Presolicitation
New Orleans Harbor and Various Bar Channels Cutterhead Dredge 3-2025
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. W912P825B00032
Due in 175 days
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District plans a solicitation for one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge to work in the New Orleans Harbor reach of the Mississippi River and nearby channels in Louisiana. The notice puts the project magnitude at $10 million to $25 million. This is a pre-solicitation; the actual solicitation and bid opening date come later.
Watch out for
- Requires a full dredge with crew. You must provide a working hydraulic cutterhead dredge and operators, which takes heavy equipment and capital most small businesses do not have unless they already own or can team for one.
one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge
- Large project size. A project of $10 million to $25 million usually carries bonding and insurance requirements that the notice does not detail.
The magnitude of construction range for this Dredge project is between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00.
- Solicitation not yet released in this text. The text says the solicitation would be issued on or about 15 April 2025 with a bid opening date set later, so dates and requirements here may be superseded by the solicitation.
This Solicitation will be issued on or about 15 April 2025 and a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment.
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Full brief
What they want
- Furnish one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge
- Dredge in the New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River
- Also work in lock forebays of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Bayou Lafourche, Baptiste Collette, Houma Navigation Canal and Barataria Bar Channel
- Place of performance
- Louisiana: New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River and listed bar channels and waterways
- Estimated value
- Magnitude of construction between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00
- Offers due
- 2027-03-31T11:00:00-05:00 (response deadline field); the text says the bid opening date will be established in a future amendment
What to include when you submit
- Solicitation documents will be posted on SAM.gov
- Register as an Interested Vendor on SAM.gov for the notice
- Contract specialists: Cori A. Caimi, 504-862-1352, Cori.A.Caimi@usace.army.mil; Bambi Raja, 504-862-1499, Bambi.l.raja@usace.army.mil
You must have
- Registered in SAM 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
- Bid opening date and time (to be set in a future amendment)
- Contract duration and dredging quantities
- Bonding and insurance requirements
- Evaluation basis for award
- Set-aside status (none listed)
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Key facts
- Response due
- Mar 31, 2027, 4:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Mar 31, 2025
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Solicitation
- W912P825B00032
- 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
- LA
- Contracting contact
- Bambi RajaBambi.L.Raja@usace.army.mil5048621499
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Mississippi River, New Orleans Harbor and Various Bar Channels Cutterhead Dredge Nos. 3-2025 (OM25032) The work consists offurnishing one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge. Work will be performed in the New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River, adjacent lock forebays of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Bayou Lafourche, Baptiste Collette, Houma Navigation Canal, and Barataria Bar Channel. 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 15 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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