Purchase Order 140L4220P0028

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $231,674.26 firm fixed-price purchase order to Anthropological Research LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business, to conduct an ethnographic study of the Alpine Loop in Gunnison, Colorado. This sole-source contract was based on the company's established relationship with the Southern Ute Tribe and its capability to perform the required work, which includes literature review, tribal representative interviews, field visits, and the production of a final report with management recommendations. Anthropological Research LLC has also participated in federal grant-funded projects as a subrecipient, collaborating with the University of California, Los Angeles on an ethnographic study at Petrified Forest National Park to support the National Park Service's goals for management, interpretation, and preservation of the park's archaeological landscape.