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 facility serves as a confined upland dredged material placement site located adjacent to the Port of Hampton Roads. Work activities include borrow area preparation to dewater saturated materials, the excavation and reclamation of dredged material, and the transportation of reclaimed materials to support various site improvement infrastructure projects.

Infrastructure requirements at CIDMMA involve the construction and maintenance of containment and division dikes using incremental vertical lifts to a specific compaction performance standard. Additional tasks include constructing access roads within containment cells, building spillway foundation pads, and placing reclaimed material as overburden to consolidate saturated soils. Contractors will also be responsible for excavating and stockpiling reclaimed materials, maintaining spillway components by removing saturated material from spillboxes, and maintaining effluent discharge pipes, outfalls, and aprons. The scope further extends to installing riprap for shoreline stabilization and performing miscellaneous steel work on spillbox structures.

This solicitation, identified as W9123621B5007, was classified under NAICS 237990 for Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and PSC Y1KF for Construction of Dredging Facilities. The project was designated as a Small Business Administration (SBA) set-aside. The government provided seven attachments, including a solicitation, plans, specifications, site visit information, and an abstract of offerors. Responses for this requirement were due by February 11, 2021.