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Location
United States / Americas
Project record
Newark Bay FY26 federal navigation maintenance dredging
Ken Lund / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0; Newark Bay location context, not FY26 dredging progress
New York District has put six Newark Bay dredging areas into the base bid for IFB W912DS26BA027. They total 237,945 cubic yards across the Main Channel 50-foot reach and Port Newark Channel 40-foot reach. Another 196,485 cubic yards sits in five optional dredging items, with a separate 300-short-ton debris option. Bids are due on 31 July 2026.
Segment
Dredging and waterways
Status
IFB W912DS26BA027 open; 237,945 CY in the base dredging CLINs; bids due 31 July 2026; no award or mobilisation recorded / Confirmed
Last checked
20 July 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Dredging and waterways is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District
- Delivery parties
- No contractor selected in the reviewed solicitation
- Contract route
- Unrestricted, full-and-open sealed invitation for bids with a 10% HUBZone price evaluation preference. Bidders must price all base and optional items. The solicitation says award will be based on the lowest total price across CLINs 0001 through 0014 from a responsible and responsive bidder. The USD 25 million to USD 100 million figure is the government's project-magnitude range, not a contract award or budget confirmation.
- Execution window
- Bids are due at 14:00 EDT on 31 July 2026. The solicitation requires the contractor to begin within five calendar days after notice to proceed and allows 108 calendar days for the basic work. Exercised dredging options add one calendar day per 2,500 cubic yards and are consecutive to the basic work. No award, notice to proceed, mobilisation or accepted programme is public.
- Works package
- Base dredging comprises 124,380 CY and 8,660 CY plus three smaller Main Channel 50-foot areas of 1,765 CY, 465 CY and 1,200 CY, together with 101,475 CY in the Port Newark Channel 40-foot reach. The 237,945-CY base scope includes dewatering, offloading, processing, transport and placement at contractor-furnished, state-permitted, government-approved upland sites. Five optional dredging areas total 196,485 CY, and a sixth option covers up to 300 short tons of debris.
- Marine interfaces
- The work sits inside an operating federal navigation system serving Port Newark and the wider New York and New Jersey harbour. Delivery has to coordinate 40-foot and 50-foot dredge planes, one foot of allowable overdepth, active vessel traffic, mechanical dredging controls, material offloading and dewatering, permitted upland placement, black-box monitoring and pre- and post-dredge hydrographic evidence.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- The base quantity is obtained by adding the six dredging CLINs, not by copying a procurement-page summary. Options could add about 83% to the dredging volume, but the solicitation says they are subject to available funds and government discretion. No bidder, contractor, contract value, disposal site, plant spread or start date should be inferred before the public bid and award record appears.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogUSACE issued the sealed-bid solicitation
The IFB fixed the six-area, 237,945-CY base dredging scope, separately funded options, 31 July bid close and 108-day basic period without identifying an award or contractor.
SourceThe district published its annual Newark Bay maintenance notice
The notice described about 830,000 CY across several channels and annual cycles, environmental-bucket dredging and upland placement. It sets the broader programme context but not the FY26 IFB base quantity.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- Solicitation amendments and the controlling bid deadline
- Public bid opening, bid abstract and apparent low bidder
- Award, contract value and responsibility determination
- Accepted 108-day baseline programme after notice to proceed
- Approved upland placement and material-processing sites
- Dredge, scow, offloading and dewatering plant mobilisation
- Pre-dredge survey and quantity reconciliation by CLIN
- Black-box monitoring, placement records and environmental compliance
- Post-dredge survey, paid quantities and USACE acceptance
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 4
- Maintenance Dredging of Newark Bay, Federal Navigation Channel - W912DS26BA027 SAM.gov / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Updated 2 July 2026
- Newark Bay 40- and 50-foot reaches maintenance-dredging public notice U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, 10 March 2026
- New York District controlling-depth reports U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Current index reviewed 20 July 2026
- Newark Bay Main Channel condition survey U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Current survey reviewed 20 July 2026