IDIQ Contract for Rental of 24 Inch Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge for Dredging Mobile District Navigation Projects in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida

Contractors shall complete all work under their contract in accordance with schedules that are established in each Task Order.  Work will vary from site to site, or location, and will require extensive knowledge of dredging construction projects.  The Contractor will furnish said equipment with operators and all necessary materials, equipment, supplies, labor, transportation, including fuel, power and water and perform all work assigned in accordance with specifications.

Note No. 1:  All prospective contractors and their subcontractors and suppliers must be registered in SAM.gov before they will be allowed to download solicitation information.  Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://sam.gov/content/home prior to award of this contract.  Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website https://wawf.eb.mil OR https://piee.eb.mil OR https://piee.eb.mil/xhtml/unauth/home/login.xhtml.  See attachments PIEE Solicitation Module Vendor Access Instructions and SOP PIEE Proposal Manager Offeror for instructions on getting access to the PIEE Solicitation Module and submitting your proposal. Registration for plans and specifications should be made via the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website https://wawf.eb.mil.  If you are not registered, the United States Government is not responsible for providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation.  The solicitation will be available only as a direct download.  This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM.  Neither telephonic, mailed, nor fax requests will be accepted.  Registration should be completed one week prior to the issue date.  It is therefore the Contractor’s responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments to this solicitation.  The plans and specifications and all notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto.  Plans and specifications will not be provided in a printed-paper format; however, the Government reserves the right to revert to paper medium when it is determined to be in the Government's best interest.  NOTE:  This solicitation is in .pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.

Note No. 2:  All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in electronic format with the proposal.

Note No. 3: Critical path method (network analysis system) is not required.

Note No. 4: For this job, a small business is defined as having average annual receipts of less than $32,500,000.00 for the past three years.

Note No. 5:  It is anticipated that this solicitation will not have bid options.  However, optional bid items may be added if it is determined to be in the Government’s best interest.

Note No. 6:  All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website https://wawf.eb.mil.  Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc.) are available on the Internet at:  The Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website https://wawf.eb.mil. Address questions concerning downloading of plans/specifications to the Contract Specialists indicated above.

Note No. 8:  Pre-proposal conference and Site Visit information will be posted with the solicitation.

Note No. 9:  The request for information (RFI) process for bidder inquiries during the advertisement period will be through the ProjNet internet-based system, and specifics will be contained in the RFP solicitation package available exclusively from Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website https://wawf.eb.mil.  Other forms of communicating RFIs to the Government will not be honored.  The Government will try to respond to all questions. However, responses may not be furnished to all questions and particularly those received late in the advertisement period (0-10 days prior to bid opening).

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