The Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Southeast, has a requirement for the design build of a Lighterage and Small Craft Facility at Blount Island, Jacksonville, Florida.

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The project involves constructing the first of two primary facilities for maintaining the Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS). The lighterage require cyclical maintenance, which takes place at Navy Point on Blount Island. The facility is required to support lighterage maintenance, operational testing, storage, and staging. This includes the ability to transfer lighterage between water and land in order to test newly maintained craft in the water and to transfer craft to maintenance facilities, both on and off site. Project requirements include:

Main Components

• One General Purpose Berthing Wharf for berthing up to 15 total Lighterage
• Three access trestles to the Berthing Wharf, two for vehicles and one for personnel
• Lighterage Lift-Launch Pier (LLP), which includes two parallel finger piers to support the existing 150-ton Travel Lift and future 200-ton Travel Lift. East finger pier shall be designed to support vehicular access. The area north of the slip to be designed to support a 300-ton crawler crane and loaded transporter.
• Floating dock to berth two small watercrafts with floating jet dock
• Sand Landing Craft Ramp
• Two-story Waterfront Operations Building to contain restrooms, utility rooms, and second story Harbormaster Office

Support Components

• Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP)
• Site work
• Paved parking for two (2) police vehicles
• Paved parking for thirty-eight (38) private vehicles serving wharf (including one (1) accessible space)
• Paved parking for six (6) government owned vehicles
• Pierhead Way extension
• Cul-de-sac
• Reinforced pavement for crane hardstand area
• Shore protection
• Concrete approach to LLP
• Access road
• Sand ramp
• 1000-pound jib crane near the east end of the Lighterage Wharf
• Electrical utilities to support the project include primary and secondary electrical distribution system, transformer, site security lighting, navigation lighting, fire alarms system, telephone lines, and fiber optic data lines.
• Mechanical utilities to support the project include sanitary sewer and lift station, potable water, fire protection water, fire hydrants, compressed air, and hot water for restrooms.
• Facilities associated with temporary relocation of existing Afloat Staging Point (ASP) and police boat jet dock for use during construction. Facilities include: installation of four (4) new 24” square prestressed concrete guide piles; fabrication and installation of four (4) new galvanized steel guide frames with UHMW-PE rollers mounted to the ASP; installation of a temporary access walkway/gangway providing landside access to the ASP; and installation of a temporary landside concrete foundation at the temporary access walkway/gangway. At the completion of Lighterage Wharf construction, The Contractor will remove the temporary ASP guide piles, gangway, and landside gangway foundation. The ASP and police boat jet dock will be removed/relocated by Blount Island Command (BIC).