Solicitation
Calcasieu River and Pass, LA, Maintenance Dredging FY26, Mile 5.0 to Mile 17.0, Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes, LA
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. W912P826BA013
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The Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, wants a contractor to dredge the Calcasieu River Ship Channel (Mile 5.0 to Mile 17.0) in Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes, Louisiana, and place the material in nearby confined disposal facilities. The base work must be finished within 251 calendar days after notice to proceed, with optional extra work for Devil's Elbow, ditching and draining, and bird nesting prevention. It is a sealed bid (IFB) with no set-aside, and the Corps puts the size of the job at $25 million to $100 million.
Watch out for
- Very large job with a bid guarantee and bonds. The Corps puts the work at $25 million to $100 million, so you need a dredge fleet, big bonding capacity and a bid guarantee of up to $3 million.
The magnitude of construction is between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000.
- Part of the solicitation was not available to read. The drawings were too large to include and the middle of the specification (including the dredging technical section) was cut off, so some requirements may be missing from this summary.
- Must bid every item including options. A bid that skips any item, option items included, is rejected as non-responsive.
Failure to bid on all items will result in a non-responsive bid.
- Daily liquidated damages for late completion. Finishing after the 251-day deadline costs $4,770 for each calendar day of delay.
Contractor shall pay liquidated damages to the Government in the amount of $4,770.00
- Bid opening date not set. The bid opening will come by amendment, and the 2028 response date in SAM.gov may be a placeholder, so watch for amendments.
Bid opening to be established by future amendment.
- Busy shipping channel with delays. Tanker and tow traffic and Coast Guard rules for gas tankers will stop dredging at times, and a hurricane plan and Gulf pipeline crossings must be handled.
concerning the passage of LPG tankers, which will result in dredging delays.
- Bid price can be rejected as unbalanced. Prices that are unreasonable or out of balance across line items can get a bid thrown out.
- Government inspector accommodations and heavy compliance duties. You must supply a furnished office on the dredge for Corps inspectors, a full safety program, project signs, daily quality control reports and aerial photos at your own cost.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. 1 not read in full.
- W912P826BA013 Calcasieu River and Pass Maint Dred FY26 Mile 5.0 to Mile 17.0 Ed 26-024.pdf
- Plans Calcasieu River and Pass Maint Dred FY26 Mile 5.0 to Mile 17.pdf: too large
Full brief
What they want
- Dredge about 3.0 million cubic yards (plus 533,000 CY more at a separate price) from the Calcasieu River Ship Channel, Mile 5.0 to Mile 17.0
- Place the dredged material in the designated confined disposal facilities (CDFs) next to the river
- Build retention dikes at seven CDFs (12B, 13, 15, 17, E, H and M)
- Optional Work 1: dredge Devil's Elbow (about 1.36 million CY plus 240,000 CY) and build its dike
- Optional Work 2: ditching and draining of 12 disposal areas (about 205,000 linear feet in total)
- Optional Work 3: bird nesting prevention and avoidance measures (110 days)
- Aerial photo documentation from a crewed aircraft (drones are prohibited), surveys, and mobilization and demobilization
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price sealed bid (IFB) with unit-price and lump-sum items; options priced in the bid
- Period of performance
- Start within 10 calendar days after notice to proceed; finish base work within 251 calendar days after notice to proceed. Added time if options are used: 90 days for Optional Work 1, 100 days for Optional Work 2, none for Optional Work 3.
- Place of performance
- Calcasieu River Ship Channel, Mile 5.0 to Mile 17.0, Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes, Louisiana
- Estimated value
- Magnitude of construction between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000 (per the notice)
- How they'll choose
- Sealed bidding (IFB). Award is made as a whole to one bidder, and the prices of all options are added to the base price to compare bids. Bids can be rejected as unreasonable or unbalanced.
