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Advanced Notice for the Repair of the Vessel Mooring Structure at the USACE Albany Field Office, Troy Lock & Dam located in Troy, NY:

U.S. Army Engineer District, New York, CENAN-CT, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278-0090. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District intends to issue a solicitation package seeking to award a Firm-Fixed Price contract for the Repair of the Vessel Mooring Structure at the USACE Albany Field Office, Troy Lock & Dam located in Troy, NY. This project will be solicited as a Small Business set -aside via an Invitation for Bid (IFB)/Firm Fixed Price contract.

Project Description:

The mooring structure is located downstream of Troy Lock & Dam on the Hudson River. The mooring structure is currently used by public and private ships when preparing to enter and exit the lock. The mooring structure, constructed in 1968, is a diaphragm type cellular structure. It consists of seventeen steel ½ inch sheet pile cellular filled with crushed stone and covered by a concrete deck. The mooring structure has a timber fender system consisting of seven rows of oak rubbing strips that are fastened along the entire length of the structure. There are nine cast iron snubbing posts and eight ladders.

The repair project includes the following elements:

1. Replace timber rubbing fenders with composite material fendering system.


2. Replace fendering system supports and tie plates.


3. Repair damaged ladders and metal grating.


4. Removal and Replacement eight of seventeen concrete decks which have settled within the sheet piles.


5. Repair leaks along cell walls and fill voids.


6. Clear vegetation growing on the concrete decks of the structure, trim tree branches directly above the structure to include removal of one tree.

There will be no land access to this vessel mooring structure, all work shall be performed via water access only.

The mooring structure is located adjacent to the City of Troy’s public boat launch. Contract work in no way shall impact the operation of the boat launch. The contractor shall be responsible to install appropriate safety measures on shore and in the water to segregate the project work area from the public boat launch. The public boat launch is typically the most active from mid-April to the end of May during the annual striped bass spawning season.

The contractor will be required to procure all required permits, certifications, and licenses required by Federal, State, and local laws for the execution of this work and must perform the necessary investigations and analysis required to prepare the applications. Permits might include, but are not limited to, those needed for work in the vicinity of structures potentially listed on the National Register of Historic Places, compliance with USACE Nationwide Permits (NWP) 3 and 18, wetland delineation and mitigation (if required), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) permits and New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) permits and shall submit evidence of such permits and approvals to the Government.

The NAICS Code is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction. The estimated construction cost is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. The performance period shall be approximately 365 calendar days from the issuance of the NTP. Award is projected in December 2024.

Bids will be submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Contracting Division, at 26 Federal Plaza, room 16-300. All questions must be submitted in writing via email. SAM.gov will be utilized to issue the Solicitation and any amendments, if any. Telephone, email, or fax requests for the solicitation will not be accepted or honored. Paper copies of this solicitation and amendments, if any, will not be available or issued.

All vendors who want access to the solicitation must be registered with SAM.gov. Business opportunities can be located in SAM.gov. To keep informed of changes, check SAM.gov frequently. Project specification files and drawings are portable document files (PDF). Prospective contractors must be registered in SAM.gov prior to award. Lack of registration in SAM.gov may make an offeror or bidder ineligible for award.

Direct all contracting questions by e-mail to the Contract Specialist Ms. Denisse Soto at denisse.m.soto@usace.army.mil and the Contracting Officer, Mr. Mohenda Suragel at mohenda.r.surage@usace.army.mil.

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