SUBJECT: Jacksonville Harbor, Maintenance Dredging, 47-Foot & 40-Foot Project, Duval County, Florida SOLICITATION NUMBER: W912EP23B0015 RESPONSE DATE: 04 August 2023 CONTRACT SPECIALIST NAME & PHONE NUMBER: Timothy G. Humphrey, (904) 232-1072 A Pre-Bid Conference has been scheduled for July 20, 2023 at 10:00am, EDT. The call-in number is: 1-844-800-2712. Access code: 199 262 9798 and the link to be utilized is as follows: https://usace1.webex.com/meet/tedra.n.thompson. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The project, which is located at Duval County, consists of maintenance dredging in the Jacksonville Harbor channel. The contract is split between a Base and two Options. The contract Base element consists of maintenance dredging between portions of Cut-42 and Turning Basin. Option A includes portions of Cut-17 through Cut-42. Option B includes portions of Cut-52 through the Lower Terminal Channel. Material removed from the Base and Option A locations will be disposed of in the Ocean Dredge Material Disposal Site (ODMDS), while material from Option B will be disposed into Bartram Island Cell F. Work also includes turbidity monitoring, endangered species observers (hopper dredges only), sea turtle trawl-sweeping (hopper dredges only), and marine animal observers (clamshell dredges only). The Invitation for Bid (IFB) will be issued on or about 05 July 2023 and bids will be due on or about 04 August 2023. NAICS Code 237990, Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities. The Small Business Standard is $37 million The Magnitude of construction is between $10,000,000.00 and 25,000,000.00. The period of performance associated with this requirement is: 160 calendar days after receipt of the Notice to Proceed (NTP). The contractor shall commence work within 60 calendar days of receipt of the Notice to Proceed (NTP). Said time, which is inclusive of commencement provides 100 calendar days for completion of the Base, 20 calendar days for completion of Option A, and 40 calendar days for completion of Option B. THIS IS AN UNRESTRICTED REQUIREMENT; ALL INTERESTED BIDDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE. Solicitation will be issued in electronic format only and will be posted on the Sam.gov website at https://sam.gov/. In order to receive notification of any amendments to this solicitation, interested vendors must REGISTER AS AN INTERESTED VENDOR on the Sam.gov website at https://sam.gov/. If you are not registered, the Government is not responsible with providing you with notification of any amendments to this solicitation. You must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) in order to be eligible to receive an award from this solicitation. For additional information, please call 866-606-8220 or visit the SAM website at https://www.sam.gov/. Technical inquiries and questions relating to this solicitation are to be submitted via Bidder Inquiry in ProjNet at (https://www.projnet.org) No Later Than (NLT) July 20, 2023 at 5:00pm, EDT. To submit and review inquiry items, prospective vendors will need to use the Bidder Inquiry Key presented below and follow the instructions listed below the key for access. A prospective vendor who submits a comment /question will receive an acknowledgement of their comment/question via email, followed by an answer to the comment/question after it has been processed by our technical team. All timely questions and approved answers will be made available through ProjNet. The Solicitation Number is: W912EP23B0015 The Bidder Inquiry Key is: UEJQGQ-2P6SST *The value for this project is based on a financial range. The value is listed as the highest possible cost from the range provided by a stakeholder or official project document.