About this opportunity
AI summaryThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, seeks information from qualified business concerns to perform the Mill Creek Section 205 Flood Risk Management Improvements project. The scope encompasses flood-risk management repairs across the Mill Creek channel in Walla Walla County, Washington, including raising and enlarging levees, placing gabion revetment and riprap, constructing and stabilizing concrete walls, building an access ramp, and reinforcing support walls. Work will occur across both Federal and private property. This sources-sought notice serves market research purposes to evaluate capabilities and consider potential small-business set-asides under NAICS code 237990. The estimated magnitude of construction ranges between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000, and the future contract will require full performance and payment bonds along with a bid guarantee. Interested firms must email capability statements, details of three relevant past projects, bonding capacity, business socioeconomic status, and SAM registration details to Chandra Crow by 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time on December 7, 2026.
Scope of work
- Raising existing levees by up to approximately three feet at five locations
- Landward enlargement of levees while maintaining 2H:1V side slopes
- Placement of additional gabion revetment at one location
- Placement of additional riprap at transition areas, including ramp-to-levee and levee-to-bridge-abutment transitions
- Construction of new concrete walls and/or raising of existing concrete walls at levee and bridge-transition locations
- Construction of a concrete access ramp
- Removal of a ceiling section in a covered portion of the existing concrete channel
- Stabilization of two existing concrete-channel-wall sections using soil anchors and shotcrete facing
Minimum qualifications
- Capability to perform work under NAICS 237990 with small-business size standard of $45,000,000 in average annual receipts
- At least three projects completed within the past seven years similar in scope, complexity, and magnitude
- Active System for Award Management (SAM) registration and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI)
Documents to include with your response
- Capability Statement
- Relevant Experience documentation for at least three projects completed within the past seven years
- Single-project bonding capacity and aggregate bonding capacity information
- Business Size and Socioeconomic Status identification
- Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and SAM registration confirmation
Key dates
- Responses due
- 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, December 7, 2026
How to submit
- Method
- Instructions
- Submit responses by email to Chandra Crow, Contract Specialist, at the designated email address.
Contract details
- Estimated value
- between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000
- Place of performance
- In and near the Cities of Walla Walla and College Place, Walla Walla County, Washington
- Insurance and bonding
- One hundred percent performance and payment bonds will be required, and a bid guarantee will be required in accordance with RFO FAR Clause 52.228-1.
- Funding
- Section 205
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- W912EF-27-R-SS02
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Buying office
- Dept of the Army › US Army Engineer District Walla WAL
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Responses due
- Dec 7, 2026, 6:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Nov 5, 2026
- NAICS
- 237990 · Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
- Product/service code
- Y1PC
- Place of performance
- 99362
- Contracting contact
- Chandra Crow
CHANDRA.D.CROW@USACE.ARMY.MIL
5095277202 - Additional contact
- Cynthia Jacobsen
cynthia.h.jacobsen@usace.army.mil
5095277214
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.
Incumbent and award research
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Market context
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