Sources Sought
Sources Sought for FY26 Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Maintenance Dredging ????????? Select Sites
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, is asking dredging firms about their ability to do maintenance dredging on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at Hell Gate and Florida Passage in Chatham County, Georgia, and Fields Cut in Jasper County, South Carolina. This is a sources sought notice for market research only, not a request for offers. The response due date is November 20, 2026, 11:00 AM Eastern; the potential value is $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Department of the Army who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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The Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, is asking dredging firms about their ability to do maintenance dredging on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at Hell Gate and Florida Passage in Chatham County, Georgia, and Fields Cut in Jasper County, South Carolina. This is a sources sought notice for market research only, not a request for offers. The response due date is November 20, 2026, 11:00 AM Eastern; the potential value is $5,000,000 to $10,000,000.
How to submit: Fill out the attached Request for Information and load it via PIEE (the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment, a federal online portal). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 19, 2026.
- Worth checking: Heavy equipment needed. The work is traditionally done with a hydraulic cutterhead dredge and pumping pipelines of several miles, which most small firms do not own.
- Minor: Sources sought only, no award. The Government is gathering market information and is not committing to post a request for proposal or award a contract.
- Minor: Two of the three sites are options. Hell Gate is the base work. Florida Passage and Fields Cut are options, so the final scope may be smaller.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Maintenance dredging of Hell Gate to 150 feet wide and 12 feet deep, about 200,000 cubic yards of material
- Options to dredge Florida Passage (about 15,000 cubic yards) and Fields Cut (about 50,000 cubic yards) to the same width and depth
- Furnish personnel, transportation, mobilization and demobilization, equipment and materials
- Pump Hell Gate and Florida Passage material about 4 and 9 miles to the Beneficial Use placement site in tidal flats east of Ogeechee Bar
- Pump Fields Cut material to the confined upland containment area DMCA 14B
- Work is traditionally done with a hydraulic cutterhead dredge, but other methods will be considered
- Period of performance
- Expected to be five months (165 days) from Notice to Proceed
- Place of performance
- Hell Gate and Florida Passage, Chatham County, Georgia; Fields Cut, Jasper County, South Carolina
- Estimated value
- Between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 (the notice's estimate of the potential magnitude)
- Offers due
- November 20, 2026, 11:00 AM Eastern
- How to submit
- Fill out the attached Request for Information and load it via PIEE (the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment, a federal online portal)
What to include when you submit
- Fill out the attached Request for Information form
- Send questions by email to Contract Specialist Rohan Bryan (Rohan.A.Bryan@usace.army.mil) or Contracting Officer Preston Jones (Preston.E.Jones@usace.army.mil)
Not in the notice text
- The Request for Information form is an attachment loaded via PIEE; its questions were not read.
- The set-aside is not stated on SAM.gov. The notice gives a size standard of $45.0M for NAICS code 237990.
- Whether there is a site visit, and whether one is required, is not stated.
- Which wage rule applies, including whether a Davis-Bacon wage determination (the federal minimum pay rate for construction workers) is used, is not stated.
- Bonding requirements and contract type are not stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
- 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 19, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- W074 ENDIST Savannah, GA
- 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: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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