Craney Island Earthwork IDIQ, Portsmouth, Virginia

The Department of the Army, Norfolk District, issued this solicitation for an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to perform site improvements at the Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area (CIDMMA) in Portsmouth, Virginia. The project is classified under NAICS 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction, and PSC Y1KF, Construction of Dredging Facilities. This opportunity was designated as an SBA set-aside. The primary scope of work involves the preparation of borrow areas to dewater saturated materials, the excavation and reclamation of dredged material, and the transportation of these materials for the construction of site infrastructure.

Infrastructure tasks at the CIDMMA facility include the construction and maintenance of containment and division dikes using incremental vertical lifts to meet compaction performance standards. Additional activities involve constructing access roads and spillway foundation pads, placing reclaimed material as overburden for consolidation, and stockpiling excavated material. Maintenance services include excavating saturated material from spillways and spillboxes, servicing effluent discharge pipes and outfalls, installing riprap for shoreline stabilization, and performing miscellaneous steel work on spillbox structures.

The solicitation was published on January 12, 2021, with a final response deadline of February 11, 2021. Documentation for this requirement includes seven attachments, such as the original solicitation, revised plans, site visit information, and an abstract of offerors. Multiple amendments were issued during the solicitation period to provide updated wage determinations and site visit details. All performance is centered at the confined upland dredged material placement site in Portsmouth.