Grays Harbor Inner Harbor Dredging

The Grays Harbor and Chehalis River Federal Navigation Channel is located in Grays HarborCounty on the southwest coast of Washington State. The navigation channel traverses the harbor toprovide safe navigation and wide turning areas for large ships while they traverse Grays Harbor fromthe Pacific Ocean to the Port of Grays Harbor and local facilities at the cities of Aberdeen, Hoquiam,and Cosmopolis. This single contract for the period of 16 July 2023 through 14 February 2026,inclusive of options, would require the removal of about 1 million cubic yards (CY) of accumulatedsediment from the navigation channel in each of three dredging windows, specifically from the innerharbor reaches (middle of the harbor up to just upstream of the main Port terminals in Aberdeen,WA). Dredging will be accomplished by a mechanical clamshell dredge and placed at designatedopen water placement sites using bottom dump barges. Dredging will occur every year within theapproved Environmental In-Water Work

windows of 16 July through 14 February of any given year,with the exception of a period in which the channels will be closed for Tribal fishing starting betweenthe end of Aug and 30 Sep through 30 November of any given year. Dredged material placementshall be at the South Jetty Placement site (required site from 16 Jul through 1 Oct) and Pt. ChehalisPlacement Site (1 Oct through 14 February).The Period of Performance for this effort is a 12-month base year + two (2) 12 month-optionyears.IMPORTANT NOTICE:All contractors proposing on Department of Defense (DoD) solicitations mustbe registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database prior toaward of a contract. The purpose of this database is to provide basic businessinformation and capabilities to the Government. The SAM website can beaccessed at www.sam.gov. Contractors are encouraged to register as soon aspossible. All new contracts can be made ONLY to contractors who areregistered in SAM. This requirement applies to all DoD contract awards.