Presolicitation
Mississippi River, New Orleans Harbor Cutterhead Dredge No. 2-2025
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. W912P825BA003
Due in 215 days
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The Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, plans to hire a contractor to provide one fully crewed hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge for New Orleans Harbor on the Mississippi River and nearby Gulf Intracoastal Waterway lock forebays. The stated construction magnitude is between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000.00. This is a presolicitation, so the solicitation documents are not out yet.
Watch out for
- Requires a dredge and crew. The contractor must supply a complete, crewed hydraulic dredge, which means heavy equipment or a partner who owns one.
The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge.
- Large project size. The $5 to $10 million range may call for bonding and substantial working capital, though the notice does not state bonding requirements.
The magnitude of construction range for this Dredge project is between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000.00.
- Dates are unclear. The text says the solicitation would be issued around 11 April 2025 and a bid opening is not set, while the listed deadline is in 2027, so check SAM.gov for the current status.
This solicitation will be issued on or about 11 April 2025 and a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment.
Read from the notice text only.
Full brief
What they want
- Furnish one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge
- Work in the New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River
- Work in adjacent lock forebays of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
- Place of performance
- New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River and adjacent lock forebays of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, New Orleans, LA
- Estimated value
- Magnitude of construction between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000.00
- Offers due
- 2027-05-10T11:00:00-05:00 (response deadline field); the text says a bid opening date will be set in a future amendment
- How to submit
- Not stated in the presolicitation; solicitation documents will be posted on SAM.gov
What to include when you submit
- Register as an Interested Vendor on SAM.gov by clicking the solicitation title
- Contract specialists: Cori A. Caimi (504-862-1352, Cori.A.Caimi@usace.army.mil) or Bambi Raja (504-862-1499, Bambi.l.raja@usace.army.mil)
You must have
- Active SAM registration to receive a government contract 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 type, base period and options
- Evaluation method
- Bonding, insurance and licensing requirements
- Set-aside status (listed as none)
- Actual bid opening date
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Key facts
- Response due
- May 10, 2027, 4:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Mar 28, 2025
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Solicitation
- W912P825BA003
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army
- Office
- W07V Endist New Orleans
- NAICS
- 237990
- Product/service code
- Y1KF
- Business type
- Construction & renovation
- Place of performance
- New Orleans, LA
- Contracting contact
- Cori A. CaimiCori.A.Caimi@usace.army.mil5048621352
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Mississippi River, New Orleans Harbor Cutterhead Dredge No. 2-2025 The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge. Work will be performed in the New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River and adjacent lock forebays of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The magnitude of construction range for this Dredge project is between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000.00. This solicitation will be issued on or about 11 April 2025 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 Bambi Raja at 504-862-1499 (email Bambi.l.raja@usace.army.mil).
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