a dredge discharge size of 30 inches or greater inside diameter (ID)
- Large contract size. A project of this size usually brings bonding and insurance needs that can be hard for a small firm to meet.
between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00
- Work location not fully defined. Work may extend beyond the named pass, which makes planning and pricing harder.
Work will be performed at the Mississippi River Southwest Pass Area and possibly in other areas of the New Orleans District.
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Full brief
What they want
- One fully crewed and equipped cutterhead dredge with a discharge pipe of 30 inches or greater inside diameter
- Maintenance dredging on the Mississippi River, Southwest Pass, Mile 6.0 AHP to Mile 19.5 BHP (non-continuous)
- All attendant plant (equipment) and crew
- Place of performance
- Mississippi River Southwest Pass area, and possibly other areas of the New Orleans District (listed as Plaquemine, LA)
- Estimated value
- Between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00 (magnitude of construction)
- Offers due
- 2028-02-20T11:00:00-06:00 (response deadline field); the notice says the bid opening date will be set in a future amendment
- How to submit
- Not stated; solicitation documents will be posted on SAM.gov
What to include when you submit
- Solicitation expected to be issued on or about 20 February 2026
- Register as an Interested Vendor on SAM.gov to be listed
- Contact the contract specialists listed in the notice with questions
You must have
- Registered in SAM (System for Award Management) to receive an award
Offerers must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award.
Not in the notice text
- Contract length and period of performance
- Contract type and how award is decided
- Bid opening date and how to submit a bid
- Bonding and insurance requirements
- Full specifications (Specification No. OM26278 in the solicitation documents)
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Key facts
- Response due
- Feb 20, 2028, 5:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Feb 6, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Solicitation
- W912P826BA021
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army
- Office
- W07V Endist New Orleans
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- NAICS
- 237990
- Product/service code
- Y1KF
- Business type
- Construction & renovation
- Place of performance
- Plaquemine, LA
- Contracting contact
- Cori A. CaimiCori.A.Caimi@usace.army.mil5048621352
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to the Gulf, Southwest Pass Maintenance Dredging Non-Continuous Mile 6.0 AHP to Mile 19.5 BHP Cutterhead Dredge No. 4-2026 Specification No. OM26278 The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped cutterhead dredge, with a dredge discharge size of 30 inches or greater inside diameter (ID), complete in all respects, including all attendant plant, and crew. Work will be performed at the Mississippi River Southwest Pass Area and possibly in other areas of the New Orleans District. The magnitude of construction range for this Dredge project is between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00. This solicitation will be issued on or about 20 February 2026 and a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment. The solicitation documents for this procurement will be posted on Sam.gov. You can access these files from a link located on Sam.gov (www.SAM.gov). You will need the adobe acrobat reader for .pdf files (www.adobe.com) in order to open most files posted by the New Orleans District. You are encouraged, for marketing purposes, to register as an Interested Vendor in beta.Sam.gov (www.beta.SAM.gov). This can be done by clicking on the solicitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerers are also encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administration's Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerers must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: http://www.sam.gov. The Contract Specialists for this solicitation is Cori A.Caimi at 504-862-1352 (email Cori.A.Caimi@usace.army.mil) or Jeffrey Sprunger at 504-862-1631 (email jeffrey.s.sprunger@usace.army.mil).
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