Virtual Industry Day for FY27 USACE Enterprise Dredge Delivery Center National Small Business MATOC

Virtual Industry Day for FY27 USACE Enterprise Dredge Delivery Center National Small Business MATOC

The Virtual Industry Day Meeting for the USACE Enterprise Dredge Delivery Center National Small Business MATOC will occur on 12 January 2027 from 1300ET to 16:00ET via Teams.  All interested dredging companies are encouraged to attend. 

If you would like to provide comments or questions prior to the Industry day, please do so on wwww.projnet.org.  All questions or comments are due by 04 January 2027 at 1100 ET.

Solicitation Number: W912PM27RA007
Bidder Inquiry Key: PV63ES-IJ49PU

National Small Business Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC):

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) executes construction contracts for regular, reoccurring, and emergency National Enterprise Dredging requirements at various coastal harbors, inland rivers, canals, and connecting channels throughout the United States. Individual projects are typically annual requirements and may utilize mechanical, hydraulic, or a combination of dredging equipment and techniques with activities to include but not limited to maintenance and new work dredging, dredged material placement, and other activities such as Confined Disposal Facility (CDF), Dredged Material Disposal Facility (DMDF), or upland placement site maintenance, groundskeeping, other earthwork at placement sites, surveying, or other work connected with dredging and placement requirements. Task orders issued under this MATOC will require the contractor to mobilize dredge plant and support vessels to the project location, perform dredging as shown on the respective plan(s), place dredged material—which may include beach nourishment, open-water placement, CDFs, DMDFs, beneficial use, or alternative placement strategies as indicated in individual task orders—, provide for any necessary environmental required protected species observers (PSOs) or environmental surveys, and demobilize once complete.

The maximum ordering capacity for the 5-year ordering period of the MATOC and maximum task order amounts are TBD.

Below are the draft source selection criteria proposed:

1. FACTOR 1: Technical Capability
2. a. Submission Requirements:
   1. Dredge Information: The offeror shall provide documentation for any dredges being proposed for use under this solicitation/contract, and any subsequent task orders. If the proposal does not include at least one of the identified dredges below, then Factor 1 will be rated “Unacceptable”. Proposed dredges must include a minimum of at least one of the following:

1. Cutter Suction Dredge - employs a mechanical cutter to break up material which is then excavated hydraulically and transported to the placement site through a pipeline.
   1. Minimum Requirement: 10-inch discharge diameter or larger
   2. Mechanical Dredge - uses of some form of bucket to excavate and raise submerged material.
      1. Minimum Requirement: 5 cubic yard bucket or larger

Offeror can submit more than one dredge(s) that meets the minimum requirements above in responding to this evaluation factor. Dredges that are still under construction or are in the process of undergoing major reconstruction will not be considered.

The dredge documentation must include the following information:

1. dredge type;
2. certify that the dredge meets minimum requirements stated above;
3. proof offeror owns the dredges submitted (leased dredges are not acceptable).

1. FACTOR 2: Past Performance
   1. Submission Requirements: Offerors will be required to provide three (3) past performance examples of recent and relevant maintenance dredging projects for the type of dredge submitted under Factor 1 – Technical Capability, which demonstrate that they have experience accomplishing the following: dredging of Navigation Channels, Rivers, Harbors, Inland Waterways with depths ranging from 6 feet to 50 feet. The past performance examples must include dredging that has been performed within the last six (6) years from the date of the solicitation. 

In addition to submitted examples, the Government may review any other sources of information for evaluation of past performance.

If the Offeror is proposing as a Joint Venture (JV), Partnership and/or Teaming Arrangement and past performance cannot be provided as such, each partner shall submit past performance information but shall not exceed the three (3) projects total for this factor.

1. Note 1: NAA: The Offeror will be required to provide documentation related to EM 385-1-1 requirements such as Floating Service Naval Architecture Analysis (NAA) with either MATOC or Task Order proposal.

        2.  Note 2: The Offeror may be required to submit a letter of commitment with their proposal from a surety that confirms that the offeror's bonding capacity meets a specified minimum amount.

Please RSVP no later than 9AM ET 11 January 2027 to both Ros Shoemaker and Elizabeth (Lisa) Trimble at Rosalind.m.shoemaker@usace.army.mil and Elizabeth.M.Trimble@usace.army.mil if you plan to attend the Industry Day.  A Teams calendar invite will be sent out to all RSVP’s.