Project record

Newark Bay FY26 federal navigation maintenance dredging

Aerial view across Newark Bay showing the waterway, port terminals and the bridge crossing

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.

Project signal

Tender in United States

Read the base and options separately. The six base dredging CLINs are the priced minimum alongside mobilisation and monitoring. The dredging options depend on funds and government discretion, while the debris option is tied to work in the Port Newark Pierhead Channel. This federal navigation procurement is also separate from Port Authority Contract MFP-364.003 for maintenance dredging at four marine terminals.

Current status IFB W912DS26BA027 open; 237,945 CY in the base dredging CLINs; bids due 31 July 2026; no award or mobilisation recorded Source confidence Confirmed

Location

United States / Americas

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

Evidence reviewed

20 July 2026

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Project anatomy

Scope, counterparties, and execution logic

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 read
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.
Next milestone
Any amendment to the 31 July bid close, followed by the public bid opening or abstract, apparent low bidder, responsibility review, award and contract value, then notice to proceed, named upland placement route and identifiable plant mobilisation.

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USACE 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.

Read controlling source

The 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.

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Delivery watch

Evidence needed next

Any amendment to the 31 July bid close, followed by the public bid opening or abstract, apparent low bidder, responsibility review, award and contract value, then notice to proceed, named upland placement route and identifiable plant mobilisation.

Decision watchpoints

  • 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

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Evidence reviewed 20 July 2026 Sources in this record 4

Source record

SAM.gov controls the current procurement state and deadline. The searchable solicitation attachment supplies the CLIN quantities, 108-day basic period, option rules, competition terms and magnitude range. The New York District public notice describes a broader annual Newark Bay maintenance programme of about 830,000 CY across several channels and annual cycles; that programme quantity is not this contract's base bid. The district's controlling-depth and survey records provide channel-condition evidence rather than award or production evidence.

Phase: tender. Evidence reviewed: 20 July 2026.

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