Presolicitation
Mississippi River, New Orleans Harbor Cutterhead Dredge No. 2-2025
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. W912P825BA0003
Due in 215 days
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The Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, will buy one fully crewed hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge for work in the New Orleans Harbor reach of the Mississippi River and nearby Gulf Intracoastal Waterway lock forebays. The construction range is stated as $5 million to $10 million. This is a presolicitation; the solicitation was expected on or about 11 April 2025.
Watch out for
- Specialized heavy equipment required. The work needs a complete dredge with crew, which is a large equipment investment few small businesses own.
The work consists of furnishing one fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge.
- Bid date and terms not yet fixed. The bid opening date and the real requirements are in later amendments and attached documents, so this notice is not enough to bid on.
a bid opening date will be established in a future amendment
Read from the notice text only.
Full brief
What they want
- One fully crewed and equipped hydraulic pipeline cutterhead dredge
- Dredging in the New Orleans Harbor Reach of the Mississippi River
- Dredging in adjacent lock forebays of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
- Contract type
- Sealed bid construction (bid opening to be set); exact contract type not stated
- 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
- Between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000.00 (magnitude of construction)
- Offers due
- 2027-05-10T11:00:00-05:00 (header response deadline); the text says a bid opening date will be set in a future amendment
- How to submit
- Not stated; solicitation documents will be posted on SAM.gov
What to include when you submit
- Download solicitation documents from the link on SAM.gov (PDF files)
- Register as an Interested Vendor on SAM.gov for marketing purposes (encouraged)
You must have
- Active SAM registration to receive an 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 length and quantities of dredging
- Set-aside status (header says none)
- Bonding and insurance requirements
- Bid opening date and the full solicitation documents
- Contract type
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Key facts
- Response due
- May 10, 2027, 4:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Mar 27, 2025
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Solicitation
- W912P825BA0003
- 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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