Presolicitation
Jacksonville Harbor Maintenance Dredging
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Enterprise Dredge Delivery Center (EDDC) plans to hire a contractor for FY27 maintenance dredging of Jacksonville Harbor, Florida. This is a presolicitation: the unrestricted, firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) solicitation is expected on or about November 2, 2026. Work is a base plus five options, finishing within 220 days after notice to proceed. More in the summary
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Enterprise Dredge Delivery Center (EDDC) plans to hire a contractor for FY27 maintenance dredging of Jacksonville Harbor, Florida. This is a presolicitation: the unrestricted, firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) solicitation is expected on or about November 2, 2026. Work is a base plus five options, finishing within 220 days after notice to proceed.
Who can bid
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM)
How to submit: The solicitation will be issued in electronic format only on SAM.gov; search for the solicitation number W912PM27BA003. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 16, 2026.
- Worth checking: Unrestricted competition. No set-aside applies, so small businesses compete with large dredging firms.
- Worth checking: Heavy dredging equipment. The work may need hopper and pipeline or mechanical dredges able to reach -47 ft MLLW, and work in Outstanding Florida Waters has an earlier finish date.
- Minor: Solicitation available electronically only. Paper copies and other ways of requesting the package will not be honored; look for it on SAM.gov by solicitation number.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Maintenance dredging in the roughly 20-mile federal channel, to a depth of -47 ft MLLW (mean lower low water), plus advanced maintenance and allowable over depths
- Use hopper and pipeline or mechanical dredges, depending on work location
- Move dredged sediment to Bartram Island Cell F (upland) and the Jacksonville ocean disposal site (ODMDS) Release Zone C1, about 6 nautical miles offshore
- Finish base work in Cut-17 Sta. 0+00 through Cut-41 Sta. 20+00, inside Outstanding Florida Waters, no later than May 20, 2027
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price
- Period of performance
- Start within 10 calendar days after notice to proceed; finish all work no later than 220 days after notice to proceed. Base: 120 calendar days. Option A: 15. Option B: 20. Option C: 30. Option D: 25. Option E: 10.
- Place of performance
- Jacksonville Harbor, FL
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- Dec 31, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- The solicitation will be issued in electronic format only on SAM.gov; search for the solicitation number W912PM27BA003
What to include when you submit
- The bid opening date will be specified in the solicitation when it is issued
- Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to receive an award
- Download documents at SAM.gov; check the website for posted changes and amendments
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation is not yet issued; the notice does not say how offers are evaluated or what they must contain.
- Whether a site visit is held, and whether a Davis-Bacon wage determination applies, are not stated.
- Bonding requirements are not stated.
- Estimated value is not stated. The $37,000,000.00 figure is the size standard for the NAICS code, not the contract value.
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: The solicitation will be issued in electronic format only on SAM.gov; search for the solicitation number W912PM27BA003. 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
- Oct 16, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- W074 ENDIST Wilmington, NC
- Product/service code
- Z1KF · Maintenance of Dredging Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237990)
- 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
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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