- Offers due
- Bid opening date and time not set yet; the notice says it will be established by amendment. SAM.gov lists a response deadline of 2028-06-12 10:00 AM Central, which may be a placeholder.
- How to submit
- Either email the bid to both Corps addresses (TAYLOR.H.BRANDON@USACE.ARMY.MIL and KAREN.D.HARGRAVE@USACE.ARMY.MIL) with the solicitation number in the subject line, or hand-carry or express-mail it to the New Orleans District Contracting Office, Room 172. Use only one method.
- Page limits
- Email size limit is 35 MB; larger bids must be zipped or split into numbered emails
What they'll judge offers on
- Total price including all options (base work, Optional Work 1, 2 and 3)
- Responsive bid with every line item priced
- Price reasonableness and no materially unbalanced line items
What to include when you submit
- Submit questions only through Bidder Inquiry in ProjNet (emailed questions are not accepted); the first question deadline was June 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM local time, and another period will be set later
- Price every bid item, including all optional work items
- Include the bid guarantee with the bid
- Complete Section 00 45 00 Representations and Certifications, or attach your SAM.gov Online Representations and Certifications that expire on or after the award date
- Acknowledge all amendments on the SF 1442
- Do not include Louisiana severance tax or wildlife and fisheries fees in the bid price
- Bid prices must be in U.S. currency and in English
You must have
- Active SAM.gov registration
Prospective contractors must register in the System for Award Management (SAM).
- Bid guarantee of 20 percent of the bid price or $3,000,000, whichever is less, submitted with the bid
The amount of the bid guarantee shall be twenty (20%) percent of the bid price or
- Performance and payment bonds from the winning bidder before notice to proceed
that performance and payment bonds shall be submitted in accordance with the
- Submit completed representations and certifications with the bid
Contractors must complete, and submit with their bid, the provisions located in Section 00 45 00.
- Full-time Level 1 Site Safety and Health Officer on site whenever work is performed, under EM 385-1-1
The Contractor must employ a minimum of one (1) Level 1 Full-time Site Safety and Health Officer to
- Use only domestic or designated-country construction materials (Buy American)
The Contractor shall use only domestic or designated country construction material in
- Use E-Verify for employment eligibility
comply with the requirements set forth in FAR clause 52.222-54 Employment
- No set-aside; open to all businesses
This solicitation is issued as unrestricted.
Not in the notice text
- The bid opening date and time (to be set by amendment)
- The technical dredging specifications, the National Dredging Quality Management section, quality control and environmental sections, which were cut off or not provided
- The drawings (the plans file was too large to read)
- The bond amounts and the number of calendar days to deliver bonds (blank on the SF 1442 in the text provided)
- Davis-Bacon wage rates that apply to the work
- Whether an on-site visit is scheduled (a pre-bid visit is encouraged but not required)
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Key facts
- Response due
- Jun 12, 2028, 3:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Jun 12, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- W912P826BA013
- 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
- LA
- Contracting contact
- Taylor H. Brandontaylor.h.brandon@usace.army.mil
What similar contracts paid
325 contracts at this agency under the same NAICS code, in the same state, had activity in the last 5 years, according to USAspending.gov. Small businesses won 26% of the dollars in this market over the last 3 fiscal years.
Typical contract$11.4MMiddle half: $3.1M to $29.1M
Typical per year$7.9MValue divided by years of performance
Before you respond
Full notice text from SAM.gov
This solicitation is issued as unrestricted. The NAICS code for this procurement is 237990. The magnitude of construction is between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000. The work consists of removal of material from within the Calcasieu River Ship Channel and satisfactory disposal within the designated confined disposal facilities adjacent to the Calcasieu River and Pass; all as shown on the drawings. Removal of material from within Devil’s Elbow, is included as optional work. The work also includes retention dike construction, surveys, and optional ditching and draining of disposal areas, and all operations incidental thereto. ***BID OPENING TO BE ESTABLISHED BY AMENDMENT***
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