Big John Salvage Superfund Site Non-Time-Critical Removal Actions for the River and Upland Areas

August 2026 Sources Sought Big John Salvage Hoult Road Superfund Site, Fairmont, Marion County, WV USACE is reactivating this Sources Sought Notice to conduct updated market research. USACE continues to track all responses received from interested firms during the initial 2023 posting. New interested firms are highly encouraged to submit capabilities statements. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Market Research ONLY. NO AWARD will be made from this Sources Sought Notice. NO SOLICITATION OR SCOPE OF WORK IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME, and therefore do NOT request a copy of a Solicitation or Scope of Work. Potential offerors having the skills and capabilities necessary to perform the described requirement are invited to provide feedback via email to Frank J. D Andrea at frank.j.dandrea@usace.army.mil, and Jenna Grainer at jenna.n.grainer@usace.army.mil by 02 September 2026 at 11am EST. All responses will be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy for a potential future acquisition. We encourage all firms to respond, including but not limited to, HUB Zone, 8(a), SDVOSB, Small and Large Business. The NAICS Code is 562910. The size standard is 1000 employees. The sequencing of Non-Time-Critical Removal Actions (NTCRAs) for the BJS Site will most likely be the River Area first followed by the Uplands Area. Therefore, the Government anticipates two separate contracts, one for each area. The construction project magnitude for the River Area is estimated between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000. It is anticipated a solicitation will be released in/around early Fiscal Year 2027. The construction project magnitude for the Uplands Area is estimated between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be released in/around early Fiscal Year 2027. SUBMISSION OF REPONSES: Those interested in providing a response to this Sources Sought Notice for the BJS River and/or Uplands Areas should limit their responses to 10 pages and shall include the following information: Potential offeror s capability to meet requirements demonstrating landfill cap installation experience; Potential offeror s capability to meet requirements demonstrating environmental dredging experience; Potential offeror s capability to perform a contract of this complexity and magnitude; Potential offerors are requested to submit no more than four (4) projects each of similar scope and complexity to the River and/or Uplands Area performed within the last ten (10) years. Include a brief description of the project, customer name, timelines of performance, percentage of work performed, and dollar value of the project; and Potential offerors can provide supplemental information listing previous Government contract experience and/or Superfund experience that is not similar to the project but demonstrates prime contractor experience working with USACE and/or EPA on Superfund projects. This information should only include Project title, Government Agency, scope of Superfund project, year completed, and the final value. Potential offerors shall include a cover letter listing company name, cage code, business size status (and each socio-economic group if applicable). Potential offerors bonding capacity All potential offerors interested in pursuing a contract with the Federal Government and US Army Corps of Engineers must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at https://www.sam.gov. Please do not submit answers to questions posed under the 2023 Sources Sought Notice. This is a request for ONLY capabilties statements. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ July 2023 Sources Sought Notice W912P423S0004 Big John Salvage Hoult Road Superfund Site, Fairmont, Marion County, WV This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Market Research ONLY to determine the availability of firms for construction services as detailed below. The Government is also requesting information from industry as it relates to this project as noted below. NO AWARD will be made from this Sources Sought Notice. NO SOLICITATION OR SCOPE OF WORK IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME, and therefore do NOT request a copy of a Solicitation or Scope of Work. Potential offerors having the skills and capabilities necessary to perform the described requirement are invited to provide feedback via email to Frank J. D Andrea at frank.j.dandrea@usace.army.mil, and Jenna Grainer at jenna.n.grainer@usace.army.mil. All responses will be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy for a potential future acquisition. We encourage all firms to respond, including but not limited to, HUB Zone, 8(a), SDVOSB, Small and Large Business. The NAICS Code is 562910. The size standard is 750 employees. The sequencing of Non-Time-Critical Removal Actions (NTCRAs) for the BJS Site will most likely be the River Area first followed by the Uplands Area since the design plan and specification packages will be completed in May 2024 and August 2024, respectively. Therefore, the Government anticipates two separate contracts, one for each area. The construction project magnitude for the River Area is estimated between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000. It is anticipated a solicitation will be released around September 2024. The construction project magnitude for the Uplands Area is estimated between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be released around January 2025. GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENTS: The Big John Salvage Hoult Road (BJS) Superfund Site is a 38-acre former industrial property in Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. Approximately 20 acres of the BJS Site were used for coal tar refining, salvage operations, and waste disposal. The remaining 18 acres includes steep, wooded hillsides with a low-lying drainage area that discharges to the Monongahela River. The property is now vacant land owned by Fairmont Coke Works Site Custodial Trust and Vertellus Specialties Environmental Response Trust (VSERT). The BJS Site is divided into the Uplands and River Areas. The primary contaminants on the 38-acre Uplands Area are metals, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and semi-volatile organic compounds (sVOCs) in soil, drainageway sediment, and groundwater. The primary contaminants in the River Area are polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Monongahela River sediment. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an Action Memorandum in 2010 for NTCRAs at the BJS Superfund Site, which was amended in 2023. The selected response for the River Area of the BJS Site includes reinforcing unstable riverbanks, mechanically dredging approximately 42,000 in situ cubic yards of contaminated Monongahela River sediment over a 6.4-acre area of the riverbed, dewatering/stabilization of dredged sediment, water treatment/discharge, backfilling, sediment sampling, and transportation of material for off-site disposal in an appropriately permitted facility. Typical slopes on the riverbank approach and exceed 40 degrees with numerous actively eroded areas having subvertical slopes. This results in potential instability within 10 to 20 feet of the water s edge along most of the eastern bank in its existing condition. Since any removal of soil or sediment along the bank would lead to failure of the slopes, stabilization measures are required to enable the proposed dredging along the bank. In areas where satisfactory stability cannot be accomplished with grading, a structural measure including a combi wall or reinforcement piles will be required to enable dredging. Approximately 135 cubic yards of debris is comingled in contaminated river sediment that will need to be handled separately. Additionally, eight utilities were identified in or near the potential river excavation footprint: two water utility crossings, one sewer utility crossing, one aerial power line crossing, and four gas line crossings. Slope stabilization and subsequent mechanical dredging must be water-based operations to the extent practicable with minimal spillage and turbidity. The selected contractor will need to meet dredge depth target elevations ranging from 0 to 13 feet below grade. Shallow sediment (0 to 6 inches) exhibits larger grain sizes (i.e., gravels and sands) than deeper sediment. Sediments downstream from the source term are approximately 84% fines, whereas sediment near the source term is roughly 30% fines. Turbidity monitoring and control will be required during the duration of the project. A post dredging bathymetry survey and confirmation sampling are required. Dredged areas would be restored by placing a layer of sand as a residual management layer to control residual contamination and promote natural recovery of sediment. An erosion protection layer would be placed over this area and post-removal elevations within the excavation and restoration area will be restored to pre-removal elevations (i.e., no net fill to river bottom and…