Dredging
Great Lakes wins New Haven dredging with separate delay options
USACE awarded New Haven improvement dredging to Great Lakes on 20 August 2026. The federal announcement records USD 68.8692 million awarded and obligated; SAM records USD 69.4692 million for the base and all options. The USD 600,000 difference exactly matches sixteen coordination-zone delay days in the bid schedule.
Confirmed award and the two published value bases
The separate SAM award notice names Great Lakes, the 20 August award date and USD 69.4692 million base-and-all-options value. The 24 August federal contract announcement records USD 68.8692 million awarded and obligated and an estimated 31 March 2028 completion. Both original public browser bodies were read on 23 October. The certified two-page July bid abstract was completely downloaded, read and visually checked on both pages; its extensions reproduce all four bids and the government estimate. The 39-page 30 June 2025 USACE planning deck was completely downloaded and text-read, with six relevant pages visually reviewed. Its approach depths, windows and survey requirements retain that planning date. Current NTP, actual mobilisation, accepted quantities and cash payments remain separate evidence tasks.
Seasonal plant costs and coordination work
The bid gives the delivery team separate prices for ordinary material, habitat sand, drilled and blasted rock, two seasonal plant moves and coordination work. Great Lakes' second-season mobilisation and demobilisation entry is USD 7.989 million, compared with USD 3.75 million for the first. Receiving-site access, early section releases and survey handover affect the work each seasonal spread can perform.
Evidence conclusion
Option reconciliation and section handover
Great Lakes is now the confirmed awarded prime. The arithmetic connects the announced obligation with the base and coordination dredging options; the USD 600,000 delay item completes the all-options total. The executed schedule determines exercised options and the trigger for a payable delay day. Section quantities, placement receipts, survey handover and actual payments retain their own dated records.
Outstanding evidence
- Executed award schedule and coordination-option selection
- NTP and accepted two-season programme
- Current pre-dredge survey and released section quantities
- Named dredge, scow and rock-removal plant
- Receiving-site access, acceptance and material receipts
- Coordination-zone release and work-delay payment trigger
- Multibeam section acceptance and seasonal corrections
- Certified amounts, actual payments and operating release
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Sources used 7
- New Haven Harbor Improvement Dredging W912WJ26BA012 and Bid Abstract SAM.gov / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Updated 20 July 2026
- USACE and Connecticut Port Authority launch New Haven Harbor Improvement Project U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, 22 April 2026
- New Haven Harbor Improvement Project Industry Day and supplemental data package U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, Current page reviewed 19 July 2026
- New Haven Harbor Navigation Project U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, Current page reviewed 19 July 2026
- New Haven Harbor improvement award W912WJ26CA017 SAM.gov / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Award 20 August 2026; published 15 September 2026; reviewed 23 October 2026
- Contracts for 24 August 2026: New Haven award and obligation U.S. Department of War, 24 August 2026
- New Haven Harbor Improvement Industry Day presentation U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, 30 June 2025 planning briefing