Downstream Guide Cell

The Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, has a requirement for constructing a Downstream (DS) Guide Cell for Lock & Dam 25.

Solicitation Summary

The Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, has a requirement for constructing a Downstream (DS) Guide Cell for Lock & Dam 25.

Solicitation in a Nutshell

Item

Details
Agency Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District
Solicitation Number W912P925R0001
Status Post-RFP
Solicitation Date 01/07/2025
Award Date 07/23/2025
Contract Ceiling Value $25,000,000
Competition Type  Full and Open / Unrestricted
Type of Award Other
Primary Requirement Architecture Engineering and Construction
Duration 365 Days
Contract Type  Firm Fixed Price
No. of Expected Awards N/A
NAICS Code(s):
237990

Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
Size Standard: $45.0 million annual receipts except $37.0 million annual receipts for Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities
Place of Performance:
  • Winfield, Missouri, United States (Primary)
Opportunity Website: https://sam.gov/opp/fe1185018c7049a4bee174e417b85776/view

Background

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Requirements

The proposed project will consist of the construction of a DS Guide Cell to support the new 1,200-foot-long lock planned at L&D 25 in Winfield, MO. The DS Guide Cell will be approximately 50 ft in diameter and will be constructed using cellular sheet pile and founded on 4 ft diameter drilled shafts socketed into bedrock. Steel plates and horizontal corner protection will be provided at the barge impact zone regions of the guide cell. The traffic faces of the cell will have standard steel wall armor on the portions that are cast-in-place concrete.  The DS Guide cell will consist of providing all plant, labor, and materials, and perform all operations necessary to complete all the work associated with the Guide Cell.  The current Plans & Specs are included with this notice for information purposes. These drawings are at a 65% level of design maturity and are not the final set that will go out with the solicitation. The items of work include but are not limited to:

  • 1. Underwater excavation of site.
  • 2. Drive steel sheet piling for construction of new cell.
  • 3. Install drilled shafts for construction of new cell.
  • 4. Place lifts of concrete in the wet and in the dry inside of sheet piling for new cell and construct reinforced concrete cap at the top of the cell.  Concrete will be transported from plant to riverbank by ready mix trucks and transferred to the cell using barge mounted mixers by pump for a distance of approximately 500 feet.
  • 5. Install steel armor for new cell.
  • 6. Install new ladder and on new cell.
  • 7. Install navigation light on new cell.
  • 8. Place riprap for scour protection.

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