SAM #W912HN27S5000

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway maintenance dredging at Hell Gate, Florida Passage, and Fields Cut

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Savannah District is researching industry capability for maintenance dredging at three Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway locations. - Government buyer: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District (W074 ENDIST Savannah). - Requested work: Maintenance dredging at Hell Gate, Georgia, with Florida Passage, Georgia, and Fields Cut, South Carolina, listed as options. - Hell Gate: approximately 200,000 cubic yards; authorized width of 150 feet and depth of 12 feet. Sediment may be pumped about four miles to tidal flats east of Ogeechee Bar for beneficial use. - Florida Passage: approximately 15,000 cubic yards; same authorized width and depth. Sediment may be pumped about nine miles to the same beneficial-use placement site. - Fields Cut: approximately 50,000 cubic yards; same authorized width and depth. Sediment will be placed in the adjacent DMCA 14B confined upland containment area. - Methods and scope: A hydraulic cutterhead dredge has traditionally been used, but other dredging methods may be considered. The work includes personnel, transportation, mobilization and demobilization, equipment, materials, and incidental work. - Estimated magnitude and duration: $5 million to $10 million; anticipated performance is 165 days from Notice to Proceed. - OEMs and vendors: No OEMs, vendors, or named products are identified.

Description

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ONLY. The Savannah District Corps of Engineers is requesting information regarding the market capabilities of potential contractors that can perform maintenance and unclassified dredging on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) sections of waterway Hell Gate and Florida Passage in Chatham County Georgia and Fields Cut in Jasper County South Carolina. This request does not obligate the Government in any way to post a Request for Proposal or award a contract. Information received will be considered for the purpose of market research and determining how to best move forward with the procurement. Applicable NAICS code is 237990 with a size standard of $45.0M. The potential magnitude for this requirement is estimated to be between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. The FY26 Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) maintenance dredging contract provides construction services, including furnishing personnel, transportation, mobilization and demobilization, equipment and materials required in connection with maintenance dredging and incidental related work. This contract is traditionally performed with a hydraulic cutterhead dredge, but other methods will be considered. The duration is expected to be five months (165 days) from Notice to Proceed. The Savannah Districts area of responsibility (AOR) of the federally maintained channel in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway begins in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina and ends in Cumberland Sound, Georgia. The shallow draft federally maintained channel is twelve (12) feet deep MLLW with widths from ninety (90) feet in land cuts and one hundred fifty (150) feet in natural waterways. Savannah Districts FY26 AIWW maintenance dredging work is located within the state of Georgia (Chatham County) and in the state of South Carolina (Jasper County). The Hell Gate section of waterway is to be dredged to authorized width of 150 feet and depth of 12 feet. The work also includes options to dredge the Florida Passage and the Fields Cut sections of the waterway to authorized width of 150 feet and depth of 12 feet. Approximately two hundred thousand (200,000) cubic yards of maintenance material is anticipated to be removed from the Hell Gate section of the federally maintained channel in the waterway. Approximately fifteen thousand (15,000) cubic yards of maintenance material is anticipated to be removed from the Florida Passage section of the federally maintained channel in the waterway. Approximately fifty thousand (50,000) cubic yards of maintenance material is anticipated to be removed from the Fields Cut section of the federally maintained channel in the waterway. Sediment dredged from Hell Gate may be pumped approximately four (4) miles to a Beneficial Use placement site in tidal flats east of Ogeechee Bar. Sediment dredged from Florida Passage may be pumped approximately nine (9) miles to the Beneficial Use placement site in the tidal flats east of Ogeechee Bar. Sediment dredged from Fields Cut will be pumped to the adjacent confined upland containment area DMCA 14B. The attached Request for Information should be filled out and loaded via PIEE before the sources sought close on 20 November 2026, 11:00 a.m. (EST). Any questions should be emailed to the Contract Specialist, Rohan Bryan at Rohan.A.Bryan@usace.army.mil or Contracting Officer, Preston Jones at Preston.E.Jones@usace.army.mil. Additional Links:Department of Defense Procurement ToolboxPIEE Solicitation Module Link for W912HN27S5000Registration Instructions for the PIEE Solicitation ModuleWeb Based Training for the PIEE Solicitation Module

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