The Department of Defense, through the Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City District, is seeking qualified contractors for levee rehabilitation projects across various districts in Missouri. The procurement aims to identify parties capable of providing construction services that include earthwork, erosion repair, levee surfacing, stone placement, drainage structure installation, and turf establishment. These services are critical for maintaining the integrity of levee systems, which play a vital role in flood risk management and land protection. Interested organizations must submit their capability statements by 12 PM CDT on October 13, 2025, to Nathaniel Leyba at nathaniel.j.leyba@usace.army.mil, with project magnitudes ranging from $250,000 to $5 million and performance periods between 180 to 365 days.

Sources Sought-Levee Rehab Projects.pdf

The Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, is conducting market research through this Sources Sought synopsis for levee repair construction services. The projects involve earthwork, erosion repair, levee surfacing, stone placement, drainage structure installation, and turf establishment at various levee districts in Missouri. Multiple contracts are anticipated to be awarded competitively, with project magnitudes ranging from $250,000 to $5,000,000 and performance periods of 180 to 365 days. This initiative may be set aside for small businesses. Interested organizations must submit capability statements by October 13, 2025, detailing their qualifications, bonding capacity, and relevant project experience to Nathaniel Leyba at nathaniel.j.leyba@usace.army.mil. This is an informational notice, not a request for proposal.

**Sources Sought**

Levee Rehab Projects

INTRODUCTION

The Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support these requirements for construction services for levee repair at the following sites:

Saline Lafayette Levee District

Howard County LD #4

Holt County #10

Saline County LD #2

Corning Levee District

Union Township

Ray-Carroll Bottoms CLD of Carroll

MO Valley Sec 1 & 2 (Marthasville)

MRLS L 246.

The scope of work consists of furnishing all equipment, labor, operators, supervision/site superintendent, quality control, supplies, materials, and incidentals necessary to satisfactorily perform and provide construction to potentially include, but not limited to earthwork operations, bringing in fill and borrow material from a pre-determined site, haul road development, clearing of debris as necessary, erosion repair, rutting repair, levee surfacing, various stone surfacing/placement, installation of stone armored protection, installation and rehabilitation of drainage structures and associated apertures, and establishment of turf for repairs of compromised landside, riverside, and crown levee sections.

The intention is to procure these services on a competitive basis and award multiple separate contracts.

Magnitudes of Each Project

Between $250,000 and $500,000 or

Between $500,000 and $1,000,000 or

Between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000

Estimated Period of Performance

Between 180 to 365 Calendar Days (depending on project)

Places of Performance

Saline County, Missouri

Carroll County, Missouri

Howard County, Missouri

Holt County, Missouri

Warren County, Missouri

Dalton County, Missouri

Chariton County, Missouri

BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES (IN FULL OR IN PART) OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. All Small Business Set-Aside categories will be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

DISCLAIMER

“THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A “REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)” TO BE SUBMITTED. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. RESPONSES WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO THE RESPONDER. NOT RESPONDING TO THIS NOTICE DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) OR INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) OR RFP, IF ANY ISSUED. IF A SOLICITATION IS RELEASED, IT WILL BE SYNOPSIZED ON THE GOVERNMENT-WIDE POINT OF ENTRY (GPE). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF POTENTIAL OFFERORS TO MONITOR THE GPE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMMATION PERTAINING TO THIS REQUIREMENT.”

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) provide services consistent, in scope and scale, with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

ELIGIBILITY

The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 237990 – Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction, with a Small Business Size Standard of $45,000,000.00. The Product Service Code is  Y1PC - Construction of Unimproved Real Property (land). Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond; however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size in their capabilities statement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS (CAPABILITIES STATEMENT)

Interested parties are requested to submit a capabilities statement of no more than ten (10) pages in length in Times New Roman font of not less than 10 pitch. The deadline for response to this request is no later than **12 pm, CDT, 13 October 2025.** All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be e-mailed to Nathaniel Leyba at nathaniel.j.leyba@usace.army.mil.

**This documentation must address at a minimum the following items:**

1. Business name, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address

2. Business UEI number and Cage Code number

3. State specific interest in providing a bid if a solicitation is issued

4. Address capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity

5. Type of business and business size

6. Joint Venture information, existing and potential, if applicable

7. Offeror's Bonding Capability

8. Contractor may submit examples of work done by a subcontractor if that subcontractor

intends to enter into a letter of commitment with the contractor

9. Submit details of a project, either complete or substantially complete within the last 5 years, showing experience in levee work. Details should include project name, date, description of work self-performed and customer served.

The proposed contract actions are anticipated to include tasking that would be accomplished by labor categories that are subject to the Davis Bacon Act.

Upon evaluation of the capability statements, if it is determined that any of these requirements will be solicited as unrestricted competition, the Government intends to evaluate the Small-Business responses and conduct further market research to identify a subcontracting goal.

Your response to this Sources Sought, including any capabilities statement, shall be electronically submitted to the Contract Specialist, Nathaniel Leyba, in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email nathaniel.j.leyba@usace.army.mil.

All data received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government.

No phone calls will be accepted.

All questions must be submitted to the contract specialist identified above. The Government is not committed nor obligated to pay for the information provided, and no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought.

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