SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- Presque Isle Beach Nourishment
- Notice Date
- 12/16/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 212321
— Construction Sand and Gravel Mining
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Engineer District, Buffalo, 1776 Niagara St., Buffalo, New York, 14207-3199
- ZIP Code
- 14207-3199
- Solicitation Number
- W912P4-09-B-0002
- Point of Contact
- Eila A. Olson,, Phone: 7168794250
- E-Mail Address
-
eila.a.olson@usace.army.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- 8a Competitive
- Description
- SCOPE OF WORK PRESQUE ISLE BEACH NOURISHMENT Scope of Work: Work consists of, but is not limited to: purchase, delivery and placement of sand at designated locations along the beaches of Presque Isle State Park (PISP) peninsula for the purposes of beach nourishment. The sand shall be transported from an existing site stockpile, and additional quantities supplied by the Contractor from off-site sources (Type S sand). Work shall also include excavating sand from designated locations along the beaches (tombolo work) and delivering/spreading that sand at designated beach locations. All off-site sand shall be delivered and off-loaded at the North Pier which is equipped with mooring piles for docking delivery vessels and off-loading sand. Sand shall not be trucked to the site. Work shall be sequenced in strict accordance with environmental date restrictions. Due to the presence of a designated critical habitat area (DCHA), there is an environmental restriction against working in certain site areas between 01 April and 01 July each year. If the Piping Plover bird species is observed on Presque Isle, then the restriction within the DCHA is extended until 31 August for that year, and may be required for subsequent years. The DCHA extends over approximately 50% of the peninsula. Sand Requirements: Type S Beach sand fill shall be obtained from an approved commercial supplier. Type S sand fill shall be reasonably well-graded, sound, hard, free of organics and other foreign and objectionable materials, and be approved by the Contracting Officer. Material furnished from an upland source shall be mined from clean, felsic-rich sand and gravel pits containing predominantly quartz and feldspar minerals. In addition, no more than 2 percent of the total passing the #100 and #200 sieves shall have carbonate mineralization. It shall meet the gradation requirements listed below. U.S. Standard Percent Finer Sieve Size by Weight 3/8 Inch 100 No. 4 90-100 No. 8 70-100 No. 16 45-83 No. 30 20-69 No. 50 10-34 No. 100 0-5 No. 200 0-2 The planned date for releasing the actual solicitation is 23 January 2009. A thirty day period is expected for the submission of proposals with the tentative proposal due date being 23 Febuary 2009.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Presque Isle State Park, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
- Record
- SN01719666-W 20081218/081216215237-f030aa329915857e01effba443955c84 (fbodaily.com)
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