Prequalification of Sources, Levee Repair Construction Contracts, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

***Revision 2, 12 May 2026: Changes made to the following sections: Responses Section changed Constance Ellard to Nicole Parker ***Revision 1, 12 May 2025: Changes made to the following sections: "QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT", Paragraph 1. Experience "RESPONSES", Paragraph 1. Experience ANNOUNCEMENT This is a PREQUALIFICATION OF SOURCES announcement, issued in accordance with DFARS 236.272 and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Acquisition Instruction (UAI) 5136.272. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow up information requests. Respondents will be notified of the results of the prequalification process. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Omaha District is seeking to create Prequalified Sources List (PSL) for levee repairs in the states of Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska. As a result of flooding in the spring of 2024, there are damages to 30 federal and non-federal levee systems with over 500 miles of earthen levees with the Omaha District. The levees are in the Missouri River Basin on the Missouri River and its tributary rivers and creeks within the Omaha District. The attached list of projects entitled PSL Projects Missouri River Basin (Attachment 1) contains a description of each planned levee repair project. The majority of levee repair construction shall be self-performed by the prime contractors under this prequalification. The objective of the PSLs is to identify and select responding firms that demonstrate the capacity and capability to successfully support critical levee repairs without relying entirely on subcontractors. Subcontracting will be allowed, but will not be part of the prequalification process. Identifying and selecting prequalified sources will be based solely on the responding firm's ability to meet the specific criteria that assess the firm's bonding capability, previous experience completing construction of levee projects or cut/fill grading operations, and past performance. The selection process will be objective in that responding firms either meet or fail to meet the criteria. Failure to meet any one of the criteria will result in non-selection. The criteria ensure selection of clearly qualified contractors with experience and capability relevant to the anticipated requirements, provide competition, and minimize subjectivity in USACE's assessment. The PSL will be available for use while other acquisitions are underway for similar requirements. The PSL will be reviewed annually to ensure a legitimate need exists. Presently, USACE anticipates at least 30 contract actions during the next 2 years. As such, it is likely that a legitimate need will continue for the next 24 months. Magnitudes of disclosure will be provided at the time of solicitation for each project. After the PSL is established, USACE intends to proceed by issuing solicitations using FAR Part 14 procedures (i.e., sealed bidding). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for procurements using the Prequalified Sources List is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Construction, which has a small business size standard of $45M. BONDING REQUIREMENTS Pursuant to the Miller Act, performance and payment bonds shall be provided for each contract awarded under the PSL. Typically, Notice to Proceed (NTP) will not be issued until after the successful bidder provides sufficient bonding. However, in some time-sensitive situations, USACE may issue NTP at award, which will be stated in the solicitation. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS To be considered qualified for the PSLs, firms must meet the following minimum requirements 1. Experience: Proven competence as the prime contractor performing construction of at least three earthwork projects or cut/fill grading operations including either levee construction, levee degrading and reconstruction, and/or large scale cut/fill projects. Each project submitted for experience must have included a minimum cut/fill quantity of 10,000 cubic yards of material. Each project should have a value of at least $750,000. Relevant experience includes hauling/placement and engineered compaction of soil/sands material, hauling/placement of aggregate material, hauling/placement of rip rap material, placement of geotextile/geogrid, and other engineered slope stabilization solutions, sheet pile construction, seeding, haul material, haul road construction, and/or mass cut/fill operations requiring grading of material. (***Revision 1***) Two (2) of the three (3) projects submitted shall show a minimum selective placement per project of 500 tons of riprap on slopes up to 1V:1.5H with a D50 greater or equal than 12-inches. Selective placement includes placing riprap on an underlying bedding or geotextile without disturbing/shifting the bedding or geotextile.*** 2. Past Performance: Information that demonstrates satisfactory ratings by the client for each of the projects cited in Experience above that indicates a recommendation to use the contractor for future projects. A CPARS evaluation or its equivalent from the client meets this requirement. The firm's self-assessment of its own performance is not requested and will not be substituted for the client's assessment. Additionally, past performance may be based on the Contracting Officer s or Contracting Officers Representatives knowledge of and previous experience with similar purchases acquired. In addition to the above information required to be submitted with the proposal, the Government may review any other sources of information for evaluating past performance. Other sources may include, but are not limited to, and any information available to the Government, past performance information retrieved through the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), and any other known sources not provided by the offeror. Past Performance may also be evaluated based on information about contractor performance from existing performance documentation from any past contracts. Additional past performance information from other contracts may be considered by the qualification authority. This information could include contract terminations, safety violations, cure notices, tax delinquencies, non-compliance with subcontracting plans, compliance with labor laws, assessment of liquidated damages, and adversarial management practices or behaviors as viewed by the client. USACE reserves the right to consider past performance information from any source it deems relevant. 3. Bonding: A firm must have a single bonding capability of $5 million and aggregate of $10 million SET-ASIDES All firms submitting documentation meeting the standards for prequalification will be placed on the PSL. However, placement on the PSL does not guarantee a firm will be solicited for every requirement. The contracting officer will consider the following set- asides: Small Business Set-Aside: Pursuant to FAR Part 19, the contracting officer may elect to set-aside any solicitation within the PSL for a specific small business category. Small business classification will be determined by the representations and certifications in SAM for NAICS 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Construction. Local Area Set-Aside: Pursuant to FAR Part 26.2, the contracting officer may elect to set-aside any solicitation within the PSL for local firms residing in or primarily doing business in the disaster area. For the State of Iowa, the disaster area includes the following counties: Cherokee, Harrison, Lyon, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Scott, Shelby, Sioux, and Woodbury. For the State of Nebraska, the disaster area includes the following counties/areas: Boyd, Burt, Butler, Clay, Colfax, Dakota, Dawson, Dodge, Douglas, Dundy, Fillmore, Hamilton, Hayes, Hitchcock, Holt, Howard, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson, Nance, Nemaha, Platte, Polk, Red Willow, Richardson, Sarpy, Saunders, Scotts Bluff, Thomas, and Washington. If additional counties are declared disaster areas for the spring 2024 flood event, they will be considered to meet the definition of the local area for the purposes of this prequalification notice. If a firm did not reside in one of the disaster areas listed above as of June 19, 2024 and requests to be classified as local, it must submit compelling evidence that its primary business is derived from the disaster area. A mere statement to this effect or incomplete calculations are inadequate. The contracting officer may elect to utilize both local area and small business set-asides in the same solicitation within the PSL. The contracting officer may also elect to advertise solicitations for levee repairs contracts outside of the PSL entirely. These decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis with considerations including (but not limited to) adequate competition, small business goals, number of small business bidders…