The Virtual Industry Day Meeting for the USACE National Dredging Center will occur on 09 Sept 2026 at 13:00 PM EST via Teams. All interested dredging companies are encouraged to attend.
During the meeting, we will be discussing three potential planned national contract acquisition strategies.
1. Hopper Contracts: The National Dredging Center anticipates awarding multiple maintenance dredging and beach renourishment projects as consolidated contracts. See the attached spreadsheet Attachment 2 for proposed pairings for consolidated procurement packages. We anticipate the pairings of the attached projects and encourage feedback from industry on any of our projected pairings.
2. Scope Dredge to Budget: Optimize the Budget in terms of quality, scope, durability with innovative betterments and betterments within the budget. The goal of the scope-dredge to budget is maximizing achievable scope within a target budget that will be provided in the solicitation. The National Dredging Team intends to issue 1 solicitation for the Galveston/Houston Area of Responsibility.
3. National Small Business Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC):
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) executes construction contracts for regular, reoccurring, and emergency National Enterprise Dredging requirements at various coastal harbors, inland rivers, canals, and connecting channels throughout the United States. Individual projects are typically annual requirements and may utilize mechanical, hydraulic, or a combination of dredging equipment and techniques with activities to include but not limited to maintenance and new work dredging, dredged material placement, and other activities such as Confined Disposal Facility (CDF), Dredged Material Disposal Facility (DMDF), or upland containment facility maintenance, groundskeeping, other earthwork at placement sites, surveying, or other work connected with dredging and placement requirements. Task orders issued under this MATOC will require the contractor to mobilize dredge plant and support vessels to the project location, perform dredging as shown on the respective plan(s), place dredged material—which may include beach nourishment, open-water placement, CDFs, DMDFs, beneficial use, or alternative placement strategies as indicated in individual task orders—and demobilize once complete.
The maximum ordering capacity for the 5-year ordering period of the MATOC and maximum task order amounts are TBD